The April 7 edition of CBS’ 60 Minutes featured a segment on Jeremy Lin, including interviews with Lin, his parents, and David Stern. Running commentary on the interview follows, so, open up a new browser window, kick back, and read along as you watch the interview. Segment Tease, from Charlie Rose: There aren’t many basketball […]
In honor of the announcement of Gary Payton’s forthcoming Hall of Fame induction, I reminisce at Dime about his famed defense on Michael Jordan during the 1996 NBA Finals: It was almost like a game within the game emerged, with Payton goading the hyper-competitive Jordan into taking threes, each Jordan miss a small victory for […]
New at Dime, a second look at Ed Davis in Memphis: (All stats per NBA.com/Stats) Since swapping the white, red, black, and occasional camo of Toronto for Memphis’ white, navy, and light blue threads, Davis is taking a much higher percentage of his shots from at the rim, from 62.4 percent up to 78.3 percent, […]
In my latest for Dime, I venture beyond statistical analysis and comment on the Fab Five and the impact they had not only on the college basketball climate, but also the lens through which we view college basketball: The Fab Five, cultural phenomenon that it was, de-centered team loyalties on a national level. Even if […]
For Dime, I examine the commonly held notion that high-pace teams cannot succeed in the playoffs, through a number of case studies: Interestingly enough, the Jazz and Warriors played at a high pace (100.31, up from 95.8 of Golden State vs. Dallas) not far off from the Warriors’ regular season average of 101.64. What was […]
Jacob Greenberg from The Diss and Felix Huang from Broken Yellow Lines get together to discuss Nike’s Black History Month Collection. This conversation took place over several days and is also cross-posted at The Diss. When Kevin Durant stepped onto the Pepsi Center floor on Sunday, January 20, 2013, his feet were adorned in a special […]
