The sports world spent most of two decades witnessing the savage competitiveness that was Michael Jordan and, frankly, not only enjoyed it, but also idolized it. When he was a player and got that nasty, comic book-superhero look in his eyes while staring down a challenger, everyone – with the notable exception of opponents – loved it. That includes, you’ve got to think, all current players. For Jordan, games were combat, a test of wills, and he elevated them to levels that
Archives for November 2011
Lockout prediction: Deal within 36 hours
NEW YORK — My gut feeling: We will have a settlement of the NBA lockout within 36 hours. Why? Because, folks, they are 99 percent of the way there. (You don’t pile all of the kids into the station wagon, tell them you are driving to DisneyWorld and then stop in the outskirts of Orlando and say you are turning around.) The owners are at 50 percent on the revenue split. The players are at 51 — or ” fifty plus one” as
Kobe Bryant wants another meeting with owners
Kudos to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports for landing the interview of the day: “As the NBA and Players Association trudge toward a possible doomsday deadline, Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant urged owners to meet with the players union before Wednesday and spare the league from “spiraling into a nuclear winter.” “We need for the two sides to get together again before Wednesday, because we’re too close to getting a deal done,” Bryant told Yahoo! Sports on Monday. “We need
If David Stern tosses crumbs to the players …
… at a true 11th-hour negotiating session Wednesday, then there might be something that the union’s executive committee puts forward for a vote. That’s my take. So phooey on you, Mark Heisler, for calling yourself the last optimist. I had more to say about how I see the endgame possibly playing out in a drive-time interview I did today on “The Mitch Albom Show” on WJR-760 AM in Detroit. Click here to listen to the interview.
Heisler Column: If this is symbolic, which is Beavis and which is Butthead?
Even if the NBA makes a deal today — as I always thought it would in time to play by Dec. 1 — I’m past congratulating anyone for their part in this farce. I’m filing this as written before they do a deal, go to war, or whatever. ___ Now that we know what the lockout is—a symbolic battle, rather than one over dollars, since that has been essentially settled—I have one question for David Stern and his owners and Billy Hunter
Team USA exhibition against France in jeopardy
From FIBA.com: “Speaking to French sports daily L’Equipe this week, French Basketball Federation (FFBB) President Jean-Pierre Siutat gave an idea of what the men’s national team’s schedule of warm-up games will be like. “The calendar has yet to be finalised, but it looks as though we will go and play Spain in early July and we have agreed on a return leg in France, in theory on 15 July,” he said. “The preparations will consist of seven to nine games
Buy This Shoe, Plus Morning Lockout Roundup
NEW YORK — I was supposed to go to a Converse event late last week, but the lockout interceded when the union called a media briefing at its headquarters in Harlem and I had to choose news over shoes. I told Mandy Gutmann (who left her post as a Knicks media relations staff for the greener pastures of Converse) that I would find a way to make up for my absence, and there it is. (I saw more people wearing Chuck Taylors in
Why J.J. Hickson failed in Israel
After less than two weeks in Israel, J.J. Hickson packed his bags and was on a 10 a.m. flight back to America. Despite an upcoming matchup against a Rishon Lezion squad that knocked the team out of the playoffs last season, Bnei Herzliya had such an issue with Hickson’s attitude and behavior that they sent him home 24 hours before the game. Though he arrived with tremendous hype as one of the more acclaimed NBA players to play in Israel, Hickson’s stint
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