Chad Ford

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Chad Ford covers the NBA and NBA Draft for ESPN Insider. He is also a frequent contributor to ESPN the Magazine and makes weekly appearances on ESPN Radio and ESPNEWS.

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The Book of Basketball

Bill Simmons, Special to ESPN.com

In an excerpt from "The Book of Basketball," Bill explains how the ABA-NBA merger set off a crazy storm of events.

Story | Conversation | October 21, 2009

Greg Oden: No. 1 with a bullet

I'll remember Monday night's Florida-OSU game for five reasons: Florida cementing its status as one of the best non-UCLA college teams of the modern e...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 03, 2007

One shining weekend ahead

...Bucks for the rest of the season. But it's not. Talkin' hoops with Bill and Chad Ford Bill Simmons joins NBA Insider Chad Ford and shares his thoughts on the Final Four, Celtics...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 30, 2007

Down with the O.J. Mayo Era

If you missed the McDonald's All-American Game Wednesday night, you missed an appalling 4-for-17 performance by O.J. Mayo, who has a legitimate chance...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 29, 2007

A fan's notes: Gus, Kevin, more

The Gus Johnson Question has turned into one of the defining sports questions in life. Where you stand says more about you than you'd think, just like...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 20, 2007

Please rescue the Horns

...And every Olympic team needs a glue guy. So I'm making room for him. 2. Chad Ford's latest Top 100 draft list has Green ranked 14th behind four other small forwards or...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 12, 2007

Hooked on hoops

...be forced to shift from color to black-and-white just to complete the effect.) • Chad Ford made a salient point in his latest blog: The Oden-Durant debate has reached the point...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 06, 2007

Weekend wrap show

Ten lingering thoughts from the weekend in college hoops: 1. The Kevin Durant Era has reached the point where I watch every Texas game with my TV roo...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 05, 2007

Vegas follow up

I hate writing a rebuttal to another writer's column. I hate it. These days on the Internet, people spend far too much time writing about other writer...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 01, 2007

Welcome to the Basketball Blog

During Wednesday night's Duke-Carolina game, Dickie V called this year's freshman class "the best freshman class since I've ever been on television." ...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 08, 2007

MC: More brackets

Clarification from yesterday's Cowbell: Some of you noticed that the Sports Gal picked UCLA over Memphis in the regional finals, followed by Memphis w...

Blog Entry | Conversation | March 15, 2006

A 'Band-Aid' for the NBA offseason

Bill Simmons, Page 2

Bill Simmons recaps the NBA offseason so far, using quotes from his favorite movie of the decade, "Almost Famous."

Story | July 26, 2009

For Clippers, lottery rarely a reward

David Schoenfield, Page 2

No team has had as many lottery picks as the Clippers. And no team has blown as many lottery picks. The sad, sordid tales.

Story | Conversation | June 23, 2009

Gladwell-Simmons II: Part 3

Bill Simmons, Page 2

In Part 3, The Sports Guy and best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell discuss how to fix the NBA and what the ceiling for LeBron James might be.

Story | May 13, 2009

The wait is over! The mailbag comes through

Bill Simmons, Page 2

Bill Simmons ends his long mailbag drought with a mammoth batch of reader submissions, including the definitive word on the De Niro-Pacino debate.

Story | March 05, 2009