NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
LeBron James doing it alone as usual
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Don’t the Cavaliers know they are only renting LeBron James, that his destiny is bigger than Cleveland?
The Cav’s are in round two of the playoffs dueling with the Boston Celtics and Kevin Garnett. No, make that Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and Paul Pierce. See, that is the problem with Cleveland. It is still just LeBron James, the King.
There are those that say James should stay in …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
The Pistons just could not take care of business. They missed shot after shot. It got ugly.
Philadelphia was behind by 15 points in the 3rd quarter and rallied back. With 4 minutes in the 4th quarter, Pistons fans got the sense that the 76ers were going to win. That is an unfamiliar feeling.
Usually at that time of the game it is all Pistons as they choreograph one easy bucket after another and put the stops on opposing team’s offense, but not tonight as an …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
LeBron James career scoring leader for the Cav’s at the tender age of 23
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LeBron did it in 168 less games than Brad Daugherty.
LeBron James now has 10,414 points.
Oh, and his team won, too.
Cleveland 90 Toronto 83
Coach Mike Brown pointed out LeBron is only 23.
The sellout crowd at Quicken Loans Arena immediately rose to give James a thundering ovation and when Brown called a timeout, the All-Star forward first walked to the bench to receive …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Raise your hand if you think LeBron James will be the next Cavalier to shoot
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For Cleveland it was a test drive of sorts of just how will the new players work out in the playoffs.
For Detroit it was game 68 of the regular season. Not a time to get worked up about anything.
Cleveland tried LeBron James on Chauncey Billups. They tried Ben Wallace on Rasheed Wallace.
The Pistons just watched and played. They did …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
LeBron James can do all the shooting. He needs defense from his teammates.
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Detroit and Boston are on top in the East.
Even though Cleveland went to the finals by getting past the Pistons, this is a whole new Cleveland team, although still led by LeBron James.
Cleveland wants bad to beat Detroit.
Cleveland Cavaliers 89 Detroit Pistons 73
A newcomer to one of the NBA’s fiercest rivalries, Wally Szczerbiak didn’t need long to understand Cleveland’s hatred.
“All my buddies, all …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Kobe Bryant gets Pau Gasol
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Which teams benefited the most from the recent signing frenzy?
10. Kidd to Mavericks – This trade fell through, would still have been a great move for the Mavs.
9. Kidd to Mavericks – This trade worked after about a week, is taking longer than that for it to work for the Mavs. Dirk Nowitzki gets the ball in the right place.
8. Bibby to Hawks – Young team needed a scoring leader. …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Ok, don’t take this the wrong way, but that was an easy 50 points if there ever was one.
LeBron James is awesome. There is no question of that and he is the front runner with Kobe Bryant for MVP of the National Basketball Association.
But come on. The Knicks?
Happened to catch the Sports Center Highlights of the 50 point barrage.
What was that the Knicks were playing? You could not call it defense. One gets the feeling that LeBron could have scored all the points if …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
LeBron became the youngest player to reach 10,000 points in the history of the National Basketball Association.
With LeBron coming out of High School scoring like crazy it is no surprise.
Kobe Bryant made 10,000 points at the age of 24 years and 193 days.
LeBron James made 10,000 points at the age of 23 years and 59 days.
Hey, we are getting a numberish here, but you get the idea. Both of these players are great star players and scoring machines.
James did it in 368 games, the ninth fastest in …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
The quiet notes will take quick looks at what is going on in the NBA.
The top teams are:
(in no particular order)
San Antonio Spurs (now with Kurt Thomas) until proven otherwise in the playoffs
Detroit Pistons now with added youth
Boston Celtics with the 3 amigos
The hottest team:
Houston Rockets with an energized T-Mac and best center Yao
Biggest question?
Who will play better? Cleveland with Wallace or Chicago with Gooden?
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NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
This is a monster trade by Cleveland, Chicago, and Seattle.
Cleveland gets Ben Wallace and Joe Smith from Chicago and forward Wally Szczerbiak and guard Delonte West from the SuperSonics.
Danny Ferry, the Cleveland GM, immediately announced they were good enough to win the title.
Hold on, there.
All four players were underperforming, especially Ben Wallace.
Now as a huge Pistons fan, your intrepid author likes Ben Wallace a lot, but he is 33 years old. His best years are behind him. You also gave up Dwight Gooden to …read more