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.
Stephon Marbury, the man that had the Starbury shoes, has decided to take off the shoes for one year and just sit. Well, he is going to do more than sit, because he plans to build up his empire even more. So as a business decision, he will not take the 1.2 million to go back and play for the Boston Celtics.
Business decision as in no other team really wanted a selfish old point guard.
Hey, you are picking on one of my all time favorite players, …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Rasheed Wallace was never one to shy away from making bold statements. When he was a Detroit Piston there were a few playoff games where Rasheed Guaran-Sheed a victory. Usually the Guaran-shee came true, but not always.
Now before you get all huffy about Rasheed keep in mind that players like Rasheed help the attitude of your team. You need a player that is so fearless, so tough, so outspoken, with a dash of bad boy to them to put down the other team and trivialize …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.
If there is a deeper team in all of basketball, then they automatically deserve the NBA title, because the Boston Celtics are super deep.
Now the Celtics have signed Marquise Daniels, the former Indiana Pacer.
Daniels is coming off the best of his six seasons, averaging career highs of 13.6 points and 4.6 rebounds in 54 games with the Indiana Pacers, 43 of them starts.
The 28-year-old Daniels spent three seasons with Dallas before moving to Indiana. For his career, he is averaging 9.4 points in 351 games, including 109 starts.
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Marquise …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
The National Basketball Association, run by Commissioner David Stern, really knows how to do it right. They will open the season on October 27th. According to the calendar on my computer that is a Tuesday, so maybe they don’t have everything perfect.
To start the season off with a bang the league has 4 games on that day including the San Diego Griffins…er Los Angeles Clippers vs. the Los Angeles Lakers. That would be L.A. vs. L.A. on TNT. (Which brings to mind, how can …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
The Boston Celtics missed out on going to the Finals last year and they were not even close, mostly because Kevin Garnett was injured. Along the way, they found out that Glen “Big Baby” Davis can play some ball and the Celtics decided to keep him. He just takes up a lot of space in the lane and causes matchup problems for the opposition.
Now after a bitter contract dispute, he is finally in house and signed.
Davis’ signing was announced today at a press conference at the …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Just how many old guys can the Celtics stock up on? Let’s see they have Grandpa Kevin Garnett, age 33 with 14 years in the league. Then there is Grandpa Paul Pierce, age 32 with 11 years in the league. Then there is Grandpa Ray Allen, whom they shopped around this winter, but nobody wanted a 3 point shooter that used a walker, soon to be age 34 with 13 years in the league. (Stats from NBA.com)
Now they reach for the geritol and sign …read more