NBA Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/nba Small-Batch Journalism & Comment Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:47:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-BNyb0KwmkKGrHgoH-C8EjlLlhlGBJrZchZqHQ_35-32x32.jpg NBA Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/nba 32 32 Ernie D Built the Big East, One Local College Basketball Broadcast at a Time https://www.halphillips.net/ernie-d-was-an-adorable-pro-but-does-the-big-east-even-happen-without-him?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ernie-d-was-an-adorable-pro-but-does-the-big-east-even-happen-without-him https://www.halphillips.net/ernie-d-was-an-adorable-pro-but-does-the-big-east-even-happen-without-him#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:46:39 +0000 https://www.halphillips.net/?p=5315 PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Jan. 5, 2024) — It’s never too late to mark and quantify the impact of Ernie DiGregorio. Not in New England. Not when the subject is college basketball. Yet here’s the immediate news peg, the reason to contemplate Ernie D and his attendant rabbit hole early in 2024: It was 50 years ago […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/ernie-d-was-an-adorable-pro-but-does-the-big-east-even-happen-without-him/feed 1 NBA Bubble Splendidly Unmoored from Post-Season Predictability https://www.halphillips.net/nba-bubble-splendidly-unmoored-from-post-season-predictability?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nba-bubble-splendidly-unmoored-from-post-season-predictability https://www.halphillips.net/nba-bubble-splendidly-unmoored-from-post-season-predictability#respond Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:06:35 +0000 https://www.halphillips.net/?p=4154 When I sat down in late August to write this essay — about neutral courts and how they’ve made the 2020 NBA Bubble Playoffs the most wide-open, unpredictable tournament the league has ever conducted — turns out I didnot know the half of it. Less than 48 hours later, police in Kenosha, Wisconsin shot Jacob […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/nba-bubble-splendidly-unmoored-from-post-season-predictability/feed 0 Greetings to Mr. Morey, NBA & The West: Welcome back to The Middle Kingdom https://www.halphillips.net/hello-world-welcome-back-to-the-middle-kingdom?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hello-world-welcome-back-to-the-middle-kingdom https://www.halphillips.net/hello-world-welcome-back-to-the-middle-kingdom#respond Fri, 11 Oct 2019 20:44:33 +0000 https://www.halphillips.net/?p=3750 HOUSTON, Texas (Oct. 11, 2019) — There’s a reason China has long referred to itself as The Middle Kingdom. Daryl Morey, the NBA and frankly much of Western Civilization is beginning to understand what that meant and what it means today. As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Morey is the general manager of the […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/hello-world-welcome-back-to-the-middle-kingdom/feed 0 Bob Ryan Retires: All Hail the All-Time NBA Sage https://www.halphillips.net/bob-ryan-retires-all-hail-the-all-time-nba-sage?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bob-ryan-retires-all-hail-the-all-time-nba-sage https://www.halphillips.net/bob-ryan-retires-all-hail-the-all-time-nba-sage#respond Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:31:21 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=1474 The encomia are surely piling up across the web, but I couldn’t let slide the fact that Bob Ryan has retired from The Boston Globe as full-time basketball sage and de facto Commissioner of all things hoops (a title bestowed decades ago, by his fellow scribes). Here’s a link to his farewell column, delivered Aug. […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/bob-ryan-retires-all-hail-the-all-time-nba-sage/feed 0 Fullcourt Pod: NBA Playoff Chat for April 25, 2011 https://www.halphillips.net/fullcourt-pod-nba-playoff-chat-for-april-25-2011?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fullcourt-pod-nba-playoff-chat-for-april-25-2011 https://www.halphillips.net/fullcourt-pod-nba-playoff-chat-for-april-25-2011#respond Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:32:55 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=492 It’s NBA Playoff time, about midway through Round I, and so we take stock of key developments courtesy of  Fullcourt Pod’s resident near-savants, Hal Phillips and Jammin’ James W. Jackson Jr. This week’s fixation and jumping-off point is Laker Coach Phil Jackson‘s indifference toward defending Chris Paul — or should we say inability? 2011.04.25 Fullcourt […]

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