2017-10-02
Live Thread: Wine & Gold Scrimmage, and Help Wanted
It’s that time of year again. That’s right, preseason basketball is back! If you’re like me you can’t wait to…
Fresh Since 2009.
Fresh Since 2009.
It’s that time of year again. That’s right, preseason basketball is back! If you’re like me you can’t wait to…
Two friends I loved like a brother and sister got divorced last year. Last night someone who’d just found out about it texted me wondering what happened. “Things Fall Apart,” I said, with a nod to Keats and Achebe. The simple answer is the easiest, but behind every decision to walk away, there’s a story. We rarely know all of anyone’s story but our own, and we’re often not self aware enough to even know that. In Kyrie Irving’s case, there’s far more we don’t know than what we do. So we speculate, and as the jilted ones, probably do so bitterly.
Welcome to Indian summer. As the temperature climbs back up into the 80s, the Tribe’s win total climbs into the 90s. They’re heading west with an off day on Monday, though, so it’s a good time to reflect on the bizarre summer we just witnessed… First up, Kyrie Irving’s strange appearance on ESPN’s First take. Irving mused on his his time in Cleveland his reasons for leaving, but mostly spent his time talking a lot without saying anything.
https://soundcloud.com/ctb-5/episode-144-millenium-edition Nate Smith, Tom Pestak, and Sam Meyer spent the first 2000 seconds of this pod gushing over the Tribe,…
We waited nine days to find out whether the Cavs/Celtics trade was going to go down or whether the Cavs were going to walk away due to Isaiah Thomas’ hip issue. Turns out that adding a minor piece to the deal was enough to get it done according to this WojBomb.
https://soundcloud.com/ctb-5/episode-143-until-we-meet-again-uncle-drew Happy Trails, Kyrie. With the news of Mr. Irving’s trade to the Celtics we sounded the conch and Tom…
Kyrie Irving asked the Cavs to trade him in a meeting last week, sources told ESPN. Story posting on https://t.co/b8H6X39PKb…
Editor’s Note, this originally was scheduled to run July 15th, but due to some technical difficulties is posting today. Thanks…
Editor’s Note: Thanks again to CLF for recapping this one.
Tuesday night, I chilled with NOMAD on CtB and watched the summer Cavs own the summer Warriors 91-74. The score is misleading, the Warriors were never in this game. Cavs are undefeated for the summer and were able to completely dominate two out of the three victories. Here are a few observations.
