I'm a fan of John Sterling. Long before Sterling began his 33-season (and counting) tenure as the lead radio voice of the New York Yankees in 1989, I was following his career.
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about baseball equivalents of a stat about the New York Nets' former big three, review Rob Manfred's comments to the press…
There are many oft-told tales about the Nets history of incompetence and bad luck. Every team has some of that, of course, but on Tuesday, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar retells a story of how he almost.
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Sometimes when you’re looking for other stuff, you stumble across an old article in which Michael Jordan is quoted giving thanks to a computer .
Forth Worth Star-Telegram (May 28, 1987)
. and then you gotta go figure out what the deal was there. So this is that.
I’m fascinated by the first chapter of Michael Jordan’s career. Before Jordan enjoyed the company of any star-level teammates, before his Chicago Bulls came even close to a championship, MJ’s statistical profile described a superstar performing basically alone. Jordan’s third season, 1986-87, represents the peak of this era. The year he turned 24, Jordan recorded the fifth-highest single-season usage rate in Basketball-Reference’s database, which goes back to 1978. And Jordan didn’t crank up his usage by hunting triple-doubles; Michael shot. His 3,041 points on 2,279 field goal attempts in ‘86-’87 are the single-season records for any NBA player not named Wilt Chamberlain, and that data goes all the w
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