Tag: Boylan Loves Basketball

  • Sometimes it is as simple as it looks

    Sometimes it is as simple as it looks

    Shai Gilgouse-Alexander was recently voted the Most Valuable Player (MVP) in the NBA for 2024/’25 season. Before said campaign had even tipped off, his coach at the Oklahoma City Thunder, Mark Dagenhault, was the defending holder of the equivalent gong among coaches. With the duo just after masterminding and conducting the Thunder’s annexation of a…

  • The curiosities of NBA discipline

    The curiosities of NBA discipline

    Did you ever notice yourself changing and not be able to quite figure out why? For example, when I was younger, the mere smell of things like coleslaw, potato salad or beetroot would have me dry reaching in seconds. Whereas now, any of the above would happily be tore into. With the only slight proviso…

  • American Contradictions

    American Contradictions

    Temetrius Jamel ‘Ja’ Morant. If you’re not an aficionado of NBA Basketball, you may not have heard of him, and, if you have, it might not have been in the best of contexts. The Memphis Grizzlies point guard, for those no au fait with the fast-paced, five-a-side action, think midfielder in GAA or soccer or…