Basketball from a fan’s perspective

Exhibition play

Real play begins next week, it will not occur without scrimmage games, teams began play on Wednesday July 22.  Because these games do not show up on the schedule, we are unable to provide you a heads up.  As for Wednesday:

Orlando at Clippers,

Wizards at Nuggets,

Pelicans at Nets,

Kings at Heat  

The other guys

There has been so much media coverage on the missing Knicks head coach perhaps we forgot about the other guys.  We are about to do a re-start next week and the Knicks have no head coach, well the other New York team has no head coach either.  I am watching the Pelicans-Nets game on NBA TV; I did not turn the game on at the beginning so maybe this next item was covered.  During a break Jacque Vaughn was being interviewed, my thought, “Did they hire Vaughn and I missed it?”  Well not exactly a quick internet search indicated Vaughn is serving in the role of interim head coach.  A week from the start of the season and the New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets have no head coach, interesting.   

The Hawks

Atlanta has been home for the Hawks franchise since 1968 however this was not always the case.  The team had New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Georgia in its history through several cities since its founding.  The team had its beginning in 1946 as the Buffalo Bisons but did not remain in New York.  After 38 days in New York State they moved to Moline Illinois and were re-named the Tri-City Blackhawks, the other two cities were Rock Island Illinois and Davenport Iowa. 

The Blackhawks were a founding NBL team but moved into the NBA with the 1949 merger between the NBL and BAA.  The legendary Red Auerbach once served as head coach while the team represented the Tri-Cities.  In 1951 the owner moved the team to Milwaukee, and they were re-named the Hawks, they remained in the northern Midwest city until 1955 when they moved again.  This time it was 5 hours and 31 minutes road miles south to reside in St. Louis where they remained until 1968 and the move to Atlanta.  So, there you have it the history of the Buffalo/Tri-Cities/Milwaukee/St. Louis/Atlanta Hawks.   

A missed wedding

We have one more instance of this pandemic impacting life, this time it is a wedding.  Rest assured this is not the first wedding however it is in the public eye due to one of the individuals.  Alex Caruso’s older sister will not have his presence when she marries.  Caruso a reserve guard with the Lakers looked at specifics before deciding to remain in Orlando.  This is a planned indoor wedding with 1,000 family and guests, secondly the State of Texas plus Arizona and Florida are hotbeds for the virus.  Finally, if Caruso left the “NBA Bubble” he would have been quarantined upon his return.  We must believe these three factors possibly others might have impacted Caruso's decision to miss the wedding.