NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
The New Jersey Nets are going for the NBA record books with an official shot at the all time open the season and lose games record. The 1988-89 Miami Heat and the 1999-2000 Clippers each started at 0 – 17. That is nothing for the Nets. They have already tied that record and are embarking on a whole new standard of losing.
As a lifelong Detroit Tigers and Detroit Lions fan, your intrepid author has seen some monumental losing. Hey, my Grandfather and my Father …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Once again we visit the “what have you done for me lately” NBA. This time a team with no talent called appropriately the New Jersey Empty Nets have been called upon to fire a once upon a time young coaching prodigy. His name is Lawrence Frank and he is now referred to as the Ex-Coach of the New Jersey Empty Nets.
You have to understand that in the NBA, if you have no talent or your talent screws up and you lose a bunch of games, the …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

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

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Byron Scott in with the new.
Avery Johnson out with the old.
That was the swan song of the Coach of the Year award.
New Orleans 99 Dallas 94
Top 10 reasons Hornets eliminate Mavs
10. Chris Paul at beginning of a potential Hall of Fame career, while Jason Kidd near the end of potential Hall of Fame career.

Chris Paul had 24 points, 15 assists and 11 rebounds, and the Hornets held on for a 99-94 victory over the Dallas Mavericks to win their first-round series in five games.
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NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
In a game of two awesome point guards, it was the lack of defense that stood out.
Dallas came back in the fourth quarter with a 16 – 0 run to take the game. A game that Phoenix led from the get go and had a 13 point lead in the 3rd quarter.
Dirk scored 32 points on one ankle as the Mavs won 105 – 98.
Dirk Nowitzki signals he can score on one ankle or two
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NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
The Warriors suffer the consequences of Dirk Nowitzki’s early return.
After being declared unfit to face the Golden State Warriors, Dirk played anyway.
Johnson used another “s” word—steel—to describe Nowitzki. The big German had 18 points and five rebounds in nearly 27 minutes, but there’s not a stat sheet anywhere that describes how the reigning MVP was most valuable against the Warriors.
A dejected-looking Nowitzki told reporters hours before the Golden State game that he didn’t think he’d be ready to go. Maybe he was sandbagging. Or maybe he had time …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
All the after the fact analysts are now claiming the Jason Kidd deal was such a dumb move by Mark Cuban.
The facts? No victories against above .500 teams and the West is loaded with above .500 teams.
Now they have all this analysis about what Devin Harris brought to the team or even, oh yeah, get this, DeSagana Diop.
Excuuuuse me? What a bunch of baloney.
The Mavericks lost to the Warriors in the first round last year. The out of control Warriors took them down.
Was Devin Harris …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Dallas is hanging by a thread.
19 games after trading twice for Jason Kidd, the Mavericks are 10 – 9 in those games, but have zero victories against winning teams. Zero.
Now they are missing Dirk Nowitzki with leg and ankle injuries.
How ironic they had to face the Nuggets, the very team that may put them out of the playoffs. The Nuggets are the 9th team in an 8 team playoff bracket. They want in, bad!
Allen Iverson can feel it.
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NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
The sweet J of Dirk Nowitzki will be missed

Dirk Nowitzki update.
Nowitzki met with reporters for about 10 minutes Monday to discuss the leg injury he sustained the previous day. He said he feels fortunate it’s only a moderate high-ankle sprain and a mildly sprained knee and he hopes to be back in a week or two.
But he also realizes it could be longer and the Mavericks might miss the playoffs without him.
“This is probably the most painful time to miss games,” Nowitzki said. “That’s very discouraging.”
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Yesterday you were …read more