Boston Celtics
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Irresponsible fans are out of control
It’s time for Commissioner David Stern to give NBA fans a good spanking, followed by a grounding of epic proportions. At last check, two of the ten starters in the NBA All-Star game in February will have combined to play 23 games this season, with their combined ’09-’10 scoring averages totaling fewer than twenty points per game. Sixers [...]
