NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Steve Nash is 35 years old. He was drafted by Phoenix in 1996 in the first round and played part of his career for the Dallas Mavericks and then returned to the Phoenix Suns. He has averaged 14 points and 8 assists for his whole career and in case you were thinking he is slowing down, he averaged 21 points and 14 assists last year.
Steve Nash has a new project because this year’s Phoenix Suns are not the group that was a dominant Western Conference title …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Shawn Marion is known as the Matrix and he can do it all on a hoop court. For years he operated in near anonymity in Phoenix. It got so bad that Shawn threatened to leave just so he could be the man on some other team instead of third banana behind Steve Nash and Amare Stoudemire on the Suns. Finally the Suns gave him his wish and dealt him to the Heat for the Shaq. The Heat were not very good and needed a …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Terry Porter was fired by the Suns and replaced by Alvin Gentry.
GM Steve Kerr has no clue. He took the very successful running offense that could not get it done in the playoffs and fired its architect in Mike D’Antoni.
Then Steve hired Terry Porter to bring in the Detroit Pistons defensive style of play. Huh? Same players completely opposite styles? Won’t work and it didn’t.
Porter was in the first year of a three-year, $6 million deal to replace Mike D’Antoni, who left after four …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

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Jason Richardson is flying through the air

Jason Richardson was traded to the Phoenix Suns from the Charlotte Bobcats.
The multiplayer deal will require the Suns to part with forward Boris Diaw and defensive ace Raja Bell, two mainstays from the team that averaged 58 wins over the last four seasons under former Suns coach Mike D’Antoni.
Suns-Bobcats Trade Comparison
The Suns upgraded offensively with the acquisition of guard Jason Richardson (right). Here’s how the numbers break down:
Player PPG RPG APG
To Suns
Jason Richardson 18.7 4.1 2.6
Jared Dudley …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Shawn Marion shows off his Matrix WWE move with the knee smash from up high
Shawn Marion is an amazing player and if you have ever watched him play for the Phoenix Suns or the Miami Heat, you would have been amazed. Just how does he do what he does? And that jump shot or whatever you want to call it, just where did that come from and how come no coach ever made him change it? Maybe because it goes down even from long range?
Anyway, …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
The Shaq has let us know he is a force.
“I’m always going to be a force,” O’Neal said. “Whatever team I’m on is going to have a great shot.”
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The Shaq always will be a force, even in his basketball old age.
Shaq bemoans the fact that he will never be a jockey

These are the new Suns and they must be given the chance to prove themselves under new coach Terry Porter. The good news is that Shaq seems motivated.
The new Suns are a fascinating study in change. The …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Michael Curry will try to right the Piston ship
The NBA is proud to bring a brand new coach to your area. They did it for 8 teams.
Think about that. 8 new coaches.
Ever heard of a brand new coach immediately winning it all? It has probably happened, but not to my knowledge.
Usually you just fired the last coach because the team stunk so bad he could not make them win.
So this year we bring you the 8 trying to make …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Steve Nash can play defense with his hands tied behind his back

Now that is something we are not used to, the Phoenix Suns adding defense to the lineup, but new coach Terry Porter wants more balance on the court.
Remember the legendary Suns vs. Mavericks games that included barrages of points from both sides? Steve Nash against Dirk Nowitzki. Well, forget that, it is not going to happen anymore. Rick Carlisle is running the Mavs and Terry Porter is running the Suns and both of them …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
If you are Steve Nash and you are going to sit out some NBA basketball games, you might as well play soccer

Nobody lives forever and apparently nobody starts most NBA games forever. Steve Kerr is planning to play Steve Nash in only 70 of the teams 82 games. That is the plan anyway.
Steve Kerr is a disciple of Gregg Popovich, the coach of the Spurs. His theory is to keep his star players rested for the playoffs.
Looking at Tim Duncan’s minutes, Popovich has rested his …read more