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Monday Night Football is playing its opening-weekend double header. My hay fever is in full swing. If I had kids, they’d be just starting their school year. It’s late summer, the NBA’s dead zone, and we’re a full three weeks…
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The whole world has different challenges now with the 24-hour news cycle and just the volume of stuff that’s out there. And everybody has to get out there. So you’ve got all these people now, because it’s online 24 hours,…
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Zach Lowe reported yesterday that the NBA will be contracting for all 30 arenas to install SportsVu cameras; the ones that track everything that moves during a basketball game. (Players, referees, the ball.) Up to this point, the technology was…
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This quote from Jonathan Abrams’ fantastic new piece on Flynn is revealing: Flynn spent last season with the Australian National Basketball League’s Melbourne Tigers. “I really wanted to play in a place that was English-speaking,” Flynn said. “That was really…
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Well, that took a while. It would be wrong to say we were “anxiously” awaiting the news of Pekovic re-signing, because it seemed inevitable. His potential suitors burned up their cap space elsewhere, the Wolves were reportedly offering market value,…
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Bayno Being Bayno “Bayno credits these courts, this city, for supplying the lessons leading to his successful playing and coaching career. He does the clinic each year except for rare occasions when his schedule makes it impossible. He has known…
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“Why can’t you just say you like Bassy? Why you gotta say you like him way more than Jonny?” Those words were directed at my friend Brian, who had spent too much time in Kieren’s Irish Pub after a weeknight…
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https://twitter.com/Highway_30/status/362307578400735233 https://twitter.com/Highway_30/status/362312694612770819 It’s Playoffs Week at the Howard Pulley Pro-Am. I had yet to make it over to Eagan this summer for the state’s best offseason run. My dad called to tell me he’d be there. Still, I was…
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CASPIAN KANG: Reddit & Internet Integrity Jay Caspian Kang’s “Should Reddit Be Blamed for the Spreading of a Smear?” is a must-read for anyone who cares about the news, but is especially on-point for bloggers and blog readers. Highly rec’d.
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Sublime, Doing Time This is the time of year when you appreciate basketball’s aesthetic pleasures. You step back, take a deep breath, and revisit the finer things. You know, the crossovers. The dunks. And the treys. And I’d be remiss…
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Bobcats Teaching MKG How to Shoot Via Matt Moore/CBS Eye On Basketball, the Charlotte Bobcats have hired Mark Price. His job? Teach Michael Kidd-Gilchrist how to shoot a basketball. According to the article, the goal is to blow it up…
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With news of Bayno’s departure to Toronto and Dwane Casey’s staff, this is worth re-posting. Will have a new post up soon.
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I just spent fourteen dollars and ninety-nine cents to watch glorified pickup basketball on my computer. LeBron James clinched his second consecutive championship on June 20, Shabazz Muhammad [eventually] put on his new Minnesota hat on June 27, and Chase…
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[The Timberwolves] have committed to him. A guaranteed contract. I assured them that this kid is a great kid, not a good kid but a great kid. There won’t be issues off the floor. He’s driven, he wants to be…
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Your newest #Twolves' jersey numbers: Shabazz Muhammad will wear #0 and Gorgui Dieng wil wear #5. #WolvesDraft — Timberwolves PR (@Twolves_PR) June 28, 2013 More on all of this later, when I get some time to fully digest it.
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Ben McLemore to the Minnesota Timberwolves Some of McLemore’s intangible qualities — mainly his assertiveness, focus, and competitiveness — have a number of front offices concerned about his future prospects. The Kansas guard also isn’t a great off-the-dribble creator, so…
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In a podcast with CBS Sports, Jonathan Givony was asked to name one player that is “confounding him” right now — meaning that his opinion differs significantly from what he’s hearing from NBA teams. His response: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope has really…
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The first basic lesson taught in law school is how to read a case. Reading the decisions of judges and justices is widely considered the best way to “think like a lawyer.” Cases are the best representation of the adversarial…
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Best #Twolves bets a week out: 1) Draft KCP 2) Draft a big (Zeller or maybe Plumlee) 3) Find deal for Oladipo (hard) 4) Find deal for Ben M. — Darren Wolfson (@DWolfsonKSTP) June 20, 2013 It’s just speculation, but…
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James Gandolfini Is Dead at 51 On a day separating historic basketball games played by the Spurs and Heat, tragedy struck the arts. James Gandolfini — Tony Soprano — died of an apparent heart attack while traveling in Italy. There…