This is an interesting concept. A writer who is perhaps Australian, now in New York, who appears to have done mostly business writing over the past few years … has attempted to explain the Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry to readers of The Guardian, one of Britain’s quality newspapers. The piece has some nice […]

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It is not clear to me where this idea originated, but it’s ridiculous: Kevin Durant ready to sign on with the Golden State Warriors as a free agent this summer. I know this is a slow time on the U.S. sports calendar, and we might be willing to talk about really stupid ideas, given we […]

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Talking about the weekend that just passed. The one after the Super Bowl but before pitchers and catchers report. It is a weekend, in American sports, anyway, that has pretty much nothing that matters. Or it seems that way to me. A former colleague and I had a bit of a discussion on this — […]

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Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors went up against the NBA’s best defensive team tonight, and that San Antonio team is also the clear second-best team in the league … and Curry and the Warriors destroyed the Spurs, 120-90. Curry played only 29 minutes but scored 37 points on 12-for-20 shooting, including 6-for-9 accuracy […]

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The NBA has taken over Christmas Day. Not long ago, this was a day ceded to second-tier college football bowl games. The Blue-Gray game was the first thing up. Maybe the Sun Bowl in the afternoon. Nothing that mattered much. For decades, the NBA didn’t do much to take the day away from the random […]

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In the previous post I fretted over the possibility that the Golden State Warriors could break the Los Angeles Lakers’ record NBA winning streak of 33 games. Within hours of that post going up … the Warriors lost, for the first time this season. And I will take some credit for that.

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Kobe Bryant’s decision on Sunday to announce his retirement, effective at the end of the current season, was timely and proper and even a bit quixotic, coming as it did in the form of a poem written by the player and posted on a somewhat obscure players forum. What he addressed in those words was […]

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How many more games do the Lakers give Kobe Bryant to demonstrate he has something left? How many more games does Kobe give Kobe? He was 1-for-14 with four points last night in the 111-77 humiliation at the hands of the champion Golden State Warriors, who set an NBA record by winning their 16th game […]

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A topic that comes up, eventually, with everyone who plays fantasy baseball or football or basketball or soccer … When a player from your fantasy team meets up with someone from the team you support … to which side do you focus your psychic energy? Or, making it simple, whom do you want to come […]

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“God hates (fill in city name)” was a meme Bill Simmons worked into the ground during his writing days. He could hardly go a month without revisiting the topic, tweaking it slightly, looking at it from another perspective. Sure, it usually came out with Cleveland and Buffalo near the top, as “most benighted sports cities” […]

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