May 2009

Best Postseason Ever? How Amazing Happens in 6 Steps: The NBA Business Perspective

May 24, 2009

You’ve heard plenty about it… the debate rages on whether this NBA postseason is the best ever. Well, there’s no cut-and-dried set of criteria to determine this. So, when it comes to figuring how successful a season is, I am inclined to fall back to the factors that best facilitate the growth of the brand [...]

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John Wall and Kentucky

May 21, 2009

John Calipari, already the highest paid coach in NCAA basketball, continues to add to his riches by landing a gem of a player in John Wall. What makes this so intriguing is the fact that Wall could have chosen to enter his name in the NBA draft due to a technicality. Originally, the 19-year old [...]

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The Best Teams Won.

May 19, 2009

Game Sevens.  It doesn’t get much better than a playoff series that comes down to a Game Seven , no matter what the sport.  The players are sick of each other, tempers are frayed, and coaches are about all strategized out.  How many surprises and adjustments can there be?   You know the teams are pretty equal;  [...]

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John Wooden on Teaching

May 18, 2009

I have never really “heard” John Wooden.  I’ve seen him on TV at games give a quick sound bite.  I’ve read a book about him and a book by him.  I admire him greatly.  But I’ve never really heard him talk long enough that I felt like I truly understood him. Well, this speech his [...]

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The First Annual Feinberg Academic All-American Basketball Classic

May 14, 2009

This past Saturday at Citizens Bank Arena, in Ontario, CA, the culmination of a new kind of sporting event took place. A high school all-American weekend dedicated to celebrating the participating scholar-athlete’s character as well as their caliber of play and (to quote the founder and chairman Robert Icart) “promoting the education and athletics at [...]

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Technology & Basketball

May 12, 2009

A few updates regarding new ways to stay in touch with Basketball.  Google is in the process of rolling out new search functions, and one of them is the ability to see an instant box score.  For example I just typed in “Boston Celtics” to the Google Search bar and here is what the Search [...]

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“Heart Transplant”

May 11, 2009

Saturday, I was hurrying home to watch Game Three of the Atlanta- Cleveland series. I was listening to the pre-game on ESPN, when  Jim Durham asked Dr. Jack Ramsey what he thought Atlanta needed to do.  Dr. Jack said, “first of all, they need a heart transplant“.  He went on to say that they had [...]

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Rajon Rondo. The New Celtic Main Man.

May 8, 2009

As I watched the start of the second game of the Lakers vs Rockets series, it was evident that Kobe Bryant was in the mind frame that he was not going to let the Lakers lose Game Two.  After losing at home in Game One to the Rockets, Bryant knew how important it was to [...]

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Round 2: Ejections, Fouls, and Hard Fouls

May 7, 2009

Well, things are getting a little chippy already in the Orlando-Boston series, and the LA-Houston series, and they are only two games into them.  Usually it takes a little more time for players to get sick of each other and have tempers flare.  I think the fact that both of the favorites, Boston and LA, got spanked [...]

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Bulls vs. Celtics: Where Amazing Happens

May 1, 2009

After watching game 6 of the Bulls vs. Celtics series, I wanted to write a post on how magnificent the series has been. I have been sitting in front of my laptop for the past hour trying to come up with something to write. Why? The series has been that magical. There is not one [...]

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