This week’s champ comes to the Yellowknife Basketball Association having last played competitively in Whitehorse’s men’s league.

While the YKBA is full of whiners, fights – of the fist variety – are said to occur regularly on the Whitehorse courts. The committee asks anyone thinking about jumping ship to the warmer climes and beautiful scenery of Yukon’s barely-above-sixty capital to keep this bit of info in mind.

Now onto this week’s words: Last week the big man -- who has shown a nice touch around the basket and rebounds with abandon while somehow managing to keep his mouth shut no matter how terrible his teammates’ shot selection – potted a solid 22 against the Juniors. He then followed that performance up by dropping 20 big ones in a loss to the Claw.

These performances prompted at least one TRASHTalk post touting Sorochan as the best big man in the league. After some discussion the board decided on awarding, at the very least, most improved player honours.

The committee is not here to decide titles such as best big man, but let’s just say any talk of handing the man the most-improved player plaque is definitely misguided.

This guy’s had a solid game from Day One, but hasn’t been getting the ball enough. Though if last week is any indication, it looks like feeding the post is the Ringers’ new favourite play; and for good reason.