As I look around the basketball blogosphere, read journalist evaluations, and listen to fan opinions – it seems to me that we are really lacking an understanding of what it takes to win basketball games, and as a result we lose focus of which stats we should really pay attention to. As far as I’m concerned, basketball is a game of possessions and opportunity cost.

The Kobe debate today revolves not around his personality and moral ethics, but his ability on the court. Is Kobe Bryant really worth it?

Where Amazing Doesn’t Happen is a regular section which parodies the official NBA ad campaign running at the moment.

Denied! is a regular special feature that will see me take an article/action/story and let the culprit in question know exactly why they are wrong. This week I will be targeting all-mighty journalist Chris McCosky from the Detroit News and his recent elitist article condemning (practically) all bloggers around the world. Essentially what he says [...]

Dear Gilbert, I want to start off by letting you know I’ve been a big fan over the past couple of years. Your personality, attitude, outspoken demeanor, the underdog status, and your exciting style of play has resulted in millions of people declaring you as their favorite player, hero, icon – and I use to [...]

The NBA season is right around the corner and every sports fan with a hint of basketball in their blood is eager for the season to finally get underway. Over the past couple months we ‘witnessed’ a very dull NBA final, we had some big trades that went through and some that didn’t, we’ve had scandals, many comeback considerations, and much much more. However all of that will clear the way on Wednesday night for the season openers and real basketball headlines

The highly anticipated game between the Cavaliers and the Magic in Shanghai was due to start at 8pm in Qizhong Arena. I didn’t have a ticket to the game, but this was China in the end so I thought the black market was as or even more reliable than any ticketing agency that I would have gone to. As expected, scalpers were in the hundreds (I kid you not), and after being ambushed by a large group of them 100 meters from the arena, I finally decided to buy a ticket.