The Blunder Years, Episode 43: Fixing education, male loneliness, and middle school hoops
Two old chums from Teach for America Houston shooting the shit about life, hoops, flipped classrooms, and male loneliness. Continue Reading
NBA
Is Step 1 in the Golden State Warriors dynasty tonight?
Food for thought: the last team to win the NBA Finals with no players with any Finals experience was the 1991 Chicago Bulls. We know what ultimately happened there: dynasty. 1991, 1992, and 1993. If MJ doesn’t go “ride the bus,” then maybe 1994 and… Continue Reading
Minneapolis is the most cursed sports city
Whenever these lists come up, it’s always Cleveland (usually No. 1), Detroit, Buffalo, etc. You can make a case that D.C. is having a rough time of it now in terms of “closing the deal.” I’d actually make a different… Continue Reading
Gregg Popovich and the lesson of sticking with someone (or sticking with it)
For better or worse, we live in an instant gratification society right now. This is evident in a few walks of life, from the emergence of social media (cited by everyone) to business (focus on quarter-by-quarter results, which ultimately tell you… Continue Reading
Let’s revisit the whole context of Spurs vs. Heat and “same teams back-to-back in the NBA Finals”
We talked about this a bit before, but broader context is needed. This is the sixth time this has happened since the NBA-ABA merger of 1976; the other five times were: – Sonics/Bullets, late 1970s – Sixers/Lakers, early 1980s –… Continue Reading
Spurs-Heat is the sixth time since the NBA-ABA merger that the same two teams have met in the NBA Finals in back-to-back years
The NBA can sometimes seem a little repetitive. Case in point? The champions since 2000 are: Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Spurs, Pistons, Spurs, Heat, Spurs, Celtics, Lakers, Lakers, Mavericks, Heat, Heat. Not a ton of variety there, right? And now, we… Continue Reading
If you’re worried about the Miami Heat after Game 1 vs. the Pacers, don’t be: four times since they got LeBron James, they’ve lost Game 1 and won the series
Sports fans love to worry and assume a one-game sample size is the be-all and end-all. Straight up, it’s not. Case in point: the Miami Heat. Here’s the arc that has run through them this playoff season: they swept the Bobcats,… Continue Reading
The geographic center of the eight teams remaining in the NBA/NHL Playoffs is Millersville, Missouri (ya know, in case you wanted to know)
When you get older and your friends start living in different parts of the country relative to work/family/etc., you sometimes hop on GeoMidpoint to figure out the best place for a group to meet up (news flash: if you put six… Continue Reading