Portland Trailblazers head coach Terry Stotts had just lost to the Golden State Warriors. His Trailblazers have reached the Western Conference Finals, far exceeding anyone’s expectations but in today’s NBA, if you want to make your mark, you better be Continue reading
“Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability.” – Hugo Weaving to Keanu Reeves in The Matrix Stop me if you’ve heard this before. The Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors are meeting once again in Continue reading
I received an interesting text from a friend the other morning following the aftermath of Game Five. It read as follows… “Everything we thought was wrong with that move… was in the end. Lame season in reality.” The text came Continue reading
We talk a lot about identity in sports, how the greatest teams over time, as a collective, develop a specific identity all their own. The Detroit Bad Boy Pistons of the late 1980s had a clear-cut identity. If you drove Continue reading
The 2014-15 NBA season is now a month behind us. And what a season it was. It’s been quite an off-season too. Summer leagues are already in full swing. LeBron James is holed up in a gym somewhere doing a Continue reading
SportsChump has always been on the cutting edge when it comes to hardcore, provocative sports analysis. This, my friends, is another one of those times. Please allow me to turn the lights down low, slip some Marvin Gaye onto the Continue reading
It was almost three years ago to the day. Golden State Warriors owner Joseph Lacob was introducing Chris Mullin to the Oracle Arena crowd. Mullin’s jersey was about to be retired. Frustrated with the state of the franchise, the Oakland Continue reading