NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Joe D has done it again. This time he has lured high scoring combo guard Ben Gordon to the Detroit Pistons for a reportedly 55 million buckaroos and 5 years. A hefty price, but well worth it.
So what does Gordon bring to the Pistons? Ben Gordon brings the ability to shoot and score from range in a playoff situation. If you watch enough NBA ballgames, you will notice that some players can accumulate stats in the regular season and not do it in the …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
There was David Stern giving his annual pre finals state of the NBA address. This year it was quite interesting, as it was announced that the Charlotte Bobcats would most likely be up for sale. That in itself would be news, but you really have to realize how tough it is to make a buck in the NBA.
News has leaked in recent weeks that Bobcats majority owner Bob Johnson, who founded the team in 2004, was losing over $10 million annually from his original $300 million …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
What is up with Shaq and all the Dwight Howard bashing. It just never seems to stop with this guy.
First let us lay the ground work. You will find me to be a big Shaq fan, even watching Kaazam and trying to enjoy it, even putting up with all the anti-Kobe stuff. So why does Shaq have to go after Dwight Howard?
In the past year alone, Shaq called Howard an “impostor” and insisted that, “Everything he’s done, I’ve invented,” and on and on. On opening …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Every year you hear the same thing about how the NBA is rigged so it will be a final with Boston and L.A. or a final with LeBron and Kobe or Shaq and Tim Duncan and every year we all fall for the same story line.
But the NBA is not rigged. There, it had to be said. Well, there were those times when my Pistons were, uhh, let’s save that story for another time and just stick with the NBA is not rigged, even though we …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Hey, this Dwight Howard guy is pretty darn good. Well, we all know that is an underestimation for the ages. Howard has been dominant.
Oh, yes, LeBron has been LeBron and is still clearly the greatest player this side of Kobe Bryant, but Howard has turned his team into winners and carried them on his back. When he becomes unstoppable underneath, then the Orlando shooters like Rashard Lewis, Hedo Turkoglu, Rafer Alston, and Michael Pietrus become great 3 point shooters.
Vinnie Johnson once remarked after making a …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
No sooner do you put out a post on how great LeBron is and how much of a battle he is in with Kobe Bryant to be the best player and along come the Magic and make LeBron all human again.
News flash, LeBron is not the Terminator.
Movie news Terminator Salvation: Your intrepid author got the chance to see this movie this past weekend and the Terminators did not fare any better than LeBron did in game three. Like LeBron, the Terminators missed their free throws late …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
It is a great time in the NBA when legends are being born and young players are maturing into great players. As an example, the battle of player supremacy is going on between LeBron James and Kobe Bryant.
It does not matter which side of this debate you take or even if you do not take a side at all, because this is just great theatre in the NBA.
Side note on theatre: watched Night at the Museum II with Ben Stiller and Amy Adams (not to mention …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Chauncey Billups is all the rage right now. It seems like everything he does works and everything he touches turns to gold. Gold Nuggets, that is.
Always known as a heady player when he was a Piston, nothing has changed while on the Nuggets. Check out this YouTube of Chauncey dropping the ball off of Kobe’s back to create a score.
If the Nuggets win they will have to point to Chauncey and say he led them there. Funny thing is, if Chauncey was still with …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Ok, pull it together; this game did make sense, only you were in denial. Well, same here, denial, denial. You have to look at the facts of the recent past and the facts say that Orlando is 9 – 3 against the Cav’s in their last 12 meetings.
But it was Cleveland’s home court. Surely, LeBron is going to turn it on, right? Yes and Yes.
LeBron was magnificent as usual with 49 points, but it just was not enough.
On the other hand, Dwight Howard was …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Jerry West just happened to mention that LeBron James has moved ahead of Kobe Bryant in the race for best imitation of Michael Jordan on an NBA court. How could he say that?
Kobe denies even hearing it, but went out and put up 40 on the Denver Nuggets in game 1 of the Western Conference finals in the forum in Los Angeles.
Kobe is competitive, extremely, and as bad of grammar as that sentence is, it is ever so true. It had to hurt to hear a …read more