NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Josh Howard has been struggling with a bad ankle for a long time and after a brief attempt at a comeback earlier in the year, decided to sit out until it just felt right and that healing time made all the difference in a big victory by the Dallas Mavericks over the cooling Suns.
Dallas Mavericks 102 Phoenix Suns 101
You can tell the Suns are cooling due to a 5 – 5 record in the last 10 games. Dallas is barely better at 6 – 4, but the Mavs …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Has Dirk Nowitzki started an early bid for MVP with an incredible fourth quarter of 29 points against the Utah Jazz? Dirk had 40 total points on a night when for 3 quarters he just could not get it going and it looked like a boring defeat at the hands of the Jazz, but then the magic scoring hands of Nowitzki went to work and broke Mark Aguirre’s 1 quarter Maverick scoring record.
NBA factoid: Last December Carmelo Anthony had 33 in a single quarter to tie George Gervin’s …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.
It came out during an interview with Rick Carlisle, the Dallas Mavericks are better. Now if you look at the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association there are 3 super teams and the rest is wide open. The super teams would be the Los Angeles Lakers, the Denver Nuggets, and the San Antonio Spurs. After that the West is wide open, with even the rotten teams improving themselves.
The Dallas Mavericks have added Shawn Marion, Drew Gooden, and Tim Thomas to a 6th place team. …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
So is Mark Cuban upset with Dirk Nowitzki or not? Is that why Dirk is not representing the German national team in Poland?
No. Mark simply asked Dirk to take time off if his team qualified for the Olympics and they did that. Dirk Nowitzki claims that he could have played and Mark would not have stopped him, but that was not all there was to it.
“Dirk and I agreed last year after his Olympic run, which was his dream for Germany, that he would take …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Every year you can count on the Dallas Mavericks being very interesting with Mark Cuban as an owner and Dirk Nowitzki as your star player, you have all the makings of an explosive team with explosive ownership. The Mavericks as usual made a lot of moves to change their team. One of the most lethal moves was to pick up Shawn “Matrix” Marion.
The Shawn Marion deal helps; there’s no question about that. In talking with Mark Cuban during summer league he told HOOPSWORLD to expect a …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Shawn aka ‘The Matrix’ Marion is going to be a Maverick and the odd thing about the whole trade, which involved four teams, is nobody can figure out if the Mavericks will be better or not. The plan is to play Shawn at the four spot, but that will involve moving a lot of players around even during the game.
Now maybe that won’t be a problem, because Rick Carlisle is a master at setting up plays and getting players in a position to do their thing, but …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
What is going on with these teams anyway? The Mavericks, Knicks, and Trail Blazers are fighting, that is right, fighting to sign Jason Kidd. Why? He will be a basketball grandpa age of 37 next year and how is he supposed to keep up with the speedy young guards if his team makes the playoffs?
Jason Kidd will be in the Hall of Fame and there is no questioning that at all, but he will be there for piling up stats like the rest of us …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Dallas is struggling to figure out how to stop the Nuggets. There just does not seem to be any one or two players that need stopping. There appears to be a whole bus load.
With the Mavericks moving back home, maybe they can stem the tidal wave of buckets and pull out a couple of victories.
On Tuesday, for the second straight game, Denver’s top two scorers, Anthony and Billups, struggled at the start. But, once again, the Nuggets found others to step up.
Smith, an athletic guard, …read more

The Denver vs. Dallas series was not supposed to happen. If you roll the tape back to the beginning of the year and someone had told you that Denver would meet the Chris Paul Hornets and that Dallas would face the Tim Duncan Spurs, then the choice was easy. The Hornets and Spurs would advance.
But nobody told Dallas and Denver about the script. Not to mention a few other things.
Ok, let’s mention them.
No Manu Ginobili. Would the Spurs have won with him? Who knows, but their chances would have increased signifigantly.
Rick …read more