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Straightening Up

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May 12, 2026
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In scoring 39 points in the second half of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ 112-103 Game 4 victory over the Detroit Pistons, Donovan Mitchell matched an NBA playoff record that he now shares with a Golden State Warrior: nope, it is not Wardell in this case. Sleepy Floyd, a Gastonia native who was once “misled” into a diplomatic trip to the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea with Dennis Rodman, posted the same number against the eventual champion Los Angeles Lakers in the 1987 West Semis.

Sticking on the floor through the final buzzer just in case, Mitchell finished with 43 points after a down first half in which Detroit had him swimming around defenders. When Cleveland went on a 24-0 run splitting the halves, Don poured in 15, shifting into the playoff mode to which we have grown accustomed between Salt Lake and here.

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“But there is in win”

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May 20, 2020
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Courtesy ESPN

Wouldn’t it be something if Michael Jordan said what he meant? Not “nice,” almost certainly, but something more than the expected, eyeroll-inducing megalomania his brand and public face have come to represent over the past forty years. He did it all because he wanted it the most; his competitiveness is lost on nearly everyone surrounding him, both teammates and opposition; the extent of his sense of humor exclusively including the very idea that he is Michael Jordan, which makes it impossible for anyone else in history to be Michael Jordan. That’s funny, to him.

If The Last Dance was supposed to prove anything, it was that Jordan’s legacy is as close to unimpeachable as that of any sports figure so far, regardless of his Machiavellian worldview. What it managed to do instead was maybe, possibly make him look worse than anyone else prominently featured. We know he doesn’t care, nor, I guess, should he.

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The Space Between

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January 6, 2015
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From sports.yahoo.com

Trading away team headcases is a time-honored NBA tradition. From Dennis Rodman’s Detroit exit in 1993 (and then from San Antonio to Chicago in 1995) to Ron Artest’s unceremonious trade out of Indiana in 2005, getting rid of serviceable but troublesome players allows both teams and players to move on from the skeletons of a marriage gone awry. In situations like these, a player’s future success (Rodman’s with the later three-peat Bulls, Artest’s with the Lakers) tends not to cast the trade in a bad light because the team had decided it simply could not function the same way anymore.

On Monday, two teams expurgated veritable Anthony Fremonts, as the Cleveland Cavaliers dealt Dion Waiters to the Oklahoma City Thunder while acquiring J.R. Smith from the New York Knicks as part of a three-team trade which also involved Iman Shumpert. Both Smith and Waiters had endured franchise-altering waves in the last few months, and now each is set to test exactly how much a change of scenery can do to help a player’s psyche, to the betterment or detriment of their new teams.

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