All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘Michael Jordan’

OKC, Dallas and Fair Weather Coaching

OKC Thunder coach Scott Brooks claims he is not a “fairweather coach,” then goes out and proves it in the 4th quarter of the Thunder’s victory over the Dallas Mavericks.

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Are the Lakers Still Relevant?

I really wonder if the Lakers are title contenders anymore, and here is why. In game 2 of the 1992 …

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The NBA Lockout: Is it about the money? Or Pride?

The scorched earth NBA players are creating as they stubbornly “stand” against a 2.5% pay cut will certainly cost them more than 7% of their fans, and their associated revenue.

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It’s Up the Players to End the NBA Lockout

Reading message boards around the Internet, you get a sense of how most fans see the NBA labor dispute. There …

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Lebron is no Michael — Or Kobe for that matter

Regardless of whether you think it was right or wrong for LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to take …

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LeBron, Leaving, Loyalty and Treachery

Loyalty is an interesting topic. David Robinson assured the San Antonio Spurs that he’d be a Spur for life, and …

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Lebron chooses the Rosie Ruiz shortcut to glory

LeBron will certainly get his championships, but he won’t really EARN them.

Not like Michael Jordan earned his.

Or not like Magic Johnson and Larry Bird earned theirs, facing worthy nemesises in a battle that wrenched from both sides every bit of possible effort, heart, blood, sweat and tears to earn an NBA championship.

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Defending Coach Jerry Sloan from so-called Utah Jazz fans

People need to quit bashing Sloan for their imaginary perception of him, and wake up to what he’s done in reality. Seriously, if the Jazz were to let go of Jerry Sloan today, and if Phil Jackson and Doc Rivers were to retire this summer like they are both talking about doing…

You can bet both the Lakers and the Celtics would give serious thought to hiring Jerry Sloan as their new head coach.

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The Utah Flash victory no one will remember

In case you missed it, the basketball world buzzed for about 15 minutes in September of 2009 about a possible …

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