
He needs to be allowed to do that, because there’s no reason for the Rockets to re-sign the often unhappy big man and destroy their salary cap in the process.
TEXAS RIPIT FREE
He will certainly opt out and test free agency as he looks for one more big contract that will hang like an albatross on the neck of a team like the Nets or the Knicks well into the 2020s. Howard is owed more than $23 million in 2016-17, a year in which he has a player option. In the words of the great Scot Edwyn Collins, singing on the title track to Orange Juice’s 1982 album Rip It Up: “Rip it up and start again/And I hope to God you’re not as dumb as you make out.” Without sounding morose-what’s the point of it all? Why try to be the eighth- or fourth-best team in the conference? What the Rockets need is a complete rebuild, and the only way to effectively do that is to start from scratch. If Houston can overtake Utah this last week of the season-hooray!-they’ll win the opportunity to get swept by Golden State in the first round.

This brings me to the Rockets, who, at 39-41 are on the outside looking in on the Western Conference Finals. That’s great for fans in the Bay Area, San Antonio, and Cleveland, but for NBA fans everywhere else, it’s been a slow slog to the middle since Christmas.
TEXAS RIPIT SERIES
With apologies to the Toronto Raptors and Portland Trail Blazers, we are going to see an NBA Finals series this year featuring either the Warriors or the Spurs against, likely, the Cavaliers. The NBA playoff, set to begin on April 16, isn’t like the NFL or NHL: a wild card team can’t sneak in, get hot out of nowhere, and win it all.
TEXAS RIPIT PROFESSIONAL
Oh, boy, well, I'm afraid to ask.As far as the four major American professional sports go, the NBA is parity averse.
TEXAS RIPIT HOW TO
There's only one other acceptable theory about how to hit the ball. It's about gaining control of your life and.letting go at the same time. But the point is.every finishing position is unique. Well, some say it's the easiest way to play in the winds of west Texas.some say it's because I never finish anything in my life. Ohh, he's doing that Arnold Palmer thing.Īnd then the unfinished symphony of Roy McAvoy. The reverse C of the Golden Bear! The steel workers' power and brawn of Carl Sandburg's Arnold Palmer! Such a pure feeling is the well-struck golf shot. And now the weight begins shifting back to the left pulled by the powers inside the earth, it's alive, this swing! A living sculpture and down through contact, always down, striking the ball crisply, with character. Tempo is everything perfection unobtainable as the body coils down at the top of the swing. Lowly and slowly, the clubhead is led back, pulled into position not by the hands, but by the body, which turns away from the target, shifting weight to the right side without shifting balance. The hands unite to form a single unit by the simple overlap of the little finger. The critical opening phrase of this poem will always be the grip. "What Is The Golf Swing," by Roy McAvoy? Well, I tend to think of the golf swing as a poem. Roy: There's only one other acceptable theory about how to hit the ball. Roy: Well, some say it's the easiest way to play in the winds of west Texas.some say it's because I never finish anything in my life. Roy: Well, I have a short follow-through. Roy: And then the unfinished symphony of Roy McAvoy. Romeo: Ohh, he's doing that Arnold Palmer thing.

Roy: Lowly and slowly, the clubhead is led back, pulled into position not by the hands, but by the body, which turns away from the target, shifting weight to the right side without shifting balance. Roy: The critical opening phrase of this poem will always be the grip.

Romeo: Ooh, he's doing that poetry thing again. Roy: "What Is The Golf Swing," by Roy McAvoy? Well, I tend to think of the golf swing as a poem.
