Wes Goldberg

1 week ago | wesgoldberg.substack.com | Wes Goldberg

On RealGM Radio, I went through my NBA awards ballot and the reasoning for my picks. But here’s the TL;DL version. I won’t bore you with my explanations (slash I will make you listen to the pod).

1 week ago | allucanheat.com | Wes Goldberg

This game comes down to one thing. Pace. The Miami Heat are 0-3 against the Chicago Bulls this season. It’s a bad matchup for them, but it’s the one they’ll have to overcome to make the playoffs. The Heat face the Bulls in Chicago on Wednesday as part of the play-in tournament. The game is at 7:30 pm ET and will be televised on ESPN. It will be exactly a week between their last regular-season matchup and this win-or-go-home 9-10 play-in game. If the Heat lose, their season is over.

3 weeks ago | allucanheat.com | Wes Goldberg

Three observations from the Heat's win over the Celtics. Three observations from the Miami Heat’s 124-103 win over the Boston Celtics at TD Garden on Wednesday night, their sixth in a row. 1. Pelle Larsson finishing through contactIt’s rare you see a rookie wing finish through contact. Mostly because they are, like, smaller than the grown men they are playing against. Don’t tell that to Pelle Larsson, who went chest-to-chest with Jayson Tatum in mid-air and made the layup.

4 weeks ago | basketball.realgm.com | Wes Goldberg

It’s March, which means Tanking is the NBA’s subject du jour. “Can the NBA fix tanking?” has been, is, and will be the subject of many a podcast segment and column – including this one! What I find curious about the league’s tanking issue is that this seems to be purely an NBA problem. The NFL, MLB and NHL all have essentially the same system that rewards the very worst teams with the very best picks.

1 month ago | wesgoldberg.substack.com | Wes Goldberg

I want to talk about firsts. There are two kinds of firsts. There are the breakthroughs that were necessary but laid the groundwork for society to improve upon them. Henry Ford’s Model T, for instance. A revelation at the time, but not something you’d want to drive in the carpool lane on the 680. Thanks to the Model T, we can now drive comfortably thanks to scientific marvels like GPS, air-conditioning, and ass-warming seats. Then there’s the other kind of first. The one that got it right, right away.