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We Like Obscure NBA Players: Andrew Declercq

We Like Obscure NBA Players: Andrew Declercq

Today, we cover one of TNLP’s favorite players who, surprisingly, has not made the obscure player roster yet. Andrew DeClercq was a power forward and center out of the University of Florida. Following a junior season where he led the Gators to the Final Four, he was a second-round draft choice by the Golden State Warriors in 1995 as the… Read more →

We Like Obscure NBA Players: Kelvin Upshaw

We Like Obscure NBA Players: Kelvin Upshaw

Kelvin Upshaw’s name sounds familiar when you hear it. But unless you are a Boston fan from 1988, you don’t remember Upshaw vividly as the guy who took out Larry Bird in summer camp, fracturing a bone in Larry Legend’s back. If you have to be infamous for something, it might as well be that. Upshaw’s career was brief but… Read more →

We Like Obscure NBA Players: Frank Kornet

We Like Obscure NBA Players: Frank Kornet

Frank Kornet has a cool name. It rolls off the tongue easily. But outside of his name jumping off a few Fleer and Topps basketball cards, there wasn’t much to Frank Kornet’s NBA career. Hailing from Lexington, Ky., and putting in a full four years at Vanderbilt University, where he was named to the all-Southeastern Conference team his senior year,… Read more →

Bullet Passes (11/30/12): Pop Knows Best

Bullet Passes (11/30/12): Pop Knows Best

Hello and welcome to this Friday’s edition of the Bullet Passes. Fridays mean I phone it in and call it a day; not that I haven’t been doing that all week or anything. But there isn’t much in the way of news today anyway, so there isn’t a whole lot to talk about. There is the David Stern/Gregg Popovich thing…. Read more →

Bullet Passes (11/29/12): Rondo Got Your Back

Bullet Passes (11/29/12): Rondo Got Your Back

Good afternoon and welcome to the Bullet Passes, where the chances of David Stern reading this are dramatically slim. Cancer being cured in the next 12 hours has a better chance of happening than him reading this in the next five years, me getting married to Lauren Jackson has a way higher percentage.  But I digress. Shall we get started?… Read more →

Bullet Passes (11/26/12): Star Light, Star Bright

Bullet Passes (11/26/12): Star Light, Star Bright

Good afternoon, or evening, and welcome to the Bullet Passes. I hope you enjoyed your long weekend along with all the shopping and door busters that came along with it. But now it’s back to the grind, albeit during the holiday season when cheer should be at its maximum, which is a good thing. Check that, a great thing. Here’s… Read more →