Russell Westbrook has always been regarded as a special talent since entering the league as the #4 selection in the 2008 NBA draft. A brief collegiate career at UCLA featured him at shooting guard alongside Darren Collison raised questions by scouts about how he would adapt to the point in the NBA. They are no [...]
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Brandon Roy returned to action this week inspiring and reviving his Portland Trailblazers playoff hopes. In his return, the Rose Garden played the theme music to Rocky, and the Blazers pulled off a 96-87 victory. All was good in Blazerland. Roy had returned, albeit to a bench role, and the Blazers had tied the series [...]
Thursday, April 22, 2010
The San Antonio Spurs notched a 102-88 victory in Dallas to tie the first round of the Western Conference playoffs 1-1. Richard Jefferson finally came alive for delivering 19 points, providing much needed support to the Spurs “big 3″ Manu Ginobili, Tim Duncan and Tony Parker. Jefferson’s emergence couldn’t have arrived soon enough for San [...]
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Deron Williams has always been my vote for the NBA’s best overall point guard. In game 2 of the first round of the Western Conference Playoffs he put his team on his back, and without starters Andrei Kirilenko and Mehmet Okur, led the Utah Jazz to a 114-111 win in Denver. The Jazz tied the [...]
Monday, April 19, 2010
Expectations that the Portland Trail Blazers would have any chance in the playoffs after Brandon Roy was sidelined with microscopic surgery on a torn meniscus were slim to none. However, in game 1 Andre Miller matched Steve Nash nearly point for point and assist for assist, giving Blazer Nation hope while leading a Portland attack [...]
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Kevin Durant’s sentiment is that of disrespect on Phil Jackson’s comments of Durant’s preferential star treatment and prowess of excessively getting to the free throw line. Durant is saying all the right things, taking the high road, and planting countering seeds via the media into the minds of newspaper-reading referees. The thing I takeaway from [...]
Monday, April 12, 2010
While walking the streets in Shanghai I constantly keep my eye roving in all directions to see what variances I can discover between the NBA presence in the USA and China. After all it’s the little things in life that makes life interesting. The first thing I noticed happened during the first night I was [...]
Friday, April 9, 2010
Derrick Rose and the Chicago Bulls are gaining steam at the quintessential time of the NBA season. Rose and company finally resembled a playoff-worthy team with the return to proper form, and health, by Luol Deng and Joakim Noah. The Bulls wrung out a hard fought 109-108 victory over the Eastern Conference leading Cleveland Cavaliers [...]
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