Where Are They Now, 2010; Part 50

April 13th, 2010

– Cherokee Parks

It was six years and five months ago that Cherokee Parks was last on the roster of a professional basketball team. The Warriors waived him in December 2003, and yet Parks, aged only 31, never played again. He now owns a music club in his hometown of Huntingdon Beach called “The Brigg.”

Unbelievably, the NBA’s Cherokee Parks is not the only man in the world with that name.

– Marlon Parmer

Since 2005, Marlon Parmer …

Let Me Drago Pasalic You Up And Down

February 4th, 2009

In keeping with my new policy of talking about every game that I watch that isn’t an NBA game, here’s what I observed from last night’s EuroCup game between Iurbentia Bilbao and the home Lithuanian team with a Yorkshire inflection, Lietuvos Rytas. Go.

– Bilbao’s line-up features only three Spanish nationals; point guard Javier Salgado, backup guard Paco Vazquez, and a really slow inside player with a massive head and greasy mullet called Salvador Guardia. The rest …