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The San Antonio Spurs haven’t had much to complain about during their first-round series against the Los Angeles Lakers. The Spurs are leading 3-0, and the vaunted “Big Three” of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, and Manu Ginobili are looking healthy after another season in which they each battled minor injuries Friday night, as the Spurs [...]
Steve Nash has had a rough first season with the Los Angeles Lakers. The two-time NBA MVP has missed 32 games due to various injuries throughout the year and at 39 years old his body may simply be breaking down. But Nash insists he’s not even close to considering retirement.
There were five or six Western Conference teams fighting for several playoff spots in what turned out to be a rather exciting finish to the NBA’s regular season on Wednesday evening.
The big news Wednesday night was that the Los Angeles Lakers earned the No. 7 seed in the Western Conference playoffs with a 99-95 overtime win against the Houston Rockets. But a story that largely went under the radar was that Lakers center Dwight Howard became the youngest player in NBA history to notch 9,000 [...]
In a shocking move, the Lakers have landed Phoenix PG Steve Nash in a trade. The Suns will get the Lakers’ 2013 and 2015 first-round draft picks and their 2014 and 2015 second-round selections. The Lakers also paid the Suns $3 million to facilitate the trade.
The 2012 NBA Playoffs have been a blast to watch, but these last couple of months have not been just another post season; they’ve been something much more special than that.
I have heard talk lately debating Tim Duncan or Kobe Bryant as the best player of their generation. I have been pleasantly surprised to hear some analysts say Duncan, to which I agree.
I give two thumbs up to the pasty gentleman in this video, “Kobye” I guess he’d like to be called, for reworking the Gotye song into a clever postmortem on the recently completed season for Kobe Bryant and the Lakers.
Metta World Peace said the Lakers were the better team in their matchup against the Thunder but just underachieved. “We had them beat. Stunned. So stunned. It’s stunning,” he said. When exactly did you have them beat Ron Ron?
I can’t believe that I have been dragged into this again…but after Jerod’s scathing post this morning, I thought it would be prudent to discuss Kobe and MJ one more time.
The next time anyone tries to argue that Kobe Bryant is in the same class as Michael Jordan, ask them this: would MJ have ever been clowned publicly by…Brian Cardinal? I think not.
Over the last 13 NBA seasons, there have been only three teams from the Western Conference to play for an NBA championship. The Oklahoma City Thunder may get the chance to eliminate each of these three powerhouses in their 2012 playoff run towards the NBA Finals.
Many were calling into question whether or not the young Thunder team would be affected by their long layoff, but a 119-90 win over the Lakers proved that they were only helped by the time off.
The Lakers held off the Clippers to win the Pacific Division to secure the third seed in the West. They must now focus their attention to Denver, who are looking to avoid another first round exit in the playoffs in the post-Carmelo era.
Ron Artest is a thug. Plain and simple. And David Stern should suspend him into the playoffs for the vicious elbow he threw at James Harden last night.
