NBA Blog Squad
Posted in: Basketball on Dec 30
The NBA now has "blogs" written by commentators and insiders. Their line-up includes former Magic coach Doc Rivers and the inimitable Yaron Talpaz from Israel's Sport 5 channel.
Nice effort--but it'd be really cool if they hired a funny, opinionated writer like Scoop Jackson or Ricky Powell to blog for them and gave them open access to league games and players.
I personally would visit NBA.com daily to read Ricky Powell gems like this:
But it was Anthony Mason, more than any other player, who embraced the tough guy role and became the team's enforcer. One look at him, with his brick shithouse build, & you thought, "Damn, what is it?" (though for some reason the human giraffe Manute Bol took a Martin Lawrence-style "SHENANAE" swing at Mason once). Obviously a lot of New York fans can relate to him, and it would have been easy to imagine running into Mason back in the 70s as he rode the A train to work at MSG dressed in a denim Lee leisure suit with creases and Pro Keds Uptowners.
(From "The '93 Knicks: Were They the Shit or What?", Grand Royal #1)
Posted by Gene Smith on Dec 30, 2003
