who would you rather be?–Dominique Wilkins vs. Robert Horry

ODD FELLOWS: The nigga with 8 rings MOONYAN: the answer is Team Accolades vs. individual. I love Dominique. I wrote article on him at 12 when he was at Georgia. Gives my age away that being said for me less recognition more Chips. Anything over a couple million I’m good with whom has bigger net…

Old Man at Thirty: The Reality of Sports and Life

  One talking head sports media personality said that Tom Brady’s brand is age defiance. We will see how well that works when Brady dies, like the rest of us. “Tom vs. Time.” I wonder who’s going to win that battle? Click Here! In real life, being in your mid-thirties means you are still a…

NBA: Olajuwon, Ewing, and great expectations

Olajuwon has advanced to the NBA Finals once in his 10-year career. That was in 1986, his second season in the league, when the Rockets lost to the Boston Celtics, four games to two. Ewing has never made a Finals appearance. The closest he’s gotten was last year when the Knicks fell to the Chicago…

NBA 2K16-6: Roanoke Railguns, Coasting and Splashing

a season of association… Even Oladipo gets the swarm defense treatment. No quarter given   The Roanoke Railguns (17-6, including 3-3 record in computer-simulated games) are 2nd in the power rankings, behind Oklahoma City. Team chemistry is rated at 34% ???    Everyone on the team seemed to be unsettled or plain ole angry and…

International Flair: Ten-minute basketball history lessons

Arvydas Sabonis. He helped win multiple medals in international competition. Meanwhile, Sabonis spent a brilliant career dominating European basketball. A cross between Shaquille O’Neal and Larry Bird, the 7-3 Lithuanian had handle, height, and heft like no other. Fans note his injuries with sadness, knowing that a great career was stunted. But Sabonis helped cement…

NBA 3-Pointer: Is it Outdated?

The Boston Celtics took a team-record 46 three-pointers, early February, 2016. It was not only a team record, said Pardon the Interruption, it was the third-highest attempts in NBA history. There is a lot of noise about the high volume of three-point shots in the NBA. The opiners can’t exactly complain, because there are so many…