NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Sometimes the NBA can take on a whimsical tone with events going beyond reality causing what we know to be totally false. How else can you explain the sudden disappearance of the volatile aggressive Ron Artest that we all have come to know and love? Still, that is what has happened in La La Laker land, where the milk and honey flow in the form of Kobe Bryant, Phil Jackson, and a roof of championship banners.
Ron Artest signed a long term contract for 34 million bucks …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

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.
A team posing as the Houston Rockets showed up at the Forum for a game 7. It was a testament to fortitude that the Rockets were still in this series at all. Just who were these Rockets, anyway? They were led by Scola and Brooks in scoring.
Who?
You know, Scola and Brooks. Oh, you were probably wondering about that Yao guy and the one named McGrady. Those two were not seen at the scene. It was more up to Battier and Artest. …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Why would Stephon Marbury be at a Lakers game?
Did you know he sat in Jerry Buss’s seat? Jerry is the owner, you know.
Marbury is living in Los Angeles, working out at a facility in Manhattan Beach and hiking in Runyan Canyon near Hollywood. This was the second Lakers game he’s attended this year. The first, rather famously, came in December when he sat courtside for the Lakers-New York Knicks game.
But there’s also no connection, Marbury said, between his
attendance Friday and the Lakers’ recent injury woes in …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
So what, they lined up all the internationally born NBA players and raced and Pau Gasol was the eighth fastest?
No, more like he is the 8th fastest European to get to 10,000 points in the NBA.
Pau Gasol shows more of his offensive creativity, and against Utah he reached the 10,000-point plateau for his career. Dirk Nowitzki, Peja Stojakovic and Vlade Divac are the only other Europeans to get there after having come to the NBA directly from overseas.
Only 286 players overall in league history have scored 10,000 points, …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Pau Gasol takes a seat to nobody when playing basketball in the NBA

In the world of “yeah we kind of figured”, Mitch Kupchak came out and admitted the Lakers kind of stole Pau Gasol from the Memphis Grizzlies. Really? And we just kind of thought the Lakers were lucky?
Originally the Grizzlies wanted more for Pau Gasol.
The deal included Kwame Brown and weren’t the Lakers aching to get rid of him, Aaron McKie, the long time NBA veteran role player, rookie Javaris Crittenton, and two …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Ronny Turiaf says “Oh yeah, no more purple outfits”
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The Lakers reluctantly did not match the offer of the Golden State Warriors for Ronny Turiaf. He was a restricted free agent and the Lakers had the rights to match any offer.
The Warriors signed Turiaf, a restricted free agent, to a four-year, $17 million offer sheet last week. By rule, the Lakers had seven days to decide whether to match it. The three-year veteran from …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Superbad Superman has a stress fracture, but not to worry. It will heal in time for the next set of practices on July 21. That is when training camp resumes.
“It’s a six to eight week recovery time, and this is the sixth week,” said Team USA coach Mike Krzyzewski, who expects Howard to be fully healed by the time the team reconvenes for training camp July 21.
Still, the injury is worrisome for the Americans, who are planning to go to Beijing with just three big men …read more