Author: leftcoast

Who want’s to get swept?

If you’re not an NBA fan in the cities of Dallas, Detroit, San Antonio, Phoenix, and Miami you may not have gotten a lot out of my last article. You see…that article was written to let you all know who is going to win the NBA championship this year. It is going to be one of those five teams. So I gave my opinion on who had the chance to get by Detroit and San Antonio, but I realized something today…that making the playoffs would be just as exciting for cities like Chicago, Boston, Golden State, Minnesota, Utah, Houston, Sacramento, and Milwaukee as one of the top five teams actually winning it all. Most teams have got 25 runs to go, and this is the time of the season where you can actually calculate the “magic number” for some teams to wrap up playoff spots. It is also the time of the year where you can write teams off (sorry Charlotte, Atlanta, New York, Toronto, Orlando, Seattle, and Portland) and wish them good luck in the lottery. At this point in time in the NBA season there is a legit cutoff point between teams that are still in it, and teams that are not. That point is 5 games. If there are more than 5 games between you and the final playoff spot in the conference, start thinking spoiler

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Detroit- San Antonio- who else…?

Post author By leftcoast
Post date February 27, 2006
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With 25 games or so left in this NBA season the playoff picture is still a little bit distorted. There are some teams who could collapse (Cleveland in particular) and miss the playoffs, and there is still some hope for teams like Houston and New York…okay that was low, sorry Knicks fans. However, things we all know are that San Antonio and Detroit are most likely going to get back to the Finals. The last two NBA champions mirror each other so much and play the game so well respectively, that it would take a disastrous injury or death to keep them from their collision course. (Let’s hope neither of them happens) If you are like me though it is sometimes nice to see somebody else get a chance to lift the Larry O’Brien trophy. The only thing is…are there really some teams in the league that stand a legitimate chance of dethroning Detroit or San Antonio?

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the Black Mamba

The biggest story in the NBA this season has been Kobe Bryant’s 81 points against the Toronto Raptors on January 22nd. He was 28 of 46 from the field (7-13 from 3) and hit 18 of 20 attempts at the line. It is by far the greatest display of offense in the history of the league…not done by a guy named Wilt Chamberlain. Michael only got to 69, Kobe got to 81. He played 42 minutes that night and ended up with 6 rebounds and 2 assists. Quite frankly, I’m surprised he had two assists. All of this coming a month after he torched the Dallas Mavericks for 62 on December 20th. By the way, he did that in only 32 minutes. The man is a scoring machine and is by far the best one on one offensive player in the NBA. To coin the phrase, “You can’t stop him; you just have to hope to contain him.”

General Sports

NBA Second Half

So this is the time of the year that I reflect on what has been in the first half of the NBA season. Like most sports enthusiasts I would say that the NBA is working out just like most everyone thought. Detroit and San Antonio look like they are up for Round Two in the Finals, Kobe takes an ungodly amount of shots a game, and Isaiah Thomas is the worst GM ever. But there are some things happening in the league that intrigue me. Take for instance the Phoenix Suns. They don’t have one of the five best players in the league (Amare) and they have only 2/5 of the starting lineup they had last year and they still lead the Pacific and are a two seed in the West. LeBron James is a man-child, but we all knew that. However, it actually looks like the Cavs are not going to have a melt down and we get to see the King do his thing in the playoffs.

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"I’m too hood for that"

So I woke up this morning, and the first thing I did, just like every other weekday, is turn on SportsCenter. Whose face do I see?…Ron-Ron’s. It was “Sunday Conversation” time, by far some of the best sports interviews on television. Artest answered questions on what he felt like during the months he was supposed to be traded, and how the Maloofs made him feel in his debut in Sacramento, etc. But an even better question came up about Ron Artest’s image. He replied that he really didn’t care about changing his image. To quote him, “I don’t want to do no Coca-Cola commercial.”

He was doing so good, it really seemed like he moved on from what happened in Detroit and that this Ron Artest was just going to play basketball, and try to stay off the radar. My favorite comment of the interview was that he was “too hood for that” when he was explaining why he wouldn’t clean up his act. That got me to thinking what is the big deal with street cred in the NBA?