It was about ten years ago, when the local Steve and Barry’s clothing store in Colonie Center offered a brand new product. It was an NBA-quality basketball sneaker line, underwritten and promoted by New York Knicks star Stephon Marbury. The shoes – known as “Starburys” – retailed for about $15/pair. Think about that for a…
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The 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 MoreAre there Albany Patroons and Siena Saints in “The Tournament”?
The 2015 Tournament, the million-dollar winner-takes-all hoops matchup in which 97 basketball teams will compete in a single-elimination matchup, is now underway. The first games were played yesterday, and I’m not going to bore you with scores at the moment. What I am going to do, though, is go through all the rosters of the…
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 MoreJamario Moon to be part of “Team Mill Rats” for The Tournament
Well, my interest in the upcoming “The Basketball Tournament” just jumped about 150 feet in the air. And that’s because former NBA star Jamario Moon has just joined up with the team. Okay, let me recap a smidge. The team that will be known as “Team Mill Rats” is participating in The Basketball Tournament, a…
Read MoreCan we get the Mill Rats into “The Tournament”?
All right my basketball-loving blog readers and friends, listen up. I received word from Ian McCarthy, the general manager of the National Basketball League of Canada’s Saint John (New Brunswick) Mill Rats. He and several Mill Rats, along with some players from other professional hoops teams, are combining to participate in a million-dollar independent basketball…
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…
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