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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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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NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Dirk Nowitzki will know more Monday, while Dallas holds their breath
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This seems to be an almost impossible scenario.
Who would have thought that Dallas could miss the NBA Playoffs? Dirk Nowitzki hurt his leg in a loss to the Spurs and Tim Duncan. Check out these standings with Dallas way down the list. Only 8 teams make the playoffs. Dallas has lost 3 in a row.
Western Conference
Team GB
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NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Kobe Bryant gets Pau Gasol
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Which teams benefited the most from the recent signing frenzy?
10. Kidd to Mavericks – This trade fell through, would still have been a great move for the Mavs.
9. Kidd to Mavericks – This trade worked after about a week, is taking longer than that for it to work for the Mavs. Dirk Nowitzki gets the ball in the right place.
8. Bibby to Hawks – Young team needed a scoring leader. …read more