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A respectful farewell to David Stern

Filed under: Basketball, International, NBA by Joshua Mott — 1 Comment
October 27, 2012

Quitting | David Stern (right) will step down as commissioner of the NBA 30 years after taking the job. Long-term protégé Adam Silver has already been elected as his successor (Image | Getty)

It is difficult to grasp quite how far the NBA has come in the almost thirty years that David Stern has been at the helm.

Stern became commissioner in 1984, when the league could not even get its championship series televised. Today, the NBA is a $5 billion business with a truly global appeal.

Stern will retire on 1st February 2014, 30 years to the day after he took charge. The 70-year-old commissioner will hand the reigns over to his deputy of six years, Adam Silver.

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Positive impact being felt from coaching changes

Filed under: Basketball, Football, Indiana Pacers, International, NBA, New York Knicks, Premier League, Rugby, Six Nations, Sunderland by Rob Schatten — Leave a comment
March 23, 2012

New York Knicks interim coach Mike Woodson has his star player, Carmelo Anthony, and the Knicks squad performing at their best again

What a difference a coach makes.

Mike Woodson’s all-too-timely promotion to head coach of the New York Knicks is seeing a recently-ailing franchise currently enjoying its second sudden, unexpected surge of the truncated 2011-12 NBA season. (The first time, this guy was the focus, if you don’t remember.)

In basketball, especially in the NBA, a change of head coach can have profound effects on a team’s personnel and fortunes. The game is so focussed around set-plays and defensive systems at the elite level that Woodson’s isolation-heavy offense is completely different to the “seven seconds or less” philosophy of his predecessor, Mike D’Antoni.

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Feel the Lin-sanity

Filed under: Basketball, Golden State Warriors, NBA, New Jersey Nets, New York Knicks by Rob Schatten — 12 Comments
February 17, 2012

Second-year point guard Jeremy Lin is America's most talked-about sensation

By now, everyone in America – basketball fan or otherwise – has heard of the sensational story of Jeremy Lin. The news is spreading around the world so fast that this article (which I have been planning for a couple days) has been brought forward at the request of my younger brother, who lives in Southend and has limited interest in basketball.

Call it what you will (and people have). Lin-sanity. Lin-telligence. Lin-pressive. The Lin Dynasty. Shao-Lin. There are endless ways, it seems, of building Lin’s surname into a nickname, but the emerging New York Knicks point guard has everyone talking about far more than his name right now.

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Injuries already taking toll on NBA

Filed under: Atlanta Hawks, Basketball, Boston Celtics, Charlotte Bobcats, Los Angeles Lakers, Memphis Grizzlies, Miami Heat, NBA, New York Knicks, San Antonio Spurs by Rob Schatten — 2 Comments
January 18, 2012

Dwyane Wade’s ongoing injury problems are forcing the Heat to switch style

Given that the season started just one month after the NBA’s damaging and embarrassing lockout ended, and that teams had one week for training camp (not two) and two preseason games (not the usual six or seven), it was unavoidable, even expected, that there would be injuries around the league – but boy are they coming thick and fast. Already, Miami’s Big Two-and-a-Half has been reduced to the Big One-and-a-Half, as Dwyane Wade struggles with various nagging leg injuries, and on one occasion, even the Big Half as LeBron James joined his running mate on the sidelines and left Chris Bosh to lead an otherwise rather short Miami roster. (As a Bosh sympathiser, if not supporter, I feel obliged to point out that he had a massive game - 33 points, 14 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 blocks - to lead the Heat to victory over the Hawks.)

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