My advice to go ‘all-in’ on Kobe Bryant in daily leagues backfired, and predicting the well-rested Lakers would be determined to turn around a frustrating season was another miss. The ‘tired’ visiting Nuggets won with a terrific 8-man effort. [Read more…]
Happy new year, everyone! 2012 ended with a colossal upset, as the Charlotte Bobcats actually won a game after losing 18 in a row. [Read more…]
The race for this season’s Most Improved Player reminds me of one of those computer-simulated races that take place on the jumbotrons at arenas throughout the country. You know what I’m talking about. They’ve got the cute characters and cool animation, but they end up with more twists and turns than an M. Night Shyamalan movie. Most races go something like this: [Read more…]
It’s been a long nine months for Ricky Rubio, his fantasy owners and my fellow Wolves fans. Limited to 19 minutes, he scored 8 PTS, handed out 9 AST — some of them dazzling — and made 3 STL. [Read more…]
It’s not Chris Sheridan’s fault. He didn’t know what he was getting into when he handed this column over to me, one of the top five most improved human beings on the face of the Earth. He didn’t know that I could barely read in 10th grade, but that my diligence and perseverance has make me grammar better so much. He couldn’t possibly have known that I successfully debated Mookie Blaylock’s candidacy for Most Improved Player in week three of the 1994-95 NBA season
It’s the Larry Sanders Show. Not the old HBO sitcom starring Garry Shandling, which I never really found to be that funny but ultimately paved the way for similar real-life parody vehicles such as Curb Your Enthusiasm and Entourage. No, this is neither parody nor sitcom. It’s more of a reality show, and its star appears as serious as a heart attack about becoming a permanent resident of our Most Improved Player Rankings. [Read more…]
If the Charlotte Bobcats win tonight, they will equal their victory total from all of last season. That’s right; they would be 7-4 instead of 7-59, an improvement that is beyond belief. [Read more…]
Yes, we are rankings-crazy here at the home office, where we are now up to five sets of rankings — MVP, Rookies, NBA Power Rankings, Euroleague Rankings … and now Most Improved. We are so rankings crazy we just used the same word four times in the same sentence. Later in the season, we’ll do the same for Coach of the Year and Sixth Man, which Jamal Crawford has probably already won, right? [Read more…]