An ESPN media personality, on his April 24th, 2018 podcast, backpats Russell Westbrook for averaging triple doubles the last two regular seasons. Basically: “A trip-dub is a trip-dub. Period.”… Ten seconds later about Utah Jazz guard Ricky Rubio’s triple double vs. Oklahoma City in round 1, game 3, ESPN host says: “Well… Rubio went 2-9…
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…
Why do we act as if Eli Manning has been getting away with something? For some reason, sports media are smug when discussing the New York Giant quarterback. They want to point out that Manning’s play has declined, and was never that great in the first place. Pricking Eli Manning’s good-not-great QB career is not…