The wow factor that undefined elixir that makes the greatest skeptic bow down to the engineering marvel that is the pyramids of Egypt. The wow factor that makes Michael Jordan’s aerial assault on the basketball rim appear to be gravitational ballet suspended by invisible twine. The wow factor that is Niagara Falls crashing boundlessly in a blanket of wet foam while generating electricity to the northeast of the United States, and this same wow factor that puts geneticists in awe at the beyond microscopic code to life known as human …

Paul Pierce. Ray Allen. Kevin Garnett. That’s a pretty fearsome threesome … back in 2003-04. Ray-Ray and KG’s Player Efficiency Ratings were at their highest at around that time, while PP’s second highest PER was in 2003. No doubt their stellar performances led to their appearance in Atari’s Backyard Basketball 2004 (I got my copy from a cereal box a couple years ago), and no doubt Danny Ainge is a big fan of the game, too.
How else to explain why Ainge has put so much stock (and salary) into these …

As I mentioned in my last post, a number of us basketbloggers were in the Hoops Addict Fantasy League last season. Fun was had, friends (and enemies - you know who you are) were made. How to enhance the experience for next year? I sent a survey to my fellow fantasy GMs to get their opinions. Here are the results:
1. Where do you want to play? Rate on a scale of 1 (most preferred) to 4 (least preferred).
Last season: Ultimate Fantasy Commissioner (UFC).
Next season: Yahoo! (average rating 1.46), UFC (2.07), …