NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
It is going to be the most exciting free agent year of all time next year and you can add the super powered guard from Miami to the list. Dwyane Wade will be joining LeBron James, Chris Bosh, and Amare Stoudemire, among others, as 2010 free agents. This just keeps getting better. (Note, appears my Pistons won’t have any free agent money or at least the kind to land these guys.)
Now don’t get me wrong, the rules are rigged to keep a player in his …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Hey, the Heat can forget about Amare Stoudemire.

Miami finally took that option Friday, taking the Heat out of the chase for Marion’s ex-Phoenix Suns teammate Amare Stoudemire.
In a deal first reported by ESPN The Magazine’s Ric Bucher, the Heat agreed to trade Marion and guard Marcus Banks to the Raptors for O’Neal and swingman Jamario Moon.
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All Shawn Marion did was lay down a dunk to beat the Bulls and then get shipped out of town.
Is this deal a big deal?
well, no, maybe, yes, depends.
O’Neal gives Miami a center. …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Today we bring you guest blogger Marquis Chapman.
What’s up NBA Obsessed fans. My name is Marquis Chapman and it’s an honor to lend some of my opinions about the latest NBA news and headlines for NBA Obsessed. Writing about the NBA and its players is a hobby I picked up while in college. I hope to one day contribute articles for SLAM and DIME magazine or any other publication that represents the young NBA sports fan.
Livingston hopes to bounce back from this devastating knee …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Michael Curry will try to right the Piston ship
The NBA is proud to bring a brand new coach to your area. They did it for 8 teams.
Think about that. 8 new coaches.
Ever heard of a brand new coach immediately winning it all? It has probably happened, but not to my knowledge.
Usually you just fired the last coach because the team stunk so bad he could not make them win.
So this year we bring you the 8 trying to make …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Shaun Livingston takes a bite out of crime
Shaun Livingston played for the Clippers and destroyed his knee. The Clippers eventually renounced their rights to Shaun. Now Shaun is trying to latch onto another team as a free agent.
Livingston worked out in Portland on Friday, and two league sources believed the Blazers are the favorites to sign the ex-Los Angeles Clippers guard. Still, it is unclear whether Portland general manager Kevin Pritchard has been convinced enough to add yet another guaranteed contract to his roster.
Minnesota executives Jim …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Adrian Dantley guarding Larry Bird

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Wow! That is all you can say about a Hall of Fame class including Hakeem Olajuwon, Patrick Ewing, Pat Riley.
But for me there is a double Wow for Adrian Dantley.
Pat Riley had this story about Adrian Dantley and it says it best.
Dantley was playing for the Los Angeles Lakes in the late ’70s, and Riley was the traveling secretary.
It was Riley’s job to assign seating on planes, and he always sat Dantley next to the reticent Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Dantley always wanted …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Shaq vies for another ring
The story will be written from here on out. The Shaq trade has implications for both conferences. The fallout can be seen everywhere. Can it be coincidence that the yesterday’s trade news for Pau Gasol to Kobe’s Lakers lost to the Hawks? You may have to read that twice. Shaq brings his presence and salary cap to Phoenix and new GM Steve Kerr. If Shaq is a bust then Kerr will again be a brilliant TV announcer. Kerr had a valid concern. The center-less …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
By Guest Blogger, Kori Ellis
If you hadn’t watched an NBA game since June of 2006 and you watched the Heat game on Friday night, you would’ve thought nothing had changed. The Heat, who won the 2005-06 NBA championship, had Dwyane Wade and Shaquille O’Neal dominating like they did on their championship run.
Wade had 31 points, five assists, three rebounds and two blocks in 41 minutes of action. Shaquille O’Neal had a season-high 26 points to go along with a season-high 14 rebounds. O’Neal also had three blocks, two …read more