NBA Basketball
The guy who needs this NBA ring most
This is shaping up to be another great NBA Finals, and I don’t think I can honestly say who will win. But I know who needs to win more than anyone else. Kobe. Think about it: Bryant’s Lakers are the favorite and have home court advantage. Thus the pressure is on the Lakers to win [...]
Artest passes another test
Consider for a moment what was at stake as Ron Artest charged through the lane with less than two seconds to go Thursday night. Here was a guy who has been much maligned throughout his career. He’s a head case. He’s got a temper. His teams don’t win. He beat up a fan in the [...]
Officials bite back
In the hullabaloo of praising individual athletes, sometimes we forget about the other individuals on the field of play: the officials. Despite them trying to remain nameless, unbiased and draw as little attention to themselves as possible, we forget that they too are people. It’s possible for them to be subjective, make mistakes and show [...]
Boston cream rising
Whether it’s food, physics or sports, the cream always rises to the top. And in the area of sports, the NBA’s Eastern Conference No. 4 seeded Boston Celtics are that cream that is making its way to the surface. In the first round of the playoffs, the Celts dismantled the Miami Heat in five games. [...]
Is LeBron the new Stifler?
From the “You-Couldn’t-Make-This-Stuff-Up-If-You-Tried” file, try to digest this nugget: According to sports blogger Terez Owens, Cleveland Cavaliers guard Delonte West is doing the nasty with Gloria James, the mother of his teammate and NBA MVP LeBron James. I feel like I should stop writing after that sentence because there’s nothing else I can state that will [...]
Pesky ping pong balls
What a kick to the gut. When the New Jersey Nets came up short in winning the NBA Draft Lottery Tuesday night, they may have lost out on much more than Kentucky point guard John Wall, whom many analysts think will be the number one overall pick of the draft. The Nets may have also [...]
The games off the field
Only 409 more days. That’s right–in fewer than 59 weeks, the 2010 NBA free agency period opens. And it will open sans LeBron James. No Dwyane Wade, either. Chris Bosh will be inked to a team already. Not even Joe Johnson will be available. All of those guys get their big deals this summer. But I [...]
Disgusted with myself
The weekend of Feb. 12-14 marked an important one for the sports world. You had the opening ceremonies for the Winter Olympics on Friday, followed by skiing, ski jumping and speed skating headlining the rest of the weekend. The “Super Bowl” of auto racing, the Daytona 500, took place on Sunday and Danica Patrick also [...]
A marked improvement
The NBA’s 19-year-old age requirement has been a sore subject for many basketball fans since its inception four years ago. NBA fans don’t like it because it deprives them of talented players for a year. College fans don’t like it because it deprives them of talented players for three more years. I have to tell [...]
2010 NBA All-Troublemaker Team
Since we are coming up fast on the NBA All-Star game, we are celebrating everything the best of the best athletes of this league have to offer. After all, the league will live and die but its superstars. So since everyone else is recognizing the good, all me to accentuate the bad: My All-Troublemaker Team: Starters: Point [...]
