NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
The NBA Title series ain’t what it used to be, by 10% to be exact. Ratings were down 10 percent according to an AP article in ESPN.
At first blush that seems kind of bad for a series featuring Phil Jackson going for his 10th coaching title and Kobe Bryant trying to prove he can be a one man band, but it has to be kept in the context of being compared to last year’s dream matchup of the Celtics and Lakers.
Boston brought in Kevin Garnett and had …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.
Boston Celtics rule the world or at least the NBA World.
Paul Pierce is MVP and played fantastic.
Kevin Garnett reminds us that anything is possible.
Defense rules and the Lakers better get one.
Redlasso gives us this video from after the final seconds.

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Kevin Garnett was so emotional that he was crying one moment and shouting out the next moment. Boston absolutely dominated the last game of the series.
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NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Paul Pierce cannot be stopped. Not by Kobe. Not by anyone.
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Sam Posey or SAM missile. He just keeps burying 3’s.
Paul Pierce, not Kevin Garnett. It is the Paul Pierce series. Hey, Kevin is averaging a double double, but it does not matter. Paul Pierce is dominating.
Pierce had waited for his chance to be one of those generational Boston sports icons, and the Celtics had stopped surrounding him with …read more