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Kobe's Lakers Return to NBA Finals
San Antonio fought the LA and the LA won. The Lakers are headed back to the NBA Finals for their first appearance since 2004. On Thursday night, Kobe put in 39 points to help lead the squad to the p...
More Instant Replay in NBA?
On Wednesday the NBA told the world: "yes our referees messed up, a foul should have been called". This was in reference to Brent Barry's potential game-winning shot against the Lakers a few nights a...
Lakers Have Spurs on the Ropes
The Lakers are now in cruise control with the defending champion San Antonio Spurs. Los Angeles kept the Spurs from making the comeback Tuesday night to take a 3-1 series lead. With another win, Kob...
Lakers Have Spurs Down
Friday night's Lakers-Spurs game was a blowout, no doubt about it. Even with Tony Parker's NBA Wife, Eva Longoria-Parker cheering her team on, the Spurs couldn't make the type of heroic comeback the ...
Large Lakers Comeback Beats Spurs
The Spurs had made plans to leave town early and catch a flight to LA Monday night, however their plane had been delayed for hours. The plane situation didn't seem to hurt them as they were walloping...
Spurs Advance Past Hornets 91-82
In the words of former Houston Rockets coach Rudy Tomjanovich, you can never "underestimate the heart of a champion". Perhaps many people did just that, self included, as the Hornets were blowing San...
Spurs Hurt the Hornets
The Spurs not only hurt New Orleans with a 19 point win Thursday night, but also hurt their All-star forward, David West. West left the game after taking a hit in the back by Robert Horry. Apparentl...
Hornets Buzzing & Pistons Move Forward!
On Tuesday night the New Orleans Hornets gained payback as they beat the Spurs soundly, 101-79. New Orleans buzzed out after halftime with the Spurs leading, and Chris Paul took over the game. Paul ...
Jazz & Spurs Even the Score
On Sunday the two Western Conference playoff series resumed with both of the home teams tying things up. It was almost a bit of a mirror of Saturday's East games, with the first game a close affair, ...
What's Up with King James?
Lebron has started off in a serious slump during the Celtics-Cavs series. While he continues to do more than just score for his team, his heroic scoring performances have been sorely missed. You'd h...
Pistons & Hornets Up 2-0
Deja vu yet again on Monday night as the Pistons defeated the Magic to take a 2-0 lead, and the Hornets are now up with an impressive 2-0 lead on the defending champion San Antonio Spurs.The Pistons-M...
NBA Playoffs Ring of Fire
The Hornets with a hot Round 2 performanceTwo of the Round 2 series got started with the Orlando Magic traveling to Detroit to take on the Pistons, and the Hornets and Spurs facing off. These games f...
Dennis Rodman Jailed!
The original "bad boy" himself, former Piston, Spur and Bull Dennis Rodman can't keep himself out of trouble. The rebounding champ and former All-Star Rodman was arrested this past Wednesday night f...
Goodbye Suns & Mavs!
Two teams that had been considered amongst the Western Conference elite were dismissed from the NBA Playoffs on Tuesday night. Dallas was booted from the postseason in the 1st round for the second co...
Don't Call it a Comeback...
The Phoenix Suns had a "must win" game on Sunday. Not so much to keep their playoff hopes alive (many feel the Suns are done), but more to keep their reputation in tact. At the start of the season, ...
NBA Playoff Blowouts Mystery
One might expect the Eastern conference to be a lot less competitive, but the Western Conference has been very enigmatic as the first round of these playoffs have gone on. Only 2 close games, with a ...
Manu Ginobili is 2007-08 NBA 6th Man
Congratulations go out to the San Antonio Spurs, Manu Ginobili. According to NBA.com, the valuable reserve has won this year's Sixth Man of the Year Award.From NBA.com:As part of its support of the S...
2008 NBA Playoffs Day 1
The 2008 NBA Playoffs have started off at a furious pace. On Saturday the playoff gates opened with a classic Western Conference game going into double overtime. It was the rematch of the Spurs vs. ...
Consider the Celtics Champs Yet?
By now unless you're a resident of Boston or a diehard Celtics fan, you just might be sick of hearing about them. However, the Boston Celtics have had two very impressive milestones this season which...
Celtic Green = Luck O' the Irish
Call it the luck o' the Irish. The Boston Celtics (decked out in special St Patty's Day green jerseys) survived a huge test on St. Patrick's day/night as they overcame the champion San Antonio Spurs ...
The West is Making Moves
Not Jerry West, but the Western Conference. It's just becoming painfully apparent that the Western teams of the NBA want to improve and want to win. It seems as if the Eastern teams with the excepti...
Is the Wild Wild West on Repeat?
Phoenix was off to a hot start with its run and gun up-tempo offensive powers. But is this anything new? The Spurs are a top team out West. So are the Mavs. History seems to be repeating itself ov...
NBA Standings Analysis 11.11.07
Checking out the NBA standings even though it's still early, there's some surprises. The division leaders as of today are Boston, Detroit and Orlando. Nobody is too surprised by the Celtics red-hot...
NBA Season Begins...
Last night the NBA season opened with just 3 games on the schedule. Here's a quick look and some thoughts. Jazz defeated the Warriors 117 to 96 Carlos Boozer scored 32 pts along with 15 boards. I ...