But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.

Coffee is the highlight of my day. After coffee everything is downhill.

One of my favorite things about basketball is that you can't break it down into some sort of science that makes total sense.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.

You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.

Brook Lopez had a better game than Deron Williams