There are few things that indicate futility more than when a coach loses the connection with his team. When that happens there is nothing to fix, nothing to do, nowhere to turn. It is over. The wonder of team sports is the coming together of a group of people willing to put personal agendas aside for the common goal of winning. When that happens you truly get a whole bigger than the sum of the parts, and magic happens. When people
Mitch Kupchak shouldn’t be playing hardball. In his desire to trade Pau Gasol, the GM of the Los Angeles Lakers should not have insisted on receiving Dion Waiters or a first-round pick from the Cleveland Cavaliers. Nobody has overpaid for a rental since Ernie Grunfeld sent Ray Allen to Seattle for Gary Payton — and that was a long time ago. Kupchak should have lowered his demands to match the team’s expectations. The Lakers are done for this season and should be
Dennis Rodman appears to have made good on his promise to field a team of ex-NBA players for his trip to North Korea to play basketball in honor of Kim Jong-Un’s birthday, from which we can surmise that we now know exactly which ex-players will do absolutely anything to make money. Even if it means traveling to the country with the worst human rights record on the planet. Rodman’s team includes Kenny Anderson, Vin Baker, Doug Christie, Craig Hodges, Clifford Robinson