The day after The Decision, that contemporary monument to bad ideas (New Coke, anyone?), I offered to write a commentary/analysis on LeBron James’s decision to commit to Miami and abandon Cleveland. I ended up trashing LeBron and The Decision … in a column I linked to a few days ago.  But before I realized I […]

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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. […]

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LeBron James for the first seven years of his NBA career has been an interesting case. It would be easy to dislike the guy. So very, very full of himself. So in our faces, commercially. That whole “global icon” hubris. He is almost inescapable, but not in the “aw, heck, we love the big lug” […]

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We in Abu Dhabi, on the other side of the world, have been following the Saga of LeBron James. Riveting stuff, right? Where will the world’s greatest player never to have won a championship play next year? And does he have space left anywhere on his body (that isn’t his face) for a tattoo perhaps […]

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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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It’s chaos over there in the States, right? Owners and general managers ricocheting around the country chasing LeBron James and the other NBA free agents as of 12:01 EDT Thursday, trying to bundle up enough cash to sign Bron-Bron and all those other guys. We here at The National, in the United Arab Emirates, are […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Just sayin’. No baseball team ever had come back from a 3-0 deficit in games to win a playoff series … until the Boston Red Sox memorably did it against the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series in 2004. But six years later, fans in Boston may not be celebrating that precedent-setting […]

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