Category Archives: Series of the Week

Editor’s Note: This will conclude our Series of the Week feature for the 2013 postseason.  Many thanks for reading Games of the Week and Series of the Week this year.   *** When one sits down and watches the 2007 … Continue reading →

For the past four days I have been on vacation on the East Coast; caught up in rushing rivers full of busy people armed with iPod earphones and yoga mats, wearing intensely blank stares as they zoom through underground metro … Continue reading →

Can one really not want liberation, and instead choose captivity? I shall explain.  Last Thursday, after seven months of loyal viewership, my Warriors were eliminated by the Spurs.  They put up a valiant fight in the face of an overwhelming … Continue reading →

“We have a pretty good team.  Just got hurt.” David Kahn, ex-GM of the Minnesota Timberwolves The above statement has nothing to do with either the Thunder or the Grizzlies.  Rather, it concerns the Minnesota Timberwolves, the team that David … Continue reading →

  There seems to be a tendency among humans to fetishize bygone eras in an attempt to elevate them over other epochs, namely, the one we are currently living in.  Colloquially expressed in the oft-uttered phrase “back in my day”, … Continue reading →

In the modern NBA, where matchups are key, and momentum means just about everything, it is interesting that all NBA playoff series are not created — or received — equally.  Indeed, professional basketball teams are skilled enough to refocus and … Continue reading →

Editor’s Note:  With the playoffs in full swing, we’ve brought back “Series of the Week” to supplant the “Games of the Week” feature.  These will be extended weekly discussions on a particular team, player, theme or topic from a playoff … Continue reading →