In the past decade of NBA Finals match ups, the team with the most rebounds has always become the NBA's champions.

After game 1 of the 2010 Western Conference Finals, Amare Stoudemire famously said Lamar Odom had a lucky game. They’ve been giving Amare a hard time for that, but it’s starting to look now like maybe Amare was right. And while he was at it, maybe Amare should have called out Pau Gasol, Ron Artest, Andrew Bynum, Jordan Farmar, Shannon Brown and Luke Walton. According to TNT analysts Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Reggie...

One of the remarkable things about the NBA's Final Four this year, is both the East and the West feature match ups between (1) a team with a dominate player surrounded by a "supporting cast," (Dwight Howard, Kobe Bryant) and (2) a team with solid players all around, including the bench.

All this senseless Boozer bashing is going to drive one of the NBA's premier power forwards out of Utah. So far, Carlos Boozer has out rebounded everyone else in the 2010 playoffs! And in the regular season, Carlos had more double doubles than LeBron James, Pau Gasol, Chris Bosh, Tim Duncan, Dirk Nowitzki, Kevin Durrant and Amare Stoudemire. Who can Utah get that is better than Booze?

Carlos Boozer had a tough game 4 against the Lakers for sure, but the Jazz SHOULD have been beaten inside. Pau Gasol, Lamar Odom and Andrew Bynum have a significant edge on Boozer, Paul Milsap and Kyrylo Fesenko. How do Derron Williams, Wesley Matthews and Kyle Kover justify losing outside game to the likes of Shannon Brown, Jordan Farmar and Derek Fisher? Just look at the shot chart for that disastrous 2nd quarter: the Jazz missed EVERY...

Chicago‘s long rap sheet for dirty politics added a chapter in the sports section yesterday when the Bulls announced they had fired head coach Vinny Del Negro. Chicago Bulls owner, Jerry Reinsdorf, once served on the Board of Directors of the now bankrupt and defunct Lehman Brothers, and is the recipient of the 2009 Sports Lawyers Award of Excellence. Neither of those distinctions makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside… But the...

The old television show, Hee Haw, used to have a popular sketch called “Gloom, Despair and Agony on Me.” Basically, 4 cast members dressed as hill billies would sit around singing humorous tales of how unlucky they were. One line from the chorus went, “If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all.” The poor Springfield Armor may be tempted to take that song up as their theme song for this...

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It is 39.8 miles from the David O. McKay Events Center in Orem, Utah to the Energy Solutions Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah. For a fan, that journey takes 45 minutes (if you drive the speed limit). For a Utah Flash basketball player trying to work his way into the NBA, that journey can take most of a young lifetime. I invited a young high school basketball player I know to attend last night’s game between the Utah Flash and the Idaho...

If I had seen the final score of tonight’s D-League game between the Iowa Energy and the Utah Flash, (Iowa 126, Utah 112), without seeing the game, my first thought would have been, “Overtime?” Then, upon seeing that the Flash gave up 126 points at home in regulation, my next thought would have been, “Wow, the Flash were about as attentive on defensive as a couple of Northwest Airlines pilots bound for Minneapolis...

On January 25, 2010, the Utah Flash hosted the Maine Red Claws. The Red Claws ended up thumping the Flash handily, but I thought the way this game played out provides some excellent insights on winning and on losing. Here is the scoring by quarter: Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Total Red Claws 29 15 27 36 107 Utah Flash 22 24 12 26 84 Check out the points scored by each team in the 2nd and 3rd quarters. Wow, huh? A game like basketball has...

First, I would like to thank the young man with the Utah Flash who handed out stats during halftime of tonight’s game. They really make a difference in understanding what is going on, and focus attention on the game. Thanks again. Today the Albuquerque Thunderbirds avenged their New Years Eve loss with a 109 – 103 win over the Utah Flash in Orem. Credit Thunderbird Head Coach John Coffino and his team for learning from their...