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Expanding NBA’s 50 Greatest Players to 65 | Conclusion »
Pickin’ Splinters has concluded its voting for adding fifteen players to the original 50 greatest NBA players list. You can view the voting here: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Expanding NBA’s 50 Greatest Players to 65 | Part 3 »
View Part 1 and Part 2 of this discussion. In case you’ve missed the first two parts, we’re attempting to expand the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players to accomodate its 65th anniversary as a league in two seasons.
Expanding NBA’s 50 Greatest Players to 65 | Part 2 »
View Part 1 of this discussion. If you missed the introduction, we’re attempting to expand the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players to accomodate its 65th anniversary as a league in two seasons.
Expanding NBA’s 50 Greatest Players to 65 | Part 1 »
The list rightfully spans both the foundation, innovation and modernization of the game. No true guidelines exist for its compilation. For one, the names were presented sans-position, which allows only the best on the list. Secondly, statistics dominate the selections but can differ greatly from player-to-player. 32,172 points separate the list’s top and bottom scorers (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 38,327; Bill Walton 6,215).
Michael Beasley and the law of natural selection »
Cap room casualty – hardly what Beasley had in mind when taken as the second pick of the 2008 draft. After using his athleticism to dominate on the court during his one year in college, Beasley seemed destined for NBA stardom. As impractical as it may seem, Beasley should have been to Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Chris Bosh what Cedric “Cornbread” Maxwell was to Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parrish.
NBA Splinters | July 10, 2010 »
Joe Johnson left the 2010 free agency bonanza with the most money. The Atlanta Hawks will give him a reported $120 million for the next 6 years. That’s around $10 million less than Dwayne Wade and LeBron James. And don’t forget they fired their coach, the one who improved Atlanta’s record every year he coached them. This has to be one of the worst contracts and worst front offices in professional sports. Not that this needs validation, but here’s some career playoff stats:
Theater of the Absurd: Lakers’ Awkward Post-Game »
This has to be one of the most priceless sound bites in sports history. Doris Burke tried to interview Artest after the game while the celebration was still going on, and among his incoherent rambling, he thanks his psychiatrist thus proving once and for all that Ron Artest does not have a filter. This after he thanked “his hood.”
NBA Finals at a Glance »
Every time I look at Kobe I see this 19-year old kid with a Fresh-Prince-of-Bel-Air cut whose idea of a post entry pass was an eighteen-foot jumper clanging off the front of the rim. Now, it looks like the 13 years in the Association have taught him something. 13 years? Wait. 13 years? Is it possible that Kobe is playing in his 14th NBA season?
NBA Thumbnail Tales | Conference Finals, 2010 »
Intriguing match-ups abound in this series. Jameer Nelson and Rajon Rondo are two of the best young point guards in the league. Can Nelson get hot from outside against Rondo? Can Rondo get in the paint versus Nelson? Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis will play their own version of hide and go seek.
NBA & NHL: Final Four Predictions »
OK … we’re at the Final Four stage for the NBA and NHL playoffs. Let’s get some predictions from the Pine on how the playoffs will unravel for each sport. I’ll start:
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