If Bryant Gumbel hadn’t used the words “plantation overseer” in his infamous commentary on HBO’s Outside the Lines last week, would he have been making some sort of a valid point? I discussed and debated that question with Rob Calloway on WAOK radio in Atlanta over the weekend. Click here to listen to the interview.
Beasley scores 56 in Durant’s exhibition game
My tweeps were chirping at me in the first quarter about a faulty stream on thebasketballchannel.com, but apparently the bandwidth problem was solved in time to show a pretty decent fourth quarter at Kevin Durant’s exhibition game in Oklahoma City last night, won 176-171 in overtime by Durant’s team. Some stat lines: Michael Beasley, 56 points on 25-for-35 shooting — though he disappeared in the fourth quarter when some defense started to get played, according to ESPN.com’s Royce Young. Chris Paul, 25 assists — including
Tweet of the Day: Kevin Durant
@KDTrey5Kevin Durant If you’re not in OKC, you can stream the game [email protected] Game is at 6 CT time #BasketballNeverStops Expected to Play: LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, Chris Paul. Committed to play: Kendrick Perkins, James Harden, Lamarcus Aldridge, Jamal Crawford, Damien Wilkins, Michael Beasley and Jonny Flynn. Possible late additions: Carmelo Anthony, Amare Stoudamire, Russell Westbrook.
Sheridan column: Breakdown of financial and system differences
NEW YORK — Have you cooled off yet, guys? The next step in the NBA lockout is likely to be a phone call placed from the league office to the players’ association. It’ll be a courtesy call to inform the union that an announcement is forthcoming that another chunk of games is being canceled. The call could end there, or it could include a kicker: “Feel like sitting down together again?” Let’s face it: At some point, the logical and inevitable thing to
Tweet of the Day: Dirk Nowitzki
Some advice for Dirk: Hum some Hasselhoff in your head before your wind-up at Game 3 of the World Series. @swish41 Dirk Nowitzki Fired up for tonight. Already warmin up in my backyard. Radar gun gonna read mid 80s. Let’s do this. Go rangers 27 minutes ago via UberSocial for BlackBerry
Introducing the “stretch exception”
From Howard Beck of The New York Times, reporting on what has been agreed to by the owners and the players: “There will be a one-time “amnesty” provision that will allow each team to waive a player (with pay) without his salary counting against the salary cap. There will be a “stretch” exception, available every year, allowing teams to waive players and stretch out their remaining salary over a number of seasons, thus reducing the annual salary-cap hit. The midlevel exception will be
Tweet of the day: Dwyane Wade
Wade sums things up with two of the words in his tweet: “Sad” and “Greed” @DwyaneWadeDwyane Wade You know its sad when people don’t even try and hide their greed..#NBALockout
Lockout update: The morning after
NEW YORK — Good morning — even though it isn’t such a good morning, is it? The whole thing blew up last night and got downright nasty afterward, and it now looks like David Stern’s Grinch prediction might actually come true. Except for two things: Stern was sidelined with flu-like symptoms and did not attend last night’s Armageddon, and Derek Fisher said he is staying in town in case talks are suddenly revived. It appears the sides need a cooling-off day, and
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