NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Phil Jackson is the best coach in the game today.
You want proof. 10 NBA Titles.
Big deal, you say? How about 10 out of the last 19? Now that is incredible.
With this last title, Phil Jackson has become the NBA coach with the most NBA titles passing Red Auerbach of the Boston Celtics and Phil did it in the age of the free agent.
Those are staggering statistics, especially in this era of free agency, expansion and the salary cap.
Still, there will always be some – …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
The NBA Title series ain’t what it used to be, by 10% to be exact. Ratings were down 10 percent according to an AP article in ESPN.
At first blush that seems kind of bad for a series featuring Phil Jackson going for his 10th coaching title and Kobe Bryant trying to prove he can be a one man band, but it has to be kept in the context of being compared to last year’s dream matchup of the Celtics and Lakers.
Boston brought in Kevin Garnett and had …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Why do you doubt this guy year after year, thinking he can’t coach his way out of a paper box unless he has a superstar box cutter on his team. That is the excuse you have used for years. Oh, Phil, he has that superstar player, that is why he wins.
The only problem with that argument is the other coach, the one coaching the team Phil is beating, also has a superstar player on his team and he is losing. Meanwhile, Phil just keeps on …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Pau Gasol is getting banged around by Dwight Howard, but what did he expect? Dwight has only one style of play and it involves a lot of muscle applied in a not so gentle manner.
Pau rubbed the back of his head to the referee for a visual explanation.
Then again, Pau is not the most physical center in the league and Dwight is going to have to be physical to compete with Gasol. If Dwight Howard lightened up for even a moment, the crafty Pau …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Orlando fans need to relax and enjoy, because they can win game 3. Usually the way these series go, the home team of the favored team (that would be the Lakers) will win big at home and be lucky to scrape a 1 point victory on the road.
Consider that Orlando had the ball and a chance to win at the end of game two and it bodes well for the Magic to win game 3. Especially look for Dwight Howard to have a big game on …read more

The Magic had an opportunity to win game two of the series against the Lakers when Courtney Lee took an alley oop pass and attempted to bank it off of the backboard and into the hoop with the scored tied. The replay shows Pau Gasol getting his hand caught in the rim as the ball is hitting the backboard.
Is that goaltending? If so, the Orlando Magic should be headed home tied 1-1, not down 0-2 heading into Tuesday night’s Game 3 of the NBA Finals. source
This is just too freaky, because they just aired the 72 Munich Germany USA …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
There was David Stern giving his annual pre finals state of the NBA address. This year it was quite interesting, as it was announced that the Charlotte Bobcats would most likely be up for sale. That in itself would be news, but you really have to realize how tough it is to make a buck in the NBA.
News has leaked in recent weeks that Bobcats majority owner Bob Johnson, who founded the team in 2004, was losing over $10 million annually from his original $300 million …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
What is up with Shaq and all the Dwight Howard bashing. It just never seems to stop with this guy.
First let us lay the ground work. You will find me to be a big Shaq fan, even watching Kaazam and trying to enjoy it, even putting up with all the anti-Kobe stuff. So why does Shaq have to go after Dwight Howard?
In the past year alone, Shaq called Howard an “impostor” and insisted that, “Everything he’s done, I’ve invented,” and on and on. On opening …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
The Lakers are primed and ready and feel that no team can stop them from taking the NBA 2009 title series from the Orlando Magic.
Who cares about the Celtics and the injured Garnett?
Who cares about the Cavaliers and the non-talking LeBron?
Who cares that Dwight Howard seems to be coming into his own and was more than Cleveland could handle?
Not the Lakers, their focus is only on winning the title and not on who shows up to play against them or how they got there. Even though Jackson …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Have you figured this out yet? Dwight Howard will stay in Orlando because he is under contract for the next 4 years to the Magic. Still Dwight Howard is saying all the right things and why not, with the NBA Finals coming up and the whole world taking a look at Dwight Howard the basketball player instead of Dwight Howard the dunker.
Dwight is loving the fans.
“I tell my friends this: I want to stay here. It will be based upon the city. We want the support …read more