Here is another edition of the NBA Power Rankings. The Eastern conference is proving that
it is the NBA’s equivalent of the NFL’s NFC. Maybe even worse. Enjoy.
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Here is this week’s Power Rankings. Hey Sixer Fans, appreciate the feedback.
I showed you guys some love this week. Note, the Power Rankings are completed before Tuesday’s games.
Sorry for the long wait since the last Post-Up Play, but I’ve been extremely busy as of late. It sure is a long journey to make it off this couch.
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A Conditioned Response
Although the Celtics’ short-term ambitions include winning the Atlantic Division, every realistic fan realizes that this is only because of the low quality of the other teams in the division. Fact is, the Celtics are rebuilding and don’t expect to compete for a title for at least a few years. In order to get to that point, the Celtics must first rebuild the bodies of their young talent to enable them to thrive in the tough and physical NBA.
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NBA Power Rankings November 23rd 2004
This week’s Power Rankings are here. Look for the Power Rankings every Tuesday. I’ll try to
get them out before the Tuesday night games. Again all comments, concerns and beefs are
encouraged. Enjoy. Don’t forget the Poll.
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Leader of the Pack
Why can’t we let Kobe play basketball? I’m sick of this tired old “Can Kobe lead the Lakers” saga. This same drama has been hashed re-hashed and re-re-hashed. It’s like catching a rerun of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off on TBS; it was pertinent once but Jesus…not this again. It’s like every NBA writer in the country can’t leave this story alone. It’s time to settle the score. Here’s why Kobe can and IS leading the Lakers.
Begin playing any song off of Dizzee Rascal’s “Boy in the Corner” Album.
By Ben Viemeister.
Ever since Hall of Fame point guard Isiah Thomas took over as the President of Basketball Operations of the New York Knicks, he has been spared stinging criticism. Zeke is king. Zeke is flawless. Zeke is a genius. All of these plaudits have contributed to his already massive ego. The addition of Jamal Crawford in light of Allan “100 Million Dollar Man” Houston’s knee problems? Prescient. Trezor Ariza, the human pogo stick from UCLA, stolen in the second round of June’s draft? Another miracle performed by the prophet Isiah. Such excitement over the addition of Ariza and Crawford led to unrealistic expectations.
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Portrait of an Artest as a Hood
By now, you’ve read all about the basketball game that broke out during a brawl at the Palace in Detroit. It’s the number one topic at every water cooler this morning and the leading story on the evening news, not just the sports segment. If peace in the middle east was achieved over the weekend, no one would know about it as we’re all too busy offering opinions on what happened Friday night.
But, as the saying goes, there’s three sides to every story: yours, mine, and what’s caught on videotape. So, let’s go to the tape.
The Ron Artest show just keeps on going and going and going.
Right now it seems like he’s hit a new low. Artest is no stranger to suspensions, brushes with the law, NBA officials, coaches, framed pictures and television monitors. Just a couple of weeks ago, Indiana Pacer Head Coach Rick Carlisle suspended the mercurial forward for conduct detrimental to the integrity of the team, but did not specify exactly what this conduct was. When the press first reached Artest, he initially declared that he did not understand the meaning of the word integrity, something that should surprise no one who has followed the career of the reigning defensive player of the year. After he was (mildly) pressed, he admitted that he had asked Carlisle for some time off, as he was too tired from producing a Hip-Hop album to properly compete in the NBA.
Well, in one of the most bizarre and awful ways, Artest will now get his wish.
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Throwdown in Motown
Dear Commissioner Stern.
I invoke the spirits of Washington and Tomjonavich and beg you to do the right thing. The fiasco that happened in Detroit is easily the worst thing that has happened to the NBA in over 20 years. I personally do not entirely blame the players nor do I entirely blame the fans. But on some level the players must be held responsible for their actions.