One of my many jobs is working with the National Basketball League of Canada, an eight-team circuit that is currently playing its fifth season in the Great White North. I take care of their statistics, I handle their player clearances, I do a lot of grunt work for the league. And it’s never considered “work”…
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NBL Canada: Back to work for Year 5
Next Saturday, the eight basketball teams of the National Basketball League of Canada will inaugurate the league’s fifth season. This is nice. I’m back to work again, back handling statistics and player clearances and other stat-rat behind the scenes stuff. For me, this is fun – and I get paid for having fun. For the…
Read MoreThe blessings of a little help
David Magley, an alumni of the Albany Patroons (he was on the 1983-84 Phil Jackson-coached CBA championship team), is now the commissioner of the National Basketball League of Canada. As part of his duties during the NBL’s offseason, Magley has organized several free agent tryout camps throughout North America. Free agent tryout camps are great…
Read MoreThoughts while driving to Syracuse
By the time you read this, I’ll be on the road with a precious cargo – six of my best photographic artworks – for “Drop-Off Day” at the New York State Fair. This seems to be part of an all-encompassing “drop-off-3-day-weekend” with my three entries for the Big E shipped yesterday, and my four (5)…
Read MoreOkay, “Team Mill Rats,” today’s our day!
Okay. Today’s our big day. All of you who followed along with me and signed up with The Basketball Tournament and supported Team Mill Rats… Today’s our first game in The Tournament. Bright and early, 10:00 a.m. this morning. Recap. Last April, I blogged that a team of NBL Canada and Premier Basketball League stars…
Read MoreDoes Ogie Oglethorpe play basketball?
This is not how I expected my basketball season to end. Last night was Game 7 of a highly-fought and tight series between the top two teams in the National Basketball League of Canada – the Halifax Rainmen, champions of the Atlantic Division; and the Windsor Express, the defending NBL champions. Even though I made…
Read MoreThe Windsor Express just busted my bracket
Okay, like your basketball bracket survived past the first round this year. Don’t front. The truth is, my National Basketball League of Canada playoff bracket predictions were as perfect as a sunrise. All my first-round teams advanced. And I had the Atlantic Division champion (Halifax Rainmen) correctly picked. And my Central Division pick – the…
Read MoreAnd my basketball bracket is STILL perfect…
Can you believe it? I mean, how many of you have watched as your bracket got completely obliterated by upsets and buzzer-beating miracle shots? Yeah, your bracket is a mess, isn’t it? I don’t wnat to gloat, but… mine is actually still intact and perfect. So who did I pick? Georgia State? Alabama-Birmingham? Nope. I…
Read MoreSeven cities in Canada aren’t happy with me…
As you might know, one of my jobs is to provide statistics and player relations with the National Basketball League of Canada, an eight-team hoops circuit that’s right in the middle of playoff season. Eight teams are battling for the championship, including the defending champion Windsor (Ont.) Express, the two-time champion London (Ont.) Lightning, and…
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A Diploma in Diamonds and Dirilium
I remember the day in 1981. A beautiful, sun-scorched June day on the campus of the Doane Stuart School, which offered its facilities for the graduates of the Street Academy of Albany on this very day. My high school diploma, my “first” diploma. I accepted it proudly. Along with the diploma came a high school…
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