I couldn’t help myself. I was going to approach this as a commentary, a think piece. I spent an hour researching other three-player groupings of stars in NBA history … making charts and compiling stax … my explanatory-journalism approach to LeBron James and the Miami Heat fiasco … and then I just went off, instead.
I […]

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Some people can’t pass a mirror without taking a glance. Some of us like to look at old photos, when we were younger and other people were still around.
Those are big topics.
This is a small pleasure that I would like to share with you. A look back.

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I was up at the crack of dawn to follow Game 7 of the Lakers and Celtics … and as you all know … it was scary for quite some time before Derek Fisher his the three that tied it at 64-64, and after that didn’t most Lakers fans have a sense that Kobe & […]

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I celebrated, two weeks ago, while traveling in Italy, the fact that I would not be able to see the Lakers and Celtics on live television in the NBA Finals. Because 1) it would agitate me and 2) these things usually end so badly for the Lakers.
That does not mean I haven’t kept close track […]

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As we mentioned earlier, it’s a good thing we’re not watching the NBA Finals live. Too stressful. Anyway, it starts at about 3 a.m. local time, and that’s late, even on vacation.
However, we have one observation about Game 2 that may be some encouragement for glum Lakers fans:
And it is: 11-for-16.
That is what the Celtics […]

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Thank goodness I won’t be able to see the Lakers and Celtics.
Not that I don’t care. Oh, on the contrary. I care scads. Tons. Oodles.
It’s just that I come from that generation of Lakers fans/followers who remember the 1960s … and far too well, when it comes to the Lakers and Celtics. Does 0-6 in […]

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So much for the invincible Orlando Magic. Eight-and-oh in the playoffs … but against whom?
Overmatched Charlotte, which is built around … Steven Jackson? Gerald Wallace? A sweep of those guys, but so what? (And one game was decided by four points and two by nine. Yeah, a butt-kicking.)
Then the Atlanta Hawks, nice team in the […]

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So, roll out of bed on the other side of the world, and there is the final score:
Boston 120, Cleveland 88?
Boston 120, Cleveland 88!
One of the bigger surprises in sports since I got here, in October. Absolutely did not see this coming. Even after the Celtics won Game 4 to even the series at 2-2, […]

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I’m on record with my sad decision that the Lakers won’t defend their NBA championship this year. They don’t beat Cleveland in the Finals.
But these Lakers are shaky enough that their fans ought to be worried … right now.
That is the Oklahoma City Thunder coming to town, and they have the league’s leading scorer (no, […]

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As I write this, many of the people I know back in the States are watching the Lakers play the Celtics. In Boston. If I were on that side of the Atlantic, I would be watching too. I grew up watching that rivalry, and suffering through it. Jerry West, Chick Hearn and I … well, […]

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