NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
It often seems like a mistake to me that teams will go so far in the playoffs, lose and then use that loss as a map for how the team should be defined the following year. For example, if your team loses to a team with a big center that posts up, like a Shaq, then in the off season you trade a starter to get a defensive low post player. That rarely makes sense to me.
Orlando failed to consult with NBAObsessed and went ahead and …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Dwight Howard is Superman and if you have watched him play through the years then you know his super powers are improving. In other words, Dwight is getting more offensive moves and learning better how to get position on defense. He is becoming the best center in the game. We have to use the word becoming, because Tim Duncan is still playing.
The question being asked is why Dwight Howard needs Vince Carter.
This is tough because your intrepid author is not a big Carter fan and …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
If you have seen the movie Ice Age and the sequels Ice Age II and III, then you know there is a squirrel in the movie that really has nothing to do with the movie, but is obsessed with a giant acorn. Each movie shows clip after clip of the squirrel named Scrat chasing after this giant acorn.
Dwight Howard feels he is Scrat and the NBA Title is his giant acorn and he is obsessed with getting the acorn.
Another not so gentle giant named Shrek or would …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Now as performance enhancing drugs go, DHEA is not all that great and can commonly be bought at health stores everywhere. Rashard Lewis was mixing it in his smoothies and as every athlete that ever tested positive for drugs; he claims he did not know it was illegal.
Lewis, who will turn 30 on Saturday, said he took an over-the-counter supplement near the end of last season which he did not know contained the banned substance. He told the Sentinel the substance was in powder form and he …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
This will be more about opinion and less about facts, sorry about that. Hedo Turkoglu has opted out of Orlando and will be a free agent. Orlando decided to sign Vince Carter from New Jersey.
Wait, those are facts. Now comes the opinion, and feel free to chime in and disagree.
Orlando will be worse off with Vince Carter. While Carter can put up numbers, he does not play winning basketball and he cannot check anyone. Ok, he held my grandma to less than 10 …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
The Los Angeles Lakers are a team known for talent and coaching and Kobe Bryant. What they are not known for is toughness. In last year’s series against the Boston Celtics, the lack of toughness haunted them and drove them out of the playoffs.
This year they face the Orlando Magic a team known for toughness with one of the toughest players in the league, the very physical Dwight Howard. Everyone felt the Lakers were the better team, but Orlando was hot and playing physical. Would the Lakers fold …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Pau Gasol is getting banged around by Dwight Howard, but what did he expect? Dwight has only one style of play and it involves a lot of muscle applied in a not so gentle manner.
Pau rubbed the back of his head to the referee for a visual explanation.
Then again, Pau is not the most physical center in the league and Dwight is going to have to be physical to compete with Gasol. If Dwight Howard lightened up for even a moment, the crafty Pau …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Orlando fans need to relax and enjoy, because they can win game 3. Usually the way these series go, the home team of the favored team (that would be the Lakers) will win big at home and be lucky to scrape a 1 point victory on the road.
Consider that Orlando had the ball and a chance to win at the end of game two and it bodes well for the Magic to win game 3. Especially look for Dwight Howard to have a big game on …read more

The Magic had an opportunity to win game two of the series against the Lakers when Courtney Lee took an alley oop pass and attempted to bank it off of the backboard and into the hoop with the scored tied. The replay shows Pau Gasol getting his hand caught in the rim as the ball is hitting the backboard.
Is that goaltending? If so, the Orlando Magic should be headed home tied 1-1, not down 0-2 heading into Tuesday night’s Game 3 of the NBA Finals. source
This is just too freaky, because they just aired the 72 Munich Germany USA …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