NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Oh boy, this changes things almost entirely. Cleveland has to be as happy as you can get. Kevin Garnett will not be in the playoffs. He has a knee injury that will not heal.
Celtics coach Doc Rivers said Thursday that Garnett will not be ready for Game 1 against the Chicago Bulls and possibly won’t be back at all.
“It’s not official that he’s out for the entire playoffs, but it’s official as far as I’m concerned,” Rivers said before practice at the team’s workout facility. …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.
Six years and 111 million bucks.
But Gilbert Arenas took less.
The Wizards offered Arenas a max contract — $127 million over six years — leaving it up to the unpredictable Agent Zero to decide whether he would live up to his previous statement that he would take a lesser amount if it would help the team sign other players and improve the prospects of contending for an NBA title. Arenas negotiated the deal without an agent while traveling in China on a promotional tour for a shoe company.
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The Wizards …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Can Paul Pierce take his injured knee and guard Kobe Bryant and still score points?
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Doc Rivers is cautiously optimistic about his two injured starters.
Pierce (sprained right knee) and Perkins (sprained left ankle) spent much of the media-access portion of practice riding stationary bikes, and coach Doc Rivers indicated he was more optimistic about Pierce’s chances of playing against the Lakers than he was about Perkins’s, even though the fifth-year center said he …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Without Chauncey Billups there will be more pressure on Rip Hamilton
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Chauncey Billups plays or does not play. He plays well or does not play well. Why, some even think he should not play.
What?
Not play? What are you talking about?
The Pistons can beat the Magic in a best-of-seven series without a fully effective Billups, but they’ll have no chance against Boston or Cleveland in the next round unless he performs at close to 100%.
And if Billups …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Least they forget who has ruled the Pacific Division in recent years; Phoenix brought their ‘A’ game.
The Phoenix Suns have won the Pacific Division title in each of the last three seasons, due in part to their success against the Los Angeles Lakers.
With the Lakers in the midst of their longest winning streak in nearly four years, though, the Suns’ dominance suddenly appears to be in jeopardy. source
Could Chris Weber soon be a Laker?
It was, of course, a game without Andrew Bynum, but this is not the time …read more

Welcome to the Hit and Run of NBA Basketball, where power and brute force are pitted against speed, athleticism, and grace in the never ending struggle for the NBA Championship!
Greg Oden was supposed to turn the Portland franchise around. Instead he finds himself sitting at home for the upcoming season.
He was with his mother at home when he found out how serious it was.
“I kinda looked at my mom and said, ‘I’m out for the season? You kidding me?’ ” he said.
Oden will be on crutches for six more weeks. Full recovery likely will take six to 12 months. …read more

Just when the LA Clippers found a replacement for the injured Shaun Livingston as the backup of Sam Cassell in journeyman Brevin Knight, the Clippers are faced with yet another problem. Their star Elton Brand went down with an injury to his left Achilles Tendon during a workout
Elton Brand’s injury is going to keep him out for a while which will hurt the team badly.
Achilles tendon injuries typically sideline NBA players for at least a year, which would theoretically threaten Brand’s availability for all of the 2007-08 season.
But ESPN.com’s Marc Stein reports that the Clippers have received a preliminary medical …read more

The Denver Nuggets always seemed to have an injury curse over their shoulders these past few years. This season Kenyon Martin sat out the season after sustaining an injury and last season the Brazilian Nene also had to sit out from an injury. This recent piece of news takes that curse further as their athletic swingman JR Smith and an undentified passenger were seriously injured after experiencing a car crash as his SUV collided with another car.
Smith and the unidentified passenger were ejected from the SUV in the crash, which occurred around 5:30 p.m. on Stagecoach Road in Millstone …read more

Gilbert Arenas sustained an injury to his left knee which will sideline him for 2-3 months. This injury pretty much puts an end to a very interesting and productive season for the Agent 0. The Wizards are unfortunate to have been dealt this blow since Arenas is the star of the team and to make things worse, fellow team mate and star Caron Butler also got injured recently and he’ll be out for even a longer time. Without Butler and Arenas, only 1/3 of the dynamic trio will be around to lead the team’s offense in Antawn Jamison. Adjustments will …read more