Merry Christmas everybody! The first game was like a present you play with for 5 minutes to amuse you’re relatives. Now we get the real presents. LA. Cleveland. Kobe. LeBron.
Last year when the two faced off it became an instant classic. Kobe was the reigning MVP at the time, but now it’s LeBron. Who will take it this year? Only time will tell. One things for sure, this game will certainly have a huge barring on who wins come August. Read more…
It’s Christmas day and while most people are likely enjoying some Christmas cocktails and opening presents I’ve decided to spend this non-holiday (I’m Jewish) hunkered in front of the TV.
What to watch? Well, the NBA and NFL have delivered in the form of two marquee NBA matchups with the Celtics and Magic facing off in a Eastern Conference battle; along with the Cavs faces the Lakers or as I like to call it, the Lebrons facing the Kobes.
And to top it all off we get to watch the Titans and Chris Johnson face the Chargers and Phillip Rivers. Not a bad day of sports TV. Thanks Santa! Read more…
Rasheed Wallace is a Celtic, and with his signing the Celtics can be considered legitimate 2010 contenders.
After a few trades and signings several teams on both coasts got better.
Whether it was the Diesel heading to Cleveland, Vincanity taking a trip home or Artest going Hollywood there was plenty of high profile action going on in NBA land. Read more…
With the NBA Draft Thursday it’s time to breakdown how things could shake out, and there are plenty of scenarios to choose from.
But first and foremost, trade winds are in the air.
Locally, the Celtics have been rumored in dealings with a number of teams, reportedly offering the rival Detroit Pistons Rajon Rondo and Ray Allen for Richard Hamilton, Tayshaun Prince and Rodney Stuckey. On Tuesday a rumored Rondo and Brian Scalabrine to Memphis for Rudy Gay and Michael Conley trade was floating around as well. Read more…
What can be written that has not already been said?
Kobe got the monkey off his back, cementing his post-Shaq legacy as the No. 1 alpha dog of his generation. He did his work, and will likely be considered a top 10 All-Time NBA player because of it. Read more…
There are some things you don’t do in sports.
You don’t guarantee victories when you’re down 2-1 after Game 3. Mo Williams made that mistake and he’ll have to live with it for the rest of his career.
You don’t snub the apposing team after they send you packing for a long offseason. LeBron James did that after Game 6 and will be considered a sore loser—not for the rest of his career, but at least for now.
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Last night’s Raw broadcast went exactly as expected. Vince McMahon confronted an actor who played the part of Enos S. Kroenke, the owner of the Denver Nuggets, and the five-on-five Lakers-versus-Nuggets faces-versus-heels main event closed out the show but left much to be desired. Read more…
If you happened to hear Cleveland Cavaliers’ point guard Mo Williams speak to the media on Monday, you might have forgotten the Cavs were down 2-1 in the Eastern Conference Finals. Williams decided to not just guarantee a game, but the entire series.
“Guarantee we’re going to win the series? Yeah, yeah,” Williams said to reporters Monday. “We are down 2-1. But there is nobody on this team and definitely not myself that says we are not going to win this series. Yeah, it is going to be tough. We know that. We get this game tomorrow, go home, still got home-court advantage.”
Strong words for a man shooting a mere 32 percent from the arc in the series, but MVP LeBron James backed up his teammate.
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Kobe McMahon?
Here’s a news topic that will be familiar to both wrestling fans AND traditional sports fans. When the Houston Rockets failed to defeat the Los Angeles Lakers in the Conference Semifinals round of the 2009 NBA Playoffs, an interesting ‘match’ was booked in both the wrestling and basketball worlds. This match was not to take place in either the squared circle or a basketball court, but at press conferences.
The problem at hand was that the Lakers beating the Rockets meant the Denver Nuggets would NOT have home court advantage. This was a problem for World Wrestling Entertainment because they had first dibs on the arena for a live TV taping of Raw, and a contract to back it up, signed in August 2008. Had the Rockets won, this conflict would not have arisen, because game four of the next round of the playoffs would have taken place in Houston, not Denver. Read more…
Kobe Bryant has been called a lot of things in his 12 year pro career; from rapist, to The Black Mamba, to MVP, to The next MJ. Kobe’s life has been a remarkable story of a star who rose so quickly after winning three championships by the age of 23, and whose crash to earth was equally remarkable.
These story lines might be what you’d expect to see when Spike Lee rolls up a fat one, and tackles one of the biggest sports icons of our generation. But, sadly to say, Spike has lost his fastball.
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