Player Bios

Thank You, Kobe Bryant

When Kobe Bean Bryant was drafted in June of 1996, I was approaching 13 years old. Becoming a teenager was a big deal, but to say that I was nearly as old as my new favorite player was even bigger, because quite frankly, I wanted to be like him. With Charles Barkley nearing the end […]

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NBA News

Jimmy, Paul and Chris: How the West Might Be Won

Technically, the NBA’s offseason started the day after the NBA Finals were concluded. And officially, the next NBA season won’t start until late October…which means, as basketball fans, we should be taking it easy. Yeah, right. Within a couple of weeks, the whole NBA landscape was tossed and turned over. With three trades, our expectations […]

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NBA Draft

The Finals Rookie Project

In the NBA, more so it seems than the other major sports, making it to and finding success in the Finals is more important than anything else. Westbrook averaged a triple double for a whole season? Kawhi was the best two way player since Young Lebron? Anthony Davis is a cross between Durant and Garnett? […]

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NBA Playoffs

Predicting the Western Conference, Round 1

Since the great Michael Jordan’s retirement, the Western Conference has won 10 of the last 14 NBA championships. Funny enough, nine of those 10 rings were won by two teams that will be pitted against each other in the 1st round: the Los Angeles Lakers and the San Antonio Spurs, two former dynasties. While the […]

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Season Reviews

The NBA Playoff Push: Final 2 Weeks

As we approach the last two weeks of the NBA regular season, we are starting to see major storylines develop.  Over the years, no part of the regular season has been more exciting than the closing weeks, where over half of the league fights for a playoff spot, a higher seeding, and/or sometimes, strategically rests […]

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NBA News

Kobe Bryant climbs to fourth on scoring list, surpasses Wilt

When it comes to scoring buckets, there are only three players ahead of Kobe Bryant: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, and Michael Jordan. On Saturday night, against the Sacramento Kings, Bryant slipped past Wilt Chamberlain’s 31,419-point mark, and currently sits fourth on that illustrious list of all-time dominant scorers. The big question is, have we seen a […]

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