Kareem Abdul-Jabbar lives with Leukemia
November 10, 2009 by James Edwards
Filed under NBA Basketball
NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Please, be quiet about this, tell it to no one. Hey, keep your head down as the secret will be revealed. NBAObsessed can remember when Abdul-Jabbar was Lew Alcindor, a skinny kid from the streets of New York City that was recruited to play for John Wooden. Ok, that would make my age about minus 14.
Here is a classic story that maybe you have heard before and it happened for real to NBAObsessed. Your intrepid author was reading Sports Illustrated in his youth, an annual issue on …read more
Baron comes to town, Clippers are not Lakers
July 15, 2008 by James Edwards
Filed under Golden State Warriors, Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers, Philadelphia 76ers
NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
It is the Clippers.
It is the Clippers, still.
Yes, Baron Davis, one of my favorite players to watch has come to town, but it is still the Clippers.
Baron Davis shooting over Andrew Bynum of the Lakers
Image details: Golden State Warriors v Los Angeles Lakers served by picapp.com
Clippers fans have to be bumming. They lost Elton Brand to the 76ers, because the Clippers upset his manager, David Falk. They lost Corey Maggette to the Golden State Warriors, can’t remember why. Maybe money.
Anyway, even with the signing of …read more
Wilt Chamberlain and the world’s tallest stamp
April 1, 2008 by James Edwards
Filed under NBA Basketball
NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
There is a grass roots effort to get a Wilt Chamberlain stamp.
Gee, would that be the 100 cent stamp? After all, it is the 100 point game that they want to depict.
Anyway, the effort is on and you can join.
The cause was started by sports writer Donald Hunt of The Philadelphia Tribune, a 123-year-old newspaper that primarily targets the black community. Hunt, who recalled as a child watching in person Chamberlain play for the 76ers against Oscar Robertson and the Cincinnati Royals, believes “The Big Dipper” has …read more
