The Spurs head coach is prepared to speak his mind on Donald Trump, and doesn’t go in for niceties. The NBA could do with more like himGregg Popovich didn’t like what he saw happening around him and, per usual, wasn’t afraid to speak up about it. When asked about Donald Trump’s haphazardly implemented travel ban and its chaotic consequences, the San Antonio Spurs head coach blasted the current administration using some of the same terminology he would use to dress down his own team after a particularly embarrassing on-court performance: “We’ll see where this goes. Obviously the rollout today was Keystone Cops-like, by any measure of objectivity. Whether you want to say it’s good or bad is irrelevant. But it...
The Golden State Warriors’ dream season ends in a LeBron James nightmare; legends leave the game; the basketball world mourns Pat SummittYou can be forgiven for thinking that the Cleveland Cavaliers were finished. After all, no team in NBA history had ever come back from a 3-1 NBA Finals lead and they were playing a Golden State Warriors team that wasn’t just good but historically unprecedented. Having gone 73-9 in the regular season, the 2015-16 Warriors were arguably a single win away from being in the “best NBA team ever” conversation. Continue reading...
For those in a rush to bury the Warriors after Monday’s lopsided loss to the Spurs, it’s worth remembering how difficult it can be to integrate a new starCome with me, if you will, to a time not too long ago; a simpler, more civilized time before the NBA arms race went positively nuclear. 31 October 2014, to be exact. The Cleveland Cavaliers were playing the New York Knicks, not unlike this very year. Just like this year, the Cavs were heavily favored, and the Knicks were predicted to lay down and play dead because, well, they’re the Knicks. It was a festive atmosphere in Cleveland then, too. LeBron James was playing in his first game as a Cav since...