Series of the Week: Indiana Pacers (3) versus Atlanta Hawks (6)
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...
View ArticleSeries of the Week: New York Knicks (2) versus Indiana Pacers (3)
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...
View ArticleSeries of the Week: Oklahoma City Thunder (1) versus Memphis Grizzlies (5)
“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...
View ArticleSeries of the Week: San Antonio Spurs (2) versus Memphis Grizzlies (5)
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...
View ArticleSeries of the Week: Miami Heat (1) versus Indiana Pacers (3)
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...
View ArticleSix Years Bolder.
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...
View ArticleSeries of the Week: Indiana Pacers (1) vs Atlanta Hawks (8)
Editor’s Note: As in years past, Games of the Week transforms into Series of the Week, an extended discussion on a single playoff series, and the themes and trends that define it. We start out East,...
View ArticleSeries of the Week: Toronto Raptors (4) versus Brooklyn Nets (5)
Each year, NBA fans are surprised by a series that gathers meaning as the games increase in number, and the stakes get higher after every nail-bitter. Usually this is a series that, at least...
View ArticleSeries of the Week: Oklahoma City Thunder (2) versus Los Angeles Clippers (3)
When the Warriors game ended, as Doc Rivers pumped his fist triumphantly in the air, and Clippers fans frolicked and cheered in the stands, finally able to relax after a nerve-wrecking Game 7 that was...
View ArticleLeBron: Bigger than a Series of the Week
We don’t talk about LeBron James very often. Or, I should say, he hardly gets discussed here. Of course, there have been a few exceptions over the last three years. Kevin analyzed his show of...
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