With Kobe’s season ending injury putting a major pain in the Lakers quest for getting into the playoffs, it is now up to Dwight Howard to put the team on his shoulders and lead the way.
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In what has turned out to be a loss season in the City of Brotherly love, Doug Collins has decided not to return to the Philadelphia 76ers as their head coach.
With the franchise in decline after the Andrew Bynum trade was a massive flop, Collins decided he wanted no part of what could be a long rebuilding effort.
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Right now, the Los Angeles Lakers are in the unusual position of not only being the second team in LA but in ninth place in the Western Conference, a half game behind the Utah Jazz.
The Jazz seem to have stepped their game which means the Lakers are in big trouble. The Jazz have 7 games left, the Lakers 8 which gives them a one game advantage but it also means they have no margin for error.
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One team is 17-24 and sinking quicker than the Titanic, the other is thriving and owns the second best record in the league, a half game behind the Oklahoma City Thunder at 32-10. Both teams play in the Los Angeles in the same building (The Staples center) so if I were to tell you that the Lakers are 17-24 and the Clippers aer 32-10 would you believe it? Of course not.
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With the NBA season only a week away from tipping off, let’s look at the teams that I picked to make the playoffs from each conference in my NBA season preview (found here) and make some preseason playoff predictions:
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With training camps opening and the preseason right around the corner, it’s almost NBA season once again. Time for my top 8 teams in each conference:
Eastern Conference
1) Miami: The defending NBA champs hardly need an introduction. LeBron James is back fresh off of a gold medal winning summer for Team USA and Dwayne Wade as well as Chris Bosh are getting healthy for the start of the season. Continue reading
It’s FINALLY almost here. Super Bowl XLVI. Pats vs Giants. Brady vs Eli. Hey, did you guys know this is a rematch of a Super Bowl from a few years ago? Don’t answer that. Hype? You betcha. Sure, I’m an NBA guy; but there was no way the resident douchebag, Masshole, Boston fan at 85percentsports wasn’t going to comment on this game in some manner. Duh.
As Mike W broke down this morning, there are legacies on the line Sunday. Continue reading
Shaking my head.
I love Kevin Garnett. I loved him as a player before he was traded to the Celtics. I respected him as a man crying because of his loyalty to a losing franchise. I’ve always respected the passion and the intensity that make him the player that he is. But when is it enough? When does the passion and intensity become more of a burden than an advantage? Maybe I’m wearing green goggles and I just don’t realize that we’ve already passed that point with Garnett. Continue reading
A week after NBA Commissioner David Stern killed a deal that would send Chris Paul to the Lakers, the Hornets have worked out a deal to send the disgruntled star to the LA Clippers. The Clippers will send guard Eric Gordon, forward Al-Farouq Aminu, center Chris Kaman and a first-round draft choice to the Hornets; the Clippers may be receiving 2 second round draft picks in 2015.
The deal is still pending the approval of the commissioner, as the Hornets are owned by the NBA.
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This is bad. Very bad. Let’s sit back and think about what just happened last night for a few minutes logically. The National Basketball Association officially ratified a new collective bargaining agreement between the league owners and players. Then, three teams in the National Basketball Association agreed to a trade. Hours later, that trade was vetoed by the league’s dictator, David Stern. Continue reading