Category Archives: Fortunate Moments for Unfortunate Franchises

Fortunate Moments for Unfortunate Franchises: The Minnesota Timberwolves and an Unlikely Hero

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Kevin Draper

Editor’s Note: This is the last piece in our series of Fortunate Moments for Unfortunate Franchises until the NBA expands to Europe. You can expect the London Fire FMUF around 2022. In 1987 the NBA added four expansion franchises, making … Continue reading →

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Fortunate Moments for Unfortunate Franchises: The Denver Nuggets and The Sanctity of a Thousand Words.

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Jacob Greenberg

Sanctity in sports can be represented in two ways: by a record, or by a picture. Records, of course, provide us with statistical evidence of an unprecedented feat.  If we choose to look at the numbers in a favorable way, … Continue reading →

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Fortunate Moments for Unfortunate Franchises: A Fictional Obituary for Donald Tokowitz, aka Donald T. Sterling

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Kevin Draper

Thursday June 1, 2017Los Angeles Times Donald Sterling, real estate mogul, Los Angeles Clippers owner, and unrelenting racist passed away Monday at the age of 84. Sterling began life in Chicago, Illinois in 1933 as Donald Tokowitz, before his family … Continue reading →

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Fortunate Moments for Unfortunate Franchises: An Open Letter to Reggie Miller.

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Jacob Greenberg

April 20, 2012 Dear Reggie Miller, Hello.  My name is Jacob Greenberg.  I’m 26 and live in Seattle.  And I used to hate you. Look, I’m sorry.  I don’t mean to put it so bluntly.  But I used to hate … Continue reading →

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Fortunate Moments for Unfortunate Franchises: The Charlotte Bobcats and the Traveling Con Man.

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Jacob Greenberg

The Traveling Con Man never announces his arrival, but you feel his impact immediately. He sweeps over everything, a totalizing and usurping force. Once he arrives in your hamlet, things are never the same. Lives are ruined, futures are compromised. … Continue reading →

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Fortunate Moments for Unfortunate Franchises: Cleveland Cavaliers

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Kevin Draper

Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest: The soul, uneasy and confin’d from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. – Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man The ebb and … Continue reading →

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Fortunate Moments For Unfortunate Franchises: The Five People Z-Bo Met in Basketball Heaven.

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Jacob Greenberg

“I just don’t want the day to come, when I pick up the paper, and it says that [Zach] shot someone, or someone shot Zach. Every day that goes by that I don’t see that, I feel good.” Moe Smedley  … Continue reading →

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