Greg Oden: Blogging at YardBarker

Greg Oden, the recent number one NBA draft selection, has a blog. He writes at YardBarker. - It is really nice that, in one of his posting, he says “thank you“. Hopefully, the NBA will not extinguish that part of Greg Oden’s approach to people. It is a good, brief glimpse at what it is like to enter into professional basketball, at the highest level. I think he was impressed with having dinner with Steve Nash. - It is good to meet the point guard who, for the next few years, will make life miserable for him.

There are two other blogs that are NBA related. One is Mark Madsen’s blog at Mad Dog Blog. He writes well and it is an insightful look at life in the NBA. You will note that, in the right hand column, Mark has some Google ads. I think that is so cool - perhaps, like the majority of the netizens, Mark is trying to make the Google ads pay for hosting fees. He just seems like a very nice person.

The other blog is by Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks. He posts at The Mark Cuban Weblog. - One might not agree with Mark Cuban always but he does state his point of view candidly. He does not seem to hesitate to be a ‘free thinker’. Undoubtedly, that approach has earned him millions and millions of dollars in business - and has made him one of the most penalized-by-fines of all the NBA owners. The postings are not all sports related. Some of the postings deal with technology, with business, with the current zeitgeist… it is never dull there. And that might be an apt description of Mark Cuban.

Those are currently three NBA related sites that I visit. Any recommendations?

Catherine Forsythe

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