Tag: nba
NBA
Processing The Philadelphia 76ers
A little over five years ago, just a couple of weeks after my 21st birthday, my friend Collin flew down to Florida from our hometown in New York, and we took a trip across the...
NBA
Sonny Says ... In The NBA, Newer Isn't Always Better
Frankie - " Sonny, in a recent commercial LeBron James and Kevin Durant state they are the two best players in the NBA. Knowing your affinity for James, can you make an argument that Durant...
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Sonny Talks Sports Podcast - 2018 NBA Playoffs Preview
Image courtesy of the NBA. The NBA Playoffs begin today, and that means my cousin Paul Clark had to call in so we could deep-dive all eight 1st Round Playoff series on the Sonny Talks...
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2018 NBA Playoffs: 1st Round Primer
Image courtesy of the NBA. Today marks the beginning of the single best two month stretch of the calendar year. Today, the NBA Playoffs begin. Before the games get started in a few hours, take...
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Sonny Talks Sports Podcast: San Antonio Spurs Drama and NBA Awards
Image Courtesy of San Antonio Spurs/Facebook With the NBA season coming to a close, my cousin/San Antonio Spurs fan Gianni Zambito called in to the Podcast to discuss a number of topics, including: What's the...
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2017-18 NBA End of Year Award Ballot
Most Valuable Player 1. James Harden 2. LeBron James 3. Anthony Davis 4. Damian Lillard 5. Giannis Antetokounmpo James Harden as the 2017-18 MVP pick shouldn't come as much of a surprise here. The Beard...
Culture of Hoops
Donovan Mitchell Helps Ben Simmons With His Vocab Homework
The Rookie of the Year voting is so close that the leading candidates, Donovan Mitchell and Ben Simmons have taken to trolling each other through the media. And we are grateful for it. While Ben...
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The Florida Transplant, Dwyane Wade, and South Florida Rising
Screen capture courtesy of the NBA/YouTube. In what’s being all too common of a practice these days, the Miami Heat on Saturday held a pre-game ceremony to honor the victims of the massacre at Stoneman...
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Rocket Science: A Case for the Houston Rockets as 2018 NBA Champs
"Our perception of reality is malleable. Everything is always shifting." -Stephanee Killen In sports, the perception is that until you win, you can't win. Now I'm not talking about winning a game, or a few...
Culture of Hoops
Kawhi Leonard Cleared to Play, Opts to Sit
Image courtesy of Kawhi Leonard/Facebook. It is against that backdrop that Popovich stood in front of reporters assembled at the team’s practice facility earlier this week and dropped a bombshell. He would be “surprised” if...
