Posts by Chris Ryan
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NBA Short-Attention-Span Power Rankings: Mountain Range
A survey of the players and teams making moves in last night’s NBA action. 1. The 3-Point Shooting of the Denver Nuggets Sometime during the second quarter of last night’s Clippers-Nuggets game, I did a Twitter search for “zone is for cowards.” This term, coined (I believe) by Bomani Jones, is something I actually agree […]
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NBA Short-Attention-Span Power Rankings: It’s a Young Man’s Game
A survey of the players and teams making moves in last night’s NBA action. 1. Reggie Jackson Robert Mays: Because Russell Westbrook was playing in a basketball game last night, the broadcast team was contractually obligated to engage in the Most Athletic Point Guard Ever discussion at some point in the telecast. Usually, Westbrook’s now […]
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: House of Cards, Summer Disaster Movies
It turns out that Chris Ryan and I are slow bingers. One month after the entire first season of House of Cards was dumped onto Netflix’s servers like a half-rack of ribs at Freddy’s, we finally managed to digest all 13 episodes. If we held back in the watching, though, we certainly didn’t in the […]
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NBA Short-Attention-Span Power Rankings: Oh, Deer!
A survey of the players and teams making moves in last night’s NBA action. 1. Monta Ellis Ellis had 34 points on 15-21 shooting last night, leading his Milwaukee team to their second overtime win in as many games (this time over the Jazz), and their fourth straight win overall. With J.J. Redick in the […]
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NBA Short-Attention-Span Power Rankings: The Rolling Thunder Revue
A survey of the players and teams making moves in last night’s NBA action. 1. Nasty Boys Sunday afternoon, after the Thunder suppressed a late-game Clippers insurrection on the road in L.A., our own Rembert Browne tweeted this: i never realized how obnoxious these thunder players were until this game. — Rembert Browne (@rembert) March […]
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NBA Short-Attention-Span Power Rankings: The Best Point Guard in the Universe
A survey of the players and teams making moves in last night’s NBA action. 1. Chris Paul Because it was a light night of action, and it’s a long day of piping-hot unique takes here on the Triangle, I’m not going to weigh you down with a ton of insight. I’m just going to rank […]
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Dimitar Berbatov Just Won the Harlem Shake Video Olympics
Sorry, Aleksandar Kolarov. Want to read more about this enigmatic figure? Check out Hua Hsu’s piece from earlier this year.
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NBA Short-Attention-Span Power Rankings: #GETOFFME
A survey of the players and teams making moves in last night’s NBA action. 1. LeBron James And that was just pregame. Man, this was a real #getoffme kind of night. Everybody was like, “GET. OFF. ME. #GETOFFME.” Either on the court or off, a few of the games had an almost playoff-type feel, even […]
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Sorry for Partying: A List of Possible Reasons for Rob Gronkowski’s Arm Infection
Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski had surgery on his forearm last week to clean up an infection. These are the kinds of things that happen when your arm is operated on three times in three months. But Gronk being Gronk, we feel like there are some extra-medical reasons for his infectch. Here is a list […]
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And Now We Praise Mike Woodson’s Mike Woodson T-shirt
Mike Woodson just went in my cool book. (h/t to Chris Herring at the Wall Street Journal)
