Two teams are surging through their conferences, and they have also surged to the top of my NBA Power Rankings, as the West is tight, and the East is pathetic.
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The NBA is in the final stages of warming up for the proving ground stages of the season. Some teams are out to prove they are for real, while other upstarts will fade back into mediocrity.
With a week of road trips, the West certainly solidified itself as the better conference, thrashing Eastern teams wherever the games were played.
Several upstart teams have taken nosedives while the West has several teams in for showdowns to determine the cream of the crop.
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NBA Power Rankings for November 6th
Just one week into the season, the NBA is full of surprises both good and bad. Some teams are making their run at glory, while there are playoff teams from last season searching for a win.
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Breaking Down The NBA
by Trevor Freeman
For most people, October 31st was Halloween. A day that is dedicated to hooking up with women dressed like slutty nurses and egging unsuspecting houses. For me……and you can tell I’m pushing closer to 30, Halloween was on a Tuesday and that meant I had work the next day. However this year for the first time, October 31st also meant the tip-off of the NBA season. It meant Miami was getting their rings and Adam Morrison was one day closer to proving to Chad Ford that he is superior as a basketball player to Andrea Bargnani. It meant that no longer would the big NBA stories revolve around Sebastian Telfair’s boys possibly shooting Fabolous and it would instead revolve around the actual game of hoop. With all that mind, I figured it was time for me to throw my NBA rankings together.
We will begin our countdown in a locale that is used to watching losing professional basketball. Sadly this locale also doubles as home and this team is………gulp…….the team I was born into rooting for (shaking my head as I am writing this).
By David J. Cohen
Coming into the NBA season several teams have received a lot of publicity. Out west the Suns are everyone’s favorites if F Amare Stoudemire is healthy. The Spurs and Mavericks are the other top contenders out west. And the biggest surprise last year, the Los Angeles Clippers, return stronger and with more experience.
In the Eastern Conference analysts and commentators would make you believe only two teams exist. The Miami Heat will try to defend the title with an aging core mixed with the possible arrival of several young players. The Chicago Bulls add C Ben Wallace to the best defense in the league and hope it is enough to win a championship. Everyone else in the east is pretty much invisible. However, like the Clippers last season, there is a team ready to make a huge step forward on their road to a possible title in the future. It started after the all-star break last year and will continue this year. It’s the NBA’s biggest sleeper team: The Orlando Magic.
The NBA starts up tonight with two good matchups — Chicago at Miami and Phoenix at LA Lakers. But before we the season tips off, let’s take a look at how each team stacks up. This year, Zach Crizer will be doing the weekly NBA Power Rankings. Check out the rankings below and leave your feedback in the comments.
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Another NBA Season is Upon Us
Last season there were the usual suspects for the crown of NBA Champion — the Spurs, Mavs, Pistons, and Suns… but one man (and an officiating crew) took the trophy to South Beach. The “New Breed” of NBA talent is and may have already taken over the league. D-Wade, LeBron, Melo, Chris Bosh, and Dwight Howard are going to get some of that superstar attention, and it’s well deserved. Those guys are the real deal. Some mainstays, like Kobe, AI, K-G, and Paul Pierce are going to whittle away on sub-par teams. Meanwhile the Spurs and Mavs will plug away victory after victory, and the Suns will…run.
The Champion comes from the East, but the competition is in the West. I get the inkling that 7 of the top 10 teams in the league are west of the Mississippi. I don’t have many big predictions, or bold statements to make, because I think they are all futile given no one has played a game yet. For all I know, the two teams I like to play in June could be in the lottery, that is how fragile some teams’ hopes are. This is just an average man’s take on what might happen in the 06-07 NBA season. Good luck fellas.
By C. Eric Lincoln
My first impression of Red Auerbach will be my lasting impression of Red Auerbach. Red Auerbach was a New York guy who grew up on tough New York streets, a guy who might well have been a character created by Damon Runyon. Red would have been a Runyon race track guy with a racing form rolled up in his pocket and a dead cigar in hand, always looking for angles — always looking for a winning edge. And for the better part of his 89 years Red Auerbach always found a winning edge.