NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Maybe you have missed the big news about the economy? It is becoming more apparent that the whole crash thing with the banks and the stock market was all a hoax or maybe it has run its course, because money is floating around everywhere. Boston just floated a whole boat load of money over to Rajon Rondo to keep him from becoming a restricted free agent in the upcoming blockbuster free agent market of next year.
League sources said the extension is for five years and guarantees …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
This is it for all the marbles, the opener for Boston and Cleveland and a matchup that may well decide the Eastern Conference Championship. Not that this particular game will settle anything except, the losing team will not go undefeated. Still the NBA, in its usual sharp marketing way, decided to match the two super powers up right away.
Many NBA fans do not even pay attention until the NFL has reached playoff time in January making it difficult if not impossible to pull in a full …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
If you go back in time to the 2006 – 07 season for the Boston Celtics and you have a team in disarray struggling to gain 24 victories. They had a team of individuals with such players as Michael Olowokandi and Sebastion Telfair. They were headed nowhere. There was even an Allen Ray, instead of a Ray Allen.
Paul Pierce was moody and despondent to say the least and often took his seat at the far end of the bench to be alone with his thoughts.
Now …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Danny Ainge is a good guy? No, that is not what is being said here.
So Danny Ainge is a bad guy? No, you are just putting words in my mouth.
Danny is Danny, a Celtic for life. He played on those great Boston Celtic teams with the Chief, Bird, McHale, and Dennis Johnson. Every year it seemed they battled the Los Angeles Lakers of Kareem, Magic, and Worthy. Those were some great ballgames.
Now Danny is the GM of Boston and already has a NBA title to his credit and …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
With a minute left in the 4th quarter and the scored tied, Derrick Rose took Rajon Rondo to the hole and drew a suspect foul, but it was not a shooting foul. On the ensuing play, Derrick Rose slipped going to his left and the ball rolled out of bounds. Interesting, the Bulls go to their rookie point guard with the game on the line.
A blurb on the TV showed that there had been 80 lead changes in the 5 game series. 3 of these …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Chicago has it all set up for them to win easily at home tonight, but easily just does not come easily in the NBA playoffs. The Bulls may not find the friendly home confines to be the answer they are hoping for.
Derrick Rose needs to find a way to slow down Rajon Rondo before they change his name to Raging Roundballer. Rajon had a triple double on a sprained ankle in the last game. That is right; he did it on one leg. Pretty …read more

Here is a team that won over 60 games playing a team that won only 41, but that 41 is deceptive, because they added Salmons and Miller to that roster and Derrick Rose just kept on improving.
This is not a blog about the Celtics being one and done, but it does play into my prediction from last year.
Funny thing about predictions, you can always bring up the ones that are correct and just forget the ones that are way off. Even timing just gets in the way of the truth. It is kind of like golf, fishing, or …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Derrick Rose led the Bulls over the Celtics in a first round road playoff victory.
Chicago 108 Boston 95
Derrick had a great year as the leading rookie in the NBA (my opinion), but he saved his very best for this game. The Celtics are fragile playing without Kevin Garnett and the Bulls are hungry with their star rookie looking the hungriest of all.
Rose followed up his 11 assists with a season high 36 points.
If USA Basketball kingpin Jerry Colangelo has any doubts about the availability of Chris Paul …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Pay attention, this is not a blog by yours truly. Today we bring you a special treat. This is a blog by Graham Brunell and he is a talented writer for Celtic 17.
Today Graham writes about Rajon Rondo the quick and improving guard for the Boston Celtics.
Here are some outtakes.
Why Rajon Rondo wasn’t an All Star, and Why he WILL be in the future.
Rajon Rondo, one of the best point guards in the NBA today, was not selected to be an all-star. Why, you ask? We’ll …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
As a follow up to the Part I of Rodney Stuckey is candy and a Rose blooms – Part I, your intrepid author would like to show you some interesting comments by Coach Michael Curry of the Detroit Pistons.
Keep in mind, Joe Dumars hired Curry in part because he is such a great student of the game and the players of the game.
This comment came after the Pistons beat the Bulls.
After the game, Pistons coach Michael Curry described Phoenix’s Steve Nash, San Antonio’s Tony Parker and Denver’s Chauncey …read more