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  The 2009 NBA draft. Stephen Curry, Blake Griffin, Tyreke Evans, James Harden, Brandon Jennings and Jrue Holiday. Sounds pretty good right? We didn’t think about it at the time, but this draft was considered weak at the time. Turns out it was one of the strongest we’ve seen in a while. The 2010 draft, loaded with John Wall, Evan Turner, Greg Monroe and DeMarcus Cousins, seemed to be strong as well. With just three days left before the NBA draft, the 2011 class is being picked apart, and from the looks of it, this is supposed to be one [...]

Where do I begin? How do you say thank you, to average work? If this was a gift, it was the 75 dollar sweater that you only wear once? Yesterday, it was announced that Donnie Walsh will not return to the Knicks GM position for the 2011-2012 season. I don’t know how to feel about it, mainly because we had one winning season in three seasons. Coming in 2008, Walsh and D’Antoni were seen as saviors, but that’s hardly the case at all. In fact, you can argue they hurt the franchise more then helped the franchise. Am I crazy? [...]

Nobody was surprised when Pat Riley was named a co-recipient of the 2011 Executive of the Year Award. You could make the case that Riley signed the top three names on any GM’s list of the top-10 available free agents. You could also make the case that Riley signed two more names off the top-20 list when he snagged Mike Miller and Udonis Haslem. The real reason that Riley was able to sign more than two guys off that list was because of a trade he’d made back in February of 2009. You’d have to go even further back to [...]

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that the Los Angeles Lakers and owner Jerry Buss plan on retiring Shaq’s No. 34. That’s because even when the relationship between Shaq and the Lakers was at it’s most contentious, the Lakers still took the high road. Every time Shaq blasted the organization or went out of his way to diss the franchise by either declaring every one of his post-Lakers coaches or teammates as “the best he’s ever played for or with” the Lakers as an organization never took the bait. When Lamar Odom arrived in Los Angeles as part [...]

  Could you believe that the NBA Finals start Tuesday? Me niether, but the Dallas Mavericks and Miami Heat made it. It’s quite interesting to see how both teams made it. Miami swamped through the East with strong series against Philadelphia, Boston, and then Chicago. Dallas, the team alot of people expected to lose in round one, defeated Portland, then swept the Lakers in a shocking series. After LA, Dallas took down a young Oklahoma City squad. I have a couple questions here: – Can Miami stop the Kidd/Chandler combo? For one, Jason Kidd had a little bit of a [...]

In a pefect world?  We could just add another set of NBA teams and life would be good. Rumors, hatred, feelings, emotions, revelations. That’s what alot of fans had when Oklahoma City and Memphis played a game 7. The fans? Vancouver and Seattle. Both cities lost their team to Memphis and Oklahoma City, and many couldn’t help but feel some level of pain, or even remorse for not supporting those cities. For Vancouver, it was almost a failure from the start. From the Bryant Reeves pick, to the Steve Francis’ draft look, to the terrible trades and picks that followed, [...]

With the NFL player assiociation essentally “losing” in court, the NBA decided it was the best time to throw out a revised deal for the players assiociation. Perfect timing. What was included in this new deal? A 45 million dollar cap AND non-guarenteed contracts. Let me be the first to predict that deal will be declined. Anywho, this got me wondering, what do I want to see changed in the NBA? What are some of the things I want the NBA to do? So, I sat and picked the best 4 ideas of mine that the NBA should consider. Here [...]

Dallas, Oklahoma City, Miami and Chicago all have some business to attend to, but this past Tuesday, the NBA held it’s annual draft lottery. This year, the draft is consider to be on the weakest draft since the 2006 draft, which had 5 good players in the first round. While I think this draft is deep in terms of role players, the potential superstars don’t stand out. The only two players who impress are Duke’s Kyrie Irving and Arizona’s Derrick Williams. Irving in his 13 games, seemed to impressed drawing comparisons to Chris Paul. Williams led a average Arizona team [...]

Chicago vs Miami, South Beach vs The Windy City, the team we were all designed to hate vs the team with the kid were all supposed to love. The best player in the NBA vs the 2011 MVP. That alone should get you in your seat to watch potentially 7 great games between two teams fighting for a spot in the NBA finals. If not, let me assist you. Allow me to extend you this olive branch of hyperbole: If you thought any series before this one meant anything:  You got it all wrong. Take away your thought of Celtics/Pistons [...]

  If you’re a Lakers hater, then you’ve earned the right to laugh all you want at the demise of this year’s edition of the Los Angeles Lakers. If you’re a Lakers fan, take a deep breath. Next, watch a few of these remaining playoff games and forget about the Lakers for a couple weeks. Before you start messing around with trade machines and looking up player contracts, let the loss marinate a little bit before you start playing pocket GM. That’s because there are a number of reasons as to why nobody should be surprised that the Lakers were [...]