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The 100 Best Players in Basketball History, Part 9

2013-05-18T22:48:00.000-04:00

Previous installment is here. 40 players left. We are getting down to it. 40. Horace Grant 138.23 PF 1335 .104 He’ll go ahead of Chet Walker..and Marion…and Lanier, that career value really starts to spread as we move up the list. He winds up just behind McHale. Odom is out of the top 100, Tony Parker (for now?) out of the top 50. 39. Patrick Ewing 140.51 C 1322 .106 Ewing’s

The 100 Best Players in Basketball History, Part 8

2013-05-18T12:12:00.001-04:00

Previous Installment is here. Fifty players left. 50. Bob Lanier 125.74 C 1026 .123 A good start, 125 wins, almost .125/game. There’s a good fight between Lanier and Gasol; you could flip a coin really, but here, given that one more season and it isn’t a question, you go Pau. That knocks Kevin Willis out of the top 100. It knocks McAdoo out of

Top 100 NFL Players of 2013 #70-61.

2013-05-17T22:49:00.003-04:00

80-71 is here. NFL Net List 70. C.Greenway OLB Minnesota (not on my list) 69. T.Jennings CB Chicago (not on my list) 68. D.Thomas WR Denver (on my list, higher) 67. D.Revis CB Tampa (on my list, look below) 66. E.Thomas S Seattle (on my list, higher) 65. D.Bowe WR KC (nope) 64. A.Morris RB Wash (nope) 63. S.Tulloch ILB Detroit (that's really high) 62. C. Johnson RB Tenn (not on the list) 61.

The 100 Best Players in Basketball History, Part 7

2013-05-17T21:37:00.001-04:00

Part 6 is here. Previous installment is 60. Jack Sikma 120.36 C 1209 .100 The best basketball player I ever met comes in ahead of Laimbeer…ahead of Howard…gets all the way below Nance. 59. Rasheed Wallace 120.36 PF 1286 .094 Squeezes in between Howard and Laimbeer. 58. Zelmo Beaty 120.6 C

The 100 Best Players in Basketball History, Part 6

2013-05-16T22:45:00.000-04:00

The previous installment is here. 70. Otis Thorpe 111.89 PF 1335 .084 -Very similar to Alex English, with additional career value. He goes all the way ahead of Greer given the career value. The career value gets him by Bosh. He’s going in right after Bobby Jones. 69. Sam Perkins 115.89 PF 1453 .080 -We start to get some daylight in career value

10 Days from Arrested Development

2013-05-16T17:53:00.002-04:00

All the AD talk is freaking me out a little bit.

The 100 Best Players in Basketball History, Part 5

2013-05-15T22:33:00.002-04:00

The previous installment is here. Previous installment is 80. Allen Iverson 106.27 PG 985 .108 Above Hill and McGrady…above Bosh given the overall value…above Moncrief but that’s it, no, I’m wrong, above Lucas too, the per game difference isn’t that big. He goes in right after KJ. 79. Alex English 107.18

The 100 Best Players in Basketball History, Part 4

2013-05-14T22:25:00.002-04:00

Previous installment is here. . 90 players to go. 90. Jason Terry 101.29 SG 1194 .085 He gets in there between Jimmy Jones and Mason. 89. Dennis Rodman 101.53 PF 1080 .094 Right ahead of Hersey Hawkins. 88. Tracy McGrady 101.77 G 986 .103 The first player with 100 wins and a .1/game average is

Mickey Mantle's Corked Bat

2013-05-14T14:57:00.002-04:00

I assume Hall of Fame voters will mount a campaign to have him removed from Cooperstown.

The 100 Best Players in Basketball History, Part 3

2013-05-13T22:45:00.000-04:00

The previous installment is here. We hit the top 100 for career value. Here’s the first ten. 100.Andre Miller 97.95 PG 1178 .083 He’ll be below Worthy and above Dumars. Below Lewis…the career value is enough to put him above Marques Johnson. 99. Terry Cummings 98.12 PF 1293 .076 Below PJ Brown…but ahead

Kobashi.

2013-05-13T21:58:00.003-04:00

Thanks.

2013 MLB All Stars - At the Quarter Pole

2013-05-13T16:00:00.002-04:00

Current All Star Starters+top reserves. I'll do this again at the 60 game mark and then do my full rosters, starters/reserves, at 80 games. AL C JMauer, CSantana 1B CDavis, JLoney 2B IKinsler, RCano SS JPeralta JLowrie 3B ELongoria MMachado LF VWells, MTrout CF CCrisp, MSaunders RF SVictorino, RRaburn P CBuchholz, FHernandez, NL C BPosey, RMartin 1B PGoldschmidt, JVotto 2B CUtley, MCarpenter

MLB Playoff Predictions - At the Quarter Pole

2013-05-13T15:34:00.000-04:00

We're 40 games in (38 for SFG, actually, but today's a good day to do this) time for our first look at the season. Here are the updated picks. AL East NYY AL Central Detroit (best record) AL West Texas WC - Tampa, Boston NL East Atlanta NL Central Cincinnati (best record) NL West SFG WC - St Louis, Wash I picked Tigers/Reds before the season, no reason to move from that.

This is Not Tendown, May 12 2013

2013-05-12T16:48:00.001-04:00

Dear Internet: And so it ends. I mean, probably, I don't know. The cultural velocity has increased in the years since I started the weekly recap; while simultaneously my ability to craft a response worth reading has diminished, due to a lack of time and probably (gasp) ability. I started tweeting this week @JimJividen, and that will serve my need to share links and offer abbreviated

The 100 Best Players in Basketball History, Part II

2013-05-12T16:12:00.000-04:00

The previous installment is here. We’re looking for a list of the 100 best basketball players ever. The starting position was the top 150 career win share totals (all possible win shares combined). Right now we’re through the 80 win share players from the top 150 (not all the 80 win share players made it, including some active players who would fare very well were they included – once they

The 100 Best Players in Basketball History

2013-05-12T09:37:00.000-04:00

Part one is here. The goal is a good list of the best 100 players in basketball history; we started with the list of the top 94 for career value; let’s add the next 56, to get us to 150 and battle it out. (Billy Cunningham is top career value not to make it). 150. Gail Goodrich 83.1 SG 1111 .075 So, what does that mean? Gail Goodrich is 150th for overall career value in basketball

The 94 Players in Basketball History With 100 Wins

2013-05-11T17:34:00.000-04:00

By Win Shares, there are 94 players in basketball history with 100 wins. This list combines NBA and ABA. It combines playoffs and regular season. This is entirely cumulative value, not a rate stat in any way; Robert Parish is ranked higher than George Mikan because he has more win shares. That he did so in hundreds of additional games isn't a component of this list. That's the next one.

Top 100 NFL Players of 2013 #80-71.

2013-05-10T14:20:00.000-04:00

90-81 is here. NFL Net List 80. D.Freeney DE Unemployed (no job in May? Not on my list) 79. L.Kuechly ILB Carolina (much higher on my list, I've got him as second best ILB in league) 78. J. Staley T San Francisco (not on my list, I've got him #107) 77. A.Hernandez TE NEngland (on my list, already appeared) 76. M.Stafford QB Detroit (not on my list, I've got him #108) 75. B.Flowers CB KC (on my

The Last Time the Warriors Won in San Antonio

2013-05-09T08:28:00.001-04:00

...the Spurs leading scorer... ...was Dominique Wilkins.

I've seen 5 four star wrestling matches in the past three days.

2013-05-05T09:04:00.000-04:00

Kingston v. Cesaro WWE May 4 Suwama v. Sanada AJPW April 4 1/4 Kotaro/Aoki v. Minoru/Kanemoto AJPW April 4 1/4 Anderson v. Elgin ROH May 4 Richards v. O'Reilly ROH May 4 1/4

God's New Team

2013-05-03T15:58:00.002-04:00

I've been a Golden St Warriors fan decades longer than Mark Jackson's been their head coach. I'll be a Warriors fan after he's gone. But it's his theology that counts. Whether its crediting a win to his god or having his wife pray over Stephen Curry's ankle, this year's Warriors team is the latest professional sports organization to publicly dedicate itself Christian, and it does so around

Top 100 NFL Players of 2013 #90-81

2013-05-03T14:26:00.000-04:00

100-91 is here. NFL Net List 90. P. Harvin WR Seattle (didn't make my list, he'd be 106) 89. C. Wake DE Miami (on my list, much higher) 88. J.Jones WR Balt (not on my list) 87. B. Pollard S Balt (not on my list) 86. L. Fletcher ILB Wash (was on my list last year, but not this; I've got 7 inside linebackers) 85. C. Woodson CB Unemployed (hard to say a guy without a job in May is going to be one

Athlete of the Month, April 2013

2013-04-29T08:56:00.001-04:00

March was here. Justin Upton. Runners-up: Luke Hancock, Carmello Anthony, Andy Scott 4 months down Three months down:Jan - Colin KaepernickFeb - Joe FlaccoMar - LeBron James Apri - Justin Upton

The Occasional Tendown April 28, 2013

2013-04-28T14:39:00.003-04:00

Dear Internet: We're less than one month out. 155 is here. This is Tendown 156 1. Right About Boston. ...Is Greenwald: There seems to be this pervasive belief in the US that we can invade, bomb, drone, kill, occupy, and tyrannize whomever we want, and that they will never respond. That isn't how human affairs function and it never has been. If you believe all that militarism and

Top 100 NFL Players of 2013 #100-91

2013-04-28T12:51:00.003-04:00

NFL Network's now annual ranking of the best players in the league began its roll out. In advance of that, as part of my draft prep I put together my Top 100. I'll unveil mine section by section along with the programming. Good times. NFL Network List: 100. D.Pitta TE Balt (not on my list, I've got 4 TEs) 99. T.Williams T Wash (not on my list, I've got 6 Ts) 98. M. Jones-Drew RB Jax (on my