Terrific regular season, in The League. The Celtics breakthrough, the Lakers’ rise, the crazy scrum in the Western Conference. Blockbuster trades. It was going to lead to great playoffs, almost inevitably. Had to. When these great teams begin meeting each other. Oh, yes. Instead, we’re looking at one lopsided game after another, only one seven-game […]

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I freelanced a story for the Deseret News (of Salt Lake City) out of Game 2 of the Lakers-Jazz series on Wednesday night. I’ve written for other newspapers hundreds of times. No exaggeration. But this might have been the first time that I wrote about a team that was playing against a hometown team. It […]

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