NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Grant Hill, who used to play for my Pistons (as if the ownership was mine. ha-ha) and Jason Richardson, who used to play for my Michigan State Spartans (hey, your intrepid author did graduate from there and paid a ton of expenses for that diploma, which sort of makes me an owner.) led Phoenix to their 5th victory in a row.
Phoenix 118 Denver 115
Now in the who cares category, why should we care?
Hey, remember how crowded the playoff situation is in the Western Conference with 7 teams …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Are we forgetting Tim Duncan? Will the Spurs just go away? Has Duncan lost his drive?
Nah!
Tim is always ready come playoff time and as usual is the ultimate mismatch player alternating short drives with post up moves making it very difficult to stop him.
But take a look at the Western Conference.
With just a little over 10 games to go in the regular season.
The Lakers dominate with 54 victories and look solid with a returning Bynum.
But the rest of the group?
Houston 46 victories
San Antonio 45
Denver 45
New Orleans …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Man, today there was this crazy thought rolling through my head. What if the Pistons had kept Chauncey Billups and Iverson had stayed on the Nuggets?
Nowhere to go with that thought, so how about taking a look at how some of this player movement and coaching movement is working out?
Chauncey Billups from Detroit to Denver
Denver is 7 – 3 in their last 10 games and in 1st place
Allen Iverson from Denver to Detroit
Detroit is 4 – 6 and in second place.
Ron Artest from everywhere to Houston
Houston is …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
OK, we are all up in arms about NBA players signing overseas. What are they thinking of? This is the NBA. Stay here.
Sun Yue taking it to the rack

Of course, they are thinking of money and lots of it.
So why are we not up in arms when the NBA signs some other countries player?
Sun Yue
The Lakers signed Sun Yue of the Chinese team.
The 6-foot-9, 212-pound Sun was the Lakers’ second-round draft pick last year. He played with the Aoshen club in Beijing and with the …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Superbad Superman has a stress fracture, but not to worry. It will heal in time for the next set of practices on July 21. That is when training camp resumes.
“It’s a six to eight week recovery time, and this is the sixth week,” said Team USA coach Mike Krzyzewski, who expects Howard to be fully healed by the time the team reconvenes for training camp July 21.
Still, the injury is worrisome for the Americans, who are planning to go to Beijing with just three big men …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Kobe about to be fouled
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Kobe is expected to be presented with the NBA MVP award, but he got in a hurry and put on an MVP performance for the LA crowd in defeating the Utah Jazz.
Los Angeles 109 Utah 98
Kobe set a foul shooting franchise record.
Bryant, celebrating what’s expected to be his first NBA MVP award, converted six of his franchise playoff-record 21 foul shots in the fourth quarter, and the Los Angeles Lakers …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Tracy McGrady in his signature form, shooting the jump shot in Atlanta
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It has to be smoke and mirrors.
How are they doing it? There is no Yao. The ultimate collapse was predicted.
Yet, the Houston Rockets rolled once again.
Houston 83 Atlanta 75
Ok, so the Hawks are not exactly prime time with Mike Bibby or not, it is still 20 in a row!
The Rockets tied the second longest win streak in NBA History and were led by …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Wilt “The Stilt” Chamberlain knocked down 100 points in a single game in 1962.
The Warriors won, 169-147, setting what was then a record for the most combined points in a game by both teams. But the game is most remembered for the 100 points scored by Warriors center Wilt Chamberlain, who demolished the NBA single-game scoring record. source
How good was Wilt?
In the following night, Chamberlain got the permission to travel back to New York with three Knicks players. According to Cherry, Chamberlain drifted in and …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.
Tim Duncan, the Big Fundamental, goes to work on New Jersey
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How do they do it?
They do it with defense.
The San Antonio Spurs have the best record in the Western Conference. They just extended their longest winning streak of the season with a 10th win in a row against the Vince Carter New Jersey Nets. They are one game better than the Kobe Lakers.
San Antonio 81 – New Jersey 70
That’s right, 70 stinking points.
“Think about this. They …read more