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.
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.
Los Angeles won its first playoff game against the Denver Nuggets.
The Lakers and Kobe Bryant exposed the Denver Nuggets weakness on defense. That weakness would be actually playing defense, which Denver does not really want to do. It is more fun to shoot baskets.
Kobe Bryant telling Allen Iverson to guard him once in a while, it is embarrassing
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Pau Gasol was the high scorer. Denver sent out invitations for Los Angeles to score in …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.
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

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Kobe was smoking hot with 52 points, 22 of them coming in the 4th quarter.
The Lakers won the game in OT 108 – 104 over the Dallas Mavericks.
In what has to be one of the best basketball quotes in a while, Avery Johnson the coach of the Mavericks expounds on their defensive philosophy used to stop Kobe.
“We gave him a single look, then we double-teamed him, then we gave him a triple-team and he split the triple-team and scored,” Johnson said. “We tried to zone him, …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Think the Pau Gasol trade makes no difference?
Think again.
Even without Andrew Bynum, the Lakers won their ninth in a row.
Los Angeles 96 Portland 83.
Kobe had his usual 30 points. Kobe also added 9 rebounds and seven assists.
Pau Gasol had 15 points and 10 rebounds.
The Lakers are on a roll.
Second-year backup point guard Jordan Farmar tied a career high with 21 points for the Lakers, who lead the Western Conference by one game over San Antonio and Phoenix and are 40-17, just two wins behind last season’s total …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Jason Kidd cannot pass on a good deal

New Jersey seems intent on trading Jason Kidd to the Dallas Mavericks, so GM Rod Thorn traded Kidd again to Dallas.
The new deal — as reported by various media outlets Sunday night, all citing anonymous sources — has Kidd and forward Malik Allen going to Dallas for point guard Devin Harris, center DeSagana Diop and swingman Maurice Ager, plus a few new pieces: retired forward Keith Van Horn and Trenton Hassell.
New Jersey also will get two first-round draft …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
LeBron James All Star MVP – Time to get out of Dodge err Cleveland!
With David Stern happy to have NBA Marketing Icon LeBron James as the MVP of the 2008 All Star game, the world can move on.
If you had to lay odds, it had to be James as MVP.
The NBA is a marketing organization, not a sports organization. Right now the future of the NBA seems secure, with possible expansion out of the USA and many stars in the league, but it can change …read more