All things Legendary
I have been fly fishing for almost five years now. I’ll never forget my first fish that got away. It was on the upper Provo River near the Murdoch Basin turnoff. Fishing streamers was still new to me and I had fairly light tippet on with my Muddler Minnow. I was casting my line straight […]
Don’t get me wrong, I love this Utah Jazz team, but I think there will be some changes. Your three pillars are Donovan Mitchell, Joe Ingles, and Rudy Gobert. They set the culture and are the core. But, what beyond that? I thought Ricky Rubio had a relatively good series. I couldn’t have expected better. […]
The NBA season has reached its halfway mark and the league has some players that are HOT and some that are NOT. HOT: James Harden With his recent scoring tear, James Harden has pushed his scoring average to 33.9 points per game. If Harden can maintain this pace, he will join Kobe Bryant (once) and […]
October basketball is in the books. NBA teams have now each played between six and nine games and here’s what we have learned so far. Steph Curry In the first nine games of the season, Curry is averaging 33.0 points on an effective field goal percentage of 70.1! The year Steph took home his unanimous […]
The NBA season tips off tonight as the Celtics take on the Sixers and the Thunder take on the defending champ Warriors. The wait for NBA basketball is finally over. Before the season starts, it’s always fun making predictions about what’s going to happen in the next 8 months. Here are a few of my […]
With NBA preseason now underway, fans around the league have high hopes for their teams. Some teams made a splash with off-season trades and signings (Lakers, Warriors, Rockets, Thunder), while others will rely on internal growth and health of their players (Jazz, Sixers, Celtics, Nuggets). Last year’s doormats will hope that their shiny, new draft […]
Thursday night, Lebron James continued to play at a legendary level by posting his record-tying eighth 40-point game in these Playoffs with his masterful 51-point-8-rebound-8-assist Game 1 in this year’s NBA Finals. Facebook and Twitter feeds have been flooded with the never-ending debate of whether Lebron has overtaken Michael Jordan as the GOAT, the greatest […]
I recently saw a stat that identified Ben Simmons as just the second player (Oscar Robertson was the first) to accumulate 1,000 points, 600 assists, and 600 rebounds as a rookie, an impressive accomplishment for sure. However, Robertson did have 900 more points than Simmons, was third in the NBA in scoring and led the […]
The Mitchell vs. Simmons Rookie of the Year debate is coming to a head. When the season started, most experts agreed that this was a particularly deep and talented rookie class, but Simmons was widely viewed as a lock to win the award. Mitchell was an afterthought as the 13th overall pick. Now, as we […]
I love the Utah Jazz. I was raised watching Stockton and Malone, living and dying with every game. Over the years, I developed some strong feelings about different teams. In this article I have ranked my most hated teams and my most hated player on each team. The order is based on my most hated […]
Lebron James is the greatest player to ever play the game. Yes, the day has come. It happens with all of the greats. A few years ago when die-hard Patriot fans started claiming that Tom Brady was the greatest quarterback ever, the counter to that was that he was not even the greatest quarterback of […]
The Jazz’s point guard situation is interesting. Who is the best fit in the Jazz’s offense? How does Mitchell’s emergence as the Jazz’s second building block along side Rudy Gobert, change the direction the Jazz should go at the point guard position? Is Mitchell a point guard or is he better suited as a two? […]
With 2017 in the rear view mirror and 2018 on the horizon, what should NBA fans be hoping for this year? 10-A competitive Finals. Regardless of what happens in the 2018 Finals, fans can look forward to either a new champion or witness one of the greatest dynasties in the history of team sports. As […]
Donovan Mitchell, the thirteenth pick in last summer’s NBA Draft has captured the imagination of Jazz fans and the respect of the NBA’s upper echelon. Through the end of 2017, Mitchell is leading all rookies in scoring and total points, and after a December where he averaged 23.1 points, 3.8 assists, 3.4 rebounds, and 1.8 […]
Grant Hill, Harold Miner, Jerry Stackhouse, Kobe Bryant, Vince Carter, and Dwyane Wade, were all at one point labeled “the next Michael Jordan.” The post-Jordan era saw several players dominate for a season or two, but there was no clear-cut, dominant figure that served as the face of the NBA. Shaq, Kobe, Garnett, Nash, Iverson, […]