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Loose Talk Fouls
Certain NBA topics have remained taboo ... until now
Here are a bunch of truths that you just don't hear about The League:
Most players try harder when matched up against a white dude. And if it's a Caucasian American? They go all the way out ...
Kobe Bryant's Colorado "incident" is just about to be finally deep-sixed in the catacombs. Still in his prime and now surrounded by an amazingly marketable and competent supporting cast, Bryant is on the precipice of being reanointed a cross-platform mega-star. And good for him. He's a big boy now ...
Announcers on a national broadcast of a blowout game won't say it's one until about eight points past one's occurrence. Local announcers will blow the whistle about four points earlier, but only if it's the home team in front. Otherwise, the point of call doubles ...
The only reason any NBA franchise specializes in playing defense is because it's the quickest path to moderate victory. With a solid draft or two and just one big free agent score, a freshly hired coach can turn a bad team around within three years — which happens to be the average length of a coach's contract ...
It can be wholly disturbing to flip between The Departed and a Lakers game, as I learned going between the LA-Utah game and that classic Scorsese film on Sunday. I half expected Jack to hand one zebra a drawing of a dude boffing Tim Donaghy in protest of a bad call ...
We can't identify most general managers. For real, could you pick the Hornets' Jeff Bower or the Magic's Otis Smith from a police line-up? Yet they are way more important than head coaches, who actually do less coaching than their baseball or football counterparts. They matter more than 70 percent of players ...
Most players try harder when matched up against a white dude. And if it's a Caucasian American? They go all the way out ...
Kobe Bryant's Colorado "incident" is just about to be finally deep-sixed in the catacombs. Still in his prime and now surrounded by an amazingly marketable and competent supporting cast, Bryant is on the precipice of being reanointed a cross-platform mega-star. And good for him. He's a big boy now ...
Announcers on a national broadcast of a blowout game won't say it's one until about eight points past one's occurrence. Local announcers will blow the whistle about four points earlier, but only if it's the home team in front. Otherwise, the point of call doubles ...
The only reason any NBA franchise specializes in playing defense is because it's the quickest path to moderate victory. With a solid draft or two and just one big free agent score, a freshly hired coach can turn a bad team around within three years — which happens to be the average length of a coach's contract ...
It can be wholly disturbing to flip between The Departed and a Lakers game, as I learned going between the LA-Utah game and that classic Scorsese film on Sunday. I half expected Jack to hand one zebra a drawing of a dude boffing Tim Donaghy in protest of a bad call ...
We can't identify most general managers. For real, could you pick the Hornets' Jeff Bower or the Magic's Otis Smith from a police line-up? Yet they are way more important than head coaches, who actually do less coaching than their baseball or football counterparts. They matter more than 70 percent of players ...
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