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.
Who are these guys?
Deron Williams? All everyone talks about is Chris Paul of the Hornets, or the arrival of Jason Kidd in Dallas, but Deron Williams is off to a great career with that hidden team, the Utah Jazz. Deron had 14 assists by half time. Half time!
Mehmet Okur? All everyone talks about is Shaq going to the Suns, or Dirk Nowitzki lighting it up for the Mavs, or the return of Andrew Bynum, or Pau Gasol gaining new life with the …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.
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

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Jerry Stackhouse may not be all smiles if the Jason Kidd trade does not go through
Jerry Stackhouse gave an interview saying New Jersey would buy out his contract, then after the 30 day waiting period, Stack could return to the Mavericks in a prearranged deal. source
This is illegal. It is called tampering. The league may not allow Jerry to return to the Mav’s if the trade happened.
Mark Cuban does not want to lose Stack.
Wow, this just keeps getting better. First, Devean George and his Bird Rights, and now …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Jason Kidd not going anywhere right now!

Wow!
In what looked like another blockbuster trade of an Eastern Conference team to a Western Conference team, did not happen.
Whether this trade gets done or not is up in the air right now.
There appears to be a contract snag with one of the players to be traded, Devean George.
Dallas Wins
Dallas went out and beat Portland anyway.
George started because of an injury to Josh Howard — and went 0-for-11. He had no points, four rebounds and two assists in 33 minutes.
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Dallas also was …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Rasheed Wallace calls for low post offense
In the pre Super Bowl marquee NBA matchup, the Detroit Pistons showed why defense wins championships.
Holding the powerful offense of the Dallas Mavericks to 29 points in the second half, the Detroit Pistons easily won the afternoon game.
Detroit had lost in Dallas in January in a typical Maverick racehorse affair. They were determined not to play that way this time.
A special focus was put on stopping the high scoring Dirk Nowitzki and it paid off with Dirk missing shot …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Dirk Nowitski firing the ball over Steve Nash
Steve Nash gets all the good pub.
Steve Nash gets the MVP awards.
Dirk gets no respect at all. Watch a Mav’s game and even the ref’s give Dirk no respect.
Does not matter, because Dirk is just going to keep on firing the ball up on all kinds of long jumpers. When the ref’s do call a foul, Dirk steps up and buries it with textbook form.
Dirk Nowitski has been over 30 points in 4 out of the last 8 games.
Your intrepid author …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
The return of James, your basketball author. Now the good and the bad. The good is that my most excellent boss and coworkers filled in quite nicely and that is most appreciated.The bad is that James is diagnosed with Cancer and undergoing chemotherapy. Fear not, they say the cancer is one that is curable, so let us move forward with our dreams of basketball!
John Schuhmann gives you the NBA.com power rankings with emphasis on the top 5.
1. San Antonio – last week number 3.

15-3
Off: 115.8 (1), Def: 104.9 …read more