LeBron is Stealing Home Court from Kobe
April 2, 2009 by James Edwards
Filed under Cleveland Cavaliers, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Los Angeles Lakers
NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
All you had to do was look at the Lakers team at the beginning of the year and they were the odds on favorites to win it all. Sure the Celtics were going to be tough, but think about it, they were getting older and had lost a few key players and maybe were not as hungry. The age factor especially was going to be an issue. You can only go so long without an injury or two when you play hoop for that long. Garnett, Allen, and Pierce have been playing that long.
Kevin Garnett is trying to decide who is better, the Lakers or Cavs?
But hold on here, haven’t we forgot a team? Like Cleveland?
Cleveland? Yeah, they actually present some odd match ups on the court that just seem to work because the best player on the planet is on their team. That would be LeBron James, but Cleveland is more than King James. Mo Williams and Delonte West with Anderson Varejao, and Zydrunas Ilgauskas give the Cav’s a unique mixture of size and defense that make LeBron even more effective.
Now it appears that the Cavaliers may take home court advantage into the playoffs.
Cleveland 61 victories
Lakers 59
But despite going 10-4 in March, the Lakers (58-15) are two games behind for the best overall record to the Cleveland Cavaliers (60-13) — who are 15-1 this month.
The Lakers are at the Charlotte Bobcats today in the sixth of a seven-game road trip, while the Cavaliers look to extend a franchise-best 12-game winning streak in hosting the Detroit Pistons.
Making up two games won’t be easy. “We’re certainly not going to win out,” Lakers coach Phil Jackson says of closing the regular season on a 9-0 run. “But we’ll continue to put pressure” on the Cavaliers.
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The Cav’s ended up beating the Pistons and the Lakers took down the Bobcats, so the difference still stands and the number of games are running out.
Don’t sneeze about it, home court advantage is huge!
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