• Stuart Scott: Sportscasting Savant

    You really struggle to realize the impact pop culture icons have on your upbringing until they are gone. From a volume of exposure standpoint alone, I consumed more of Stuart Scott’s...

  • 2014-2015 NBA Mid-Season Report

    The first half of the NBA season has came and went in a John Wall fast break – like blur. The obvious observations: The Atlanta Hawks, yes the team most perpetually...

  • NBA Playoff Opening Weekend Recap

    Let me start this out by just saying wow, what an incredible opening weekend of NBA Playoff action. Every game, with the possible exception of Charlotte versus Miami, foreshadowed the makings...

  • The Art Of Closing In The NBA: Nature Versus Nurture

    Closers win rings. It is that simple in the NBA. The label of “closer” has become a diluted term of late; consummately misused and misrepresented by the sports media. About as month...

  • Carmelo and LeBron. Decisions decisions…what’s an All-star to do?

    Here we are just two and a half weeks into the young 2013-2014 NBA season, and I already find myself playing out possible trade scenarios that would change the landscape of...

  • 22 Points? It’s Hurricane Season

    It’s that time of year again…when swirling winds and torrential downpours start in South Florida then head up the Atlantic Coastline. From 2000-2002, The University of Miami’s football program was a...

  • In Los Angeles Rings Talk, Hype Walks

    I moved to Los Angeles from New York City at the beginning of the 2012-2013 NBA season, and I noticed an eerily similar phenomenon out west to what had been taking...