Basketball

NBA 1st Round Playoffs 2023

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  The NBA 1st Round Playoffs 2023 has been a fantastic journey so far. Look at the Miami Heat who was in 7th place prior to the play-in round. These guys loose to the Atlanta Hawks, but then obtain the 8th seed in beating the Chicago Bulls.  They smack the Milwaukee Bucks around in game 1 and then go on to win the series in 5 games. Now as you know the Bucks were the number 1 seed in the playoffs. Miami had experienced its woes during the season with poor 3-point shooting, and injuries. …READ MORE

Kevin Durant’s Dilemma

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 Kevin Durant’s dilemma, Kyrie Irving, Ben Simmons seems like a possibility that you should pursue. The Harden-Simmons trade, gave some hope to the Nets of having a super team early this year in February. Simmons just has to get his head on straight, Kyrie, needs to make some soul searching to get his head into the games all 82 of them. Durant has to feel confident that both these guys are committed to winning.   As it stands, Kevin wants out, the Nets are looking ship out Kyrie, and Ben Simmons; who knows! This state …READ MORE

2022 NBA Free Agency and Movement-

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2022 NBA Free Agency has taken on a strange twist; as we see Kyrie Irving opt in to his contract with the Nets and then later we see Kevin Durant wanted to be traded afterwards. Could you blame him?  Remember a few years back when this was brewing with both Irving and Durant wanting to play together. This was thought to be a beatable combination. Let’s see; Durant had that injury, and Kyrie pretty much had to carry the team in the 2019-2020 season. Kevin comes back late in the 2020-2021 season and plays 35 …READ MORE

Basketball Greats and Arguments

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Basketball Greats, are often talked about in the current era, and in the past. Often we wonder how would a Steph Curry type would had faired in the 80’s or a Michael Jordan in this era. You hear the arguments time and time again, about who is the best in a era. Let’s face it, it is intriguing to compare players out of era’s and who are the top ten best players in Basketball history. Basketball greats in the 60’s were just about all of the Celtics, and could you argue this; they were the …READ MORE

Sixers and Ben Simmons-A marriage gone bad

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    Sixers and Ben Simmons-A marriage gone bad   Sixers and Ben Simmons-A marriage gone bad didn’t even think that this would be a issue back in 2016.  This kid is going to be a great asset to the Sixers. Especially as the Sixers were just coming off the, “burn it down and build it back up ERA”, also known as, “trust the process”. I seen this guy do some amazing things in a course of a game. The season that really took rise to bringing the Sixers in the forefront of the Eastern …READ MORE

NBA Conference Finals-2021 East and West

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NBA Conference Finals-2021 Consider the fact that that last year there was no basketball at this time during the pandemic, as the league was putting together plans to jumpstart the season again. Last year it was somewhat a troubling year for everyone. The NBA survived and closed the season out with the Lakers winning it all. Miami damn neared pulled it off, but they did not have enough firepower to take if from the Lebron led Lakers. Check out Amazon stuff! Several months go by and the season starts in December; around the Christmas holidays.  During the …READ MORE

NBA Playoffs-2021-Not in the bubble

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  The NBA Playoffs-2021 has started and yes; we are a long way from that dreadful March in 2020, where Rudy Gobert touched everything he could during the interview, when Covid was starting to spread. Yes, he thought it was funny, and he did apologize. Since then we have lost close to 600,000 souls to this pandemic, and maybe more. The vaccinations are going out and they have seemed to give sports a new life, as watching the games over the weekend; we saw Madison Square Garden in New York with plenty of folks in …READ MORE

NBA Play-In New Innovation for the NBA

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NBA Play-In appears to be going well so far. The teams that were in 7th place in each division will be proceeding on to the playoffs. We still have the 8th place teams that need to be placed. Watching these games, we have seen at least 2 barn burner games so far. Those games were the Grizzlies, and the Spurs and the Lakers and the Warriors. Watching the action between teams during the last of the season, there were some great basketball games. The NBA Play-In may be the way to go. This format may …READ MORE

Lebron omitted from Dr. J’s List of All time great teams

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“He’s the guy who has led the charge in terms of super teams…”@JuliusErving doesn't have LeBron on his top-two All-Time NBA teams 👀 Check out Posted Up with @ChrisBHaynes ➡️ https://t.co/LIqxEaKxVO pic.twitter.com/IROWlOSYkT — Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) April 27, 2021   Lebron omitted from Dr. J’s List Lebron omitted from Dr. J’s List    Lebron was scratched from Dr. J’s list of all time great teams. I looked at the list and it pretty much was individuals that had played prior and during Julius Erving’s career. Pretty much no one during the turn of the century. …READ MORE

NBA Talented Young Guards- 2021-

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Some of the young talented guards in the NBA are just something else to watch! This Kid Luca Doncic is a phenomenal talent to watch! Dallas would probably be much better in the standings if they had had their big man Porzingis play more games. He has missed 18 games this season. Mr. Luca does keep a crowd ready and willing to watch. His knowledge of the game from his young European roots just amazes the league. Keep a watch on this kid, because if he ever gets a great line up behind him, he …READ MORE