Archive for June, 2009

If you’re a Toronto Raptors fan, a new blog (Raptors Rapture) has just joined FanSided. If you’re not a Raptors fan…  hi, how are you today?

If you just wanna see my picks and don’t care about no analysis, just skip to the bottom. For the rest of y’all, here we go: First off, lemme make clear that the list below is not who I think each team SHOULD take, but rather who I think they WILL take. Second, this list also of course assumes that absolutely no one trades picks, which is highly unlikely. Obviously if just one team trades its pick, this whole house of cards will crumble. Like I’ve got Memphis picking Ricky Rubio with the second overall pick because I think not [...]

I’mna continue on from yesterday’s NYT article that I talked about in Part I (better known as the part that didn’t realize it was Part I and instead initially felt like it was a fully formed blog that needed no other blogs to complete it.  The moral: we all need someone/thing.  Even the blogs.)  The article’s thrust actually was that the hi-def cameras would help strategies by taking statistical analysis to the next level.  The thing is, the reason basketball stats are so simple and years behind say baseball isn’t due to the fact that we haven’t had the technology.  [...]

The New York Times had an interesting article today on the NBA’s new attempt last night during the Lakers/Orlando final game to improve statistical analysis.  For the first time they had 6 high-def cameras filming every single movement of the players, refs, and of course the ball, complete with real-time analysis.  For those who don’t know, real-time analysis is exactly what it sounds like: as they mention computers instantly know if a block was goal-tending without having to go back and visually review it (like us mere humans do in the slo-mo replays).  Although the article’s point seems to be [...]

-Watch two-time MVP Steve Nash get unprecedented access during the finals while reporting for David Letterman. As Mel Brooks would say, “It’s good ta be the king.” -John Hollinger comes up with all-time-rankings for the 30 NBA franchises. The Clippers come in 29th, only ahead of Memphis. Even Charlotte which has never had a winning season or an All-Star was one spot ahead. -Surprise Breaking News! Jermaine O’Neal decides to exercise his player option and make $23 million next year rather than become a free agent and struggle to make $5mill at best. -The Sixers make a great trade, receiving [...]

I just found out how to see how many people have visited your site, and it turns out that you can learn a whole buttload more of info too which I found fascinating.  Those of you who are savvy about website stuff will probably find this all boring, but the rest of you should get a kick out of this. First off, as of yesterday, when this site was like 5 days old, I’ve already had 586 page views from 242 unique viewers!  242 people!  Here I thought I was just writing in my underwear for my Mom & Pop [...]

Not only does the Short White Boy spend a lot of time thinking about bball, but he also spends a bunch of time emailing & talking with friends about it.  One of my friends, Rich, who also has no life, wrote me this email recently where he analyzed the Clippers recent draft picks.  I figured since it looked like he actually did a bit of research I’d post it.  My analysis of his analysis follows (ain’t that also what happens when 2 therapist marry?). You are actually going to write a blog piece now that the Clips have the #1 [...]

On Saturday, to drum up excitement the Clips had an open work-out for Blake Griffin inviting in the media, blog-writers (fer some reason I didn’t get no invite — could it be ‘cuz I only started the blog later that night? Nah, I think it’s Anti-Short-White-Boy-ism), and season ticket holders (including actor Matthew Lillard from Scream #1, aka the original, and them Scooby-Doo movies. Maybe Lillard himself, at 6′3″, could be a good backup PG for Mike Taylor after Baron Davis goes down with an injury?). Griffin apparently looked like a monster mostly going up against… no one. His mid-range [...]

Alex David, aka Short White Boy, was born in the small town of Manhattan as a tall black man. When he realized he’d never be a decent basketball player, it scared the black out of him. And made him shrink in despair. As a child, bball was always his favorite sport to play, but he didn’t watch it on tv. He used to explain that disparity by saying it was like sex — he’d much rather be doing it than watching it. Post-college he discovered how hard it was to find willing partners, er, bball players, so he had no [...]

Bloggers from multiple FanSided.com sites will partake in this chat during the game. Should be a blast. Feel free to join us. NBA Finals Game 2 – Magic at Lakers