Posts by Chris Ryan

  • The Shootaround: NBA News, Notes, and Marvin’s Room

    Whisper While You Work Imagine if every year, your workplace went through layoffs and employee reviews the week before and after Christmas. That light at the end of the tunnel is in touching distance, it’s all gift wrap and roasting chestnuts and holiday parties, and then, all of a sudden, your job is thrown into […]

  • Andres Villas-Boas

    The Reducer: Week 26, Money, Power, Respect

    On Chelsea’s bizarre season.

  • Rankonia: The Triangle Power Rankings

    1. Deron Williams, A Chip on His Shoulder the Size of the Ritz Nominated by David Jacoby for “trying to launch Williamsanity at MSG.” Williams scored 38 for the Nets in their victory over their cross-river rivals, the Knicks. He did so with a gleam in his eye that looked like he was avenging a […]

  • Dirty Work: Justified Season 3, Episode 6

    Justified isn’t exactly known for its nonviolent conflict resolution. So calling an episode of this show “When the Guns Come Out” is kind of like naming an episode of Friday Night Lights “When We Improbably Win a Football Game at the Last Second.” There was plenty of gunplay (though, not enough Gunplay) in this sixth […]

  • The NBA’s Seasonal Affective Disorder

    It gets dark at 3:30 p.m., it’s either raining, or freezing, and sometimes it’s doing both. Every day looks the same because every day looks like you just stepped out of your house and walked into The Road. It’s seasonal affective disorder. And it’s enough to make you fire up the Leonard Cohen and pull […]

  • The Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: The Simpsons, Friday Night Lights, Oscars, and More

    The Hollywood Prospectus podcast is now weekly and free to cover any topics in the pop culture universe. To celebrate, Chris Ryan and I talked … mostly about TV! Our conversation ranged from The Simpsons’ 500th episode to whether a Friday Night Lights movie is a good idea (we even supplied some better ones; you’re […]

  • Jeremy Lin: The Musical

    Let the multi-platform celebration of the life and times of Jeremy Lin begin. Broadway actor Kevin Yee has “created” a new musical called Jeremy Lin: The Musical. It is, according to Yee, a “fictional reimagining of the first time New York Knicks superstar Jeremy Lin proved himself on the basketball court.” You want to know […]

  • Nick Young Crashed a Wedding

    Some headlines write themselves, and then those headlines also write the blog posts that they are attached to. This is one of those headlines, and this is one of those blog posts. This all comes to us, as most of these things do, from the Washington Post, whose reporters continue to bravely carry on from […]

  • Corey Maggette Makes the Worst Turnover Ever

    Apologies up front for missing this clip. We’re a little late. Our bad. The video is from a Clips-Bobcats game from this past Saturday. Bobcats games are largely embargoed where I live, on the off-chance impressionable youths see it and develop a deep, flammable hatred for basketball. Watching this clip of Corey Maggette quite clearly […]

  • J.R. Smith

    J.R. Smith Has Chosen a Team!!!!!!

    America! Make sure your seat backs and tray tables are in an upright and locked position and turn off all electronic devices. J.R. Smith is COMING IN FOR A LANDING.

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