Here in Washington, we have a recently renamed football team, a less recently renamed basketball team, and a fairly recently renamed baseball team (after its move from Montreal). All of those names suck and suck badly, but at least they're not stupid. Cardinals aren't unique to St. Louis, so Arizona can be excused for keeping the name. Rams, Raiders--not location-specific. Carolina had the sense to change the Whalers to the Hurricanes, and Tennessee only spent a couple seasons as the Oilers before switching to Titans. The stupidest name-keeping was the Lakers--Minnesota is the Land of 10,000 Lakes, LA is the land of smog and douchebag fans. But only second to that is the Jazz: Charlotte and New Orleans did a little dance that made perfect sense--Charlotte's team was the Hornets before they moved, and Louisiana is the Pelican State, but they should have gotten the Jazz name back and let Utah become the Polygamists or something.
Jazz is awesome, but there is none in Salt Lake City because Utah is decidedly not awesome--they even require bars to put meters on their liquor bottles to ensure they dispense no more than one ounce per cocktail. So, tonight at the Garden we get back to our winning ways. Utah won't be a pushover--the team has won six of its past seven games and nine of its past 12, having put up 154 points on Wednesday. As hard as it is for me to take Finnish basketball players seriously, Lauri Markkanen is legit. But we also haven't lost back-to-backs since Novembet, and it's not happening again tonight.
7:00 tip, NBCSB/League Pass. Horford questionable per Jay King, owing to the B2B with tomorrow night's game in Indy. Win.
Jazz is awesome, but there is none in Salt Lake City because Utah is decidedly not awesome--they even require bars to put meters on their liquor bottles to ensure they dispense no more than one ounce per cocktail. So, tonight at the Garden we get back to our winning ways. Utah won't be a pushover--the team has won six of its past seven games and nine of its past 12, having put up 154 points on Wednesday. As hard as it is for me to take Finnish basketball players seriously, Lauri Markkanen is legit. But we also haven't lost back-to-backs since Novembet, and it's not happening again tonight.
7:00 tip, NBCSB/League Pass. Horford questionable per Jay King, owing to the B2B with tomorrow night's game in Indy. Win.
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