by Matt Zemek | May 14, 2015
Let’s get something straight at the outset: The Atlanta Hawks and the Washington Wizards are good basketball teams. The Hawks won 60 regular-season contests. That takes talent. The Wizards have fought well in the playoffs with John Wall either out or battling...
by Matt Zemek | May 12, 2015
In this and every American sports springtime, the glory of the NBA and NHL playoffs is revealed in a number of specific moments. Naturally, Game 7s stand apart. Game 6s in which the lower seed is trying to close out a series occupy another lofty place in our...
by Matt Zemek | May 11, 2015
If the 2015 NBA Playoffs have told us anything about the league’s head coaches, they’ve generally affirmed the conventional wisdom on a number of fronts. Doc Rivers: elite. David Blatt, as Crossover Chronicles writer Joseph Nardone explained, is...
by Matt Zemek | May 10, 2015
The 2015 NBA Playoffs are becoming a blur, in which one game feels strangely like another. They’re also becoming a volatile postseason journey unlike anything since the late 1970s. There are so many things to say about these playoffs, now that four lower seeds...
by Matt Zemek | May 8, 2015
Human life is complicated and messy. Accordingly, so is sportswriting and the subsequent attempt to assess sportswriters. Anyone who puts views on paper or in cyberspace for a living is constantly subjecting himself (or herself) to criticism. “I could write that...
