Today ESPN.com did a series of articles on the big free-agent bonanza expected for next summer, asking their panel of 52 experts specifically where top players LeBron, Wade, Bosh, & Stoudamire each will end up.  The majority said LeBron & Wade will probably stay where they are, with NY & Chicago as their secondary possibilities.  [...]

As a born & bred NYC boy and a huge fan of “Mad Men,” I enjoyed Kevin Arnovitz’s TrueHoop article on the recent episode that involved a company wanting to tear down the then-Penn Station for what at the time would be a “new” Madison Square Garden.  He writes:
The original Pennsylvania Station was eventually demolished, [...]

The Los Angeles Times reported today that the Clippers reached an exclusive TV deal with Fox Sports Prime Ticket:
No one was happier with Thursday’s news than Ralph Lawler, the veteran Clippers broadcaster.
“I can’t tell you how pleased I am to have all of our games on one carrier,” he said. “I’ve been frustrated for years [...]

ESPN has been running a series of articles where 50+ experts are surveyed about the upcoming season.  Today they put out the results to two of those surveys: What teams are most likely to be in turmoil and What teams will have the biggest turnaround? These should be two completely different sets of teams, one [...]

I wrote recently about how a former “crooked” stat keeper named Alex confessed to some of the stat manipulation that goes on at home games.  In an article on Deadspin he expanded on those comments.  The biggest, saddest, most relevant part to this site is that all teams seem to boost their stats at home… [...]