I was kindly sent this link which explains lots about fines in the NBA. The people who sent it told me it's relevant to us because Mark Jackson just got fined $25,000 for trying to influence the refs with his two tirades about dirty ball in the playoffs. The league [...]
I don't understand the NBA board of governors (bored of governors) vetoing the three-team trade that would have sent Chris Paul to the Lakers. I really don't. The trade would have benefited all three teams. The Hornets would have gotten something for Paul -- after this season he can just [...]
This National Basketball Association work stoppage is a real puzzler although I notice life goes on without professional hoops. In the spirit of good-neighborliness and common sense, I wrote my Thursday column about the labor impasse giving a possible long term solution which is that the league should dump the [...]
This is Grant, and this is dedicated to KauaiRobert, Tiburon Dave, Gary, and everyone who said I don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to Jimmer Fredette. Andy Katz reported on ESPN about an hour ago that the Warriors are interested in Jimmer Fredette with the 11th pick. [...]
Bodog sent me these betting lines for the NBA championship 2012. Here are selected numbers you may find interesting. Heat are favored 5/2. Lakers are second 11/2. Mavs are fifth 10/1. And where are the Warriors? Tied for next to last with 6 other teams at 100/1. Raptors are dead [...]
This is the controversial statement LeBron James made after the Heat got beat by the Mavs: "All the people that was rooting on me to fail, at the end of the day, they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up [...]
I wrote my Tuesday column about the rise of Dirk Nowitzki and the fall of LeBron James -- and believe me LeBron James had quite a fall in the finals against the Dallas Mavericks. He could not deliver. When a guy makes an entrance like that -- a TV special [...]
I'm sitting here at the Giants game but I've been cheating and watching the Mavs beat the Heat on a pressbox TV. Good for Dallas. I began rooting for them -- rare for me to root -- after Wade and James made fun of Nowitzki's flu. They pretended to have [...]
I'm sitting here watching the NBA finals and listening to Mark Jackson. Jackson uses the "if you're" construction incessantly. Listen to the guy. He says if you're Lebron James you have to do such and such. If you're Eric Spoelstra blah blah. He also says if I'm so and so [...]
I'm picking the Heat in 6 games. I figure they're too talented for the Mavericks. The Mavericks are great at zipping the ball around and finding the open shooter -- lots of open 3-pointers for the Mavs. I think the Heat can stop that ball movement and I don't think [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.