Keane Shum
In the paint: NBA Eastern Conference picks

Training camps around the NBA began Tuesday and already players are getting arrested and not telling their teams about a broken hand here and there. […]

Ewing not deserving of spot on list of NBA greats

I was watching the Orlando Magic on television sometime in the middle of last season, shaking my head at how good Tracy McGrady had become. […]

The NBA and Anna, a not-so-odd couple

You may have noticed that this year’s U.S. Open and the World Championship of Basketball took place at the same time. Undoubtedly, you cared more […]

Dream over for Team USA after losses at World Championships

Everyone has to lose sometimes, even Americans. Sports history was made on Wednesday and Thursday nights, when first Argentina and then Yugoslavia upset the United […]

For NBA, June’s still a mystery

Tell me this isn’t exciting. A week into the 2002 NBA Playoffs, half of the series (and maybe three-fourths by the time you read this) […]

NBA set for memorable postseason

I don’t want to hear any more complaints about the NBA. All year long, it’s been, “pro basketball is so boring,” or “the only exciting […]

MJ’s the man even his 3rd time around

I took a trip down to the Meadowlands on Tuesday to watch the New Jersey Nets take on Michael Jordan. Of course, the day after […]

No Kidding, Ben Wallace should be NBA’s MVP

Jason Kidd is going to be the NBA’s regular season MVP. He has almost single-handedly turned the Nets’ franchise around, doubling their win total from […]

What’s in a name at the Final Four

I awake once a year from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed at my TV into a gigantic college hoops fan. The metamorphosis lasts but […]

‘Tigerfan,’ ‘Big Ed’: check your own facts

I wrote a short column on Yale basketball two weeks ago that received 12 online responses in less than two days. Most of them were […]

Jazz are no remedy for basketball’s midseason lull

I thought I had it all planned out. When the NBA reached its lull period of the season — 50-some games in, after All-Star Weekend, […]