NBA Blog

First I would like to give a quick heads up for my readers that my traffic is increasing and I’m on top 5 on MSN live search for the keywords “NBA Blog”. And second, I have a cold now and I need some Vaporizers to help me in my breathing to be able to continue with my work today. Too much for that, I will give a quick recap on what happen to the league. Boston Celtics still leads the league with 6-0 win loss record. San Antonio hanging tough in 2nd place with a 6-1 win loss record. But I don’t think it will stay that long because San Antonio will face Dallas Mavericks today as they square off in Texas match-up.

Surprisingly, New Orleans Hornets won 7 out of 9 games. And they’re now threatening to become a playoff contender this season. But in order to obtain this they will have to stay healthy, especially Peja Stojacovic and Tyson Chandler. Because this two key players of New Orleans Hornets are prone of injury based on their career history over the last 5 years. We have to look out for this. Utah Jazz starts hot and pick up what they left off last NBA Playoffs. Carlos Boozer leads the pack and Deron Williams provides some clutch shooting. Andrei Kirilenko always there to defend and block shots, Mehmet Okur provides inside defense, and they have a new guy that they can rely on the shooting guard spot, Brewer.

The league is now more balanced and you cannot predict on who will win this years NBA ring. Let’s see in few months if the trend will still continue, if New Orleans can make it to the playoffs, and Utah, San Antonio, and Dallas will be the power in the west.

NBA Season 2007-2008 has started and there’s nothing usual with the outcome of the games played. Teams with high profile roster wins. Houston Rockets and San Antonio Spurs tops the west and Boston Celtics (with the big three on it’s lineup Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, and Kevin Garnett) and Detroit Pistons tops the east. Boston is proving to everybody that they’re now the new powerhouse in the west not just in papers but also in games. Houston Rockets, is off to another good start. But how long they will stay this hot. Tracy McGrady is playing just like the old days when he single-handedly carried his team on his back and Yao Ming is still keep on improving on his offensive plays. I’ll be out of the country to visit Moscow, and I will be missing live NBA games. But good thing that I have subscribed to a Internet TV website to watch NBA games.

Yao Ming is averaging 24.0 ppg and 10.40 games while Tracy Mcgrady is averaging 27.3 ppg, 5.9 rpg, and 5.7apg and Houston Rockets current win-loss record is 6-1. They managed to beat their rival in Texas, San Antonio Spurs but their  only lost this season is came from Dallas Maverics. In Eastern Conference, Boston is dominating the league by winning 5 games without a loss. Ray Allen, Kevin Garnett, and Paul Pierce the new big three is now threatening to be the new Eastern Conference champion atleast. Detroit Pistons is also impressive this season. Rip Hamilton, Rasheed Wallace, and Chauncey Billups is playing really well and back on their championship caliber shape.

While again browsing the internet researching about the History of Baseball, Grant Hill recently has signed a contract to Phoenix Suns and will be ready to play this year NBA Season. Grant Hill is absolutely a questionable player this year. But we know what he can do if he’s healthy. According to news Grant was courted by 10 other teams but he chooses to sign with Phoenix Suns because he said that it was the closest team that can bring him championship ring. But Grant Hill might be wrong because one of the key players of the Phoenix Suns, Shawn Marion has expressed his interest to be traded. But this might be a window of opportunity for Grant Hill to take the place of Phoenix small forward.

Honestly, I’m a big fan of Grant Hill 8-10 years ago but this changed when he returned from his injury. Slowly but surely Grant Hill is coming back to his previous shape and game. I’m wishing him the best this season and hopefully he could throw back again his in-your-face slam dunk and leg twisting cross over move. I wish I could turn back the time to see again the mind blowing moves of Grant Hill. Hopefully he could show off the real Grant Hill in Phoenix. With Steve Nash on his side, this is not possible.

While trying to research honda motorcycles in the internet, I’ve realized an interesting situation right now regarding Europe Basketball and NBA. They said that sooner or later European basketball will be famous and will dethrone NBA because of salary issue. Some European players are thinking twice now of playing in the NBA. Because European players don’t get good offers in the NBA and instead European teams offers much higher salaries and some other freebies like cars and accommodation.

Mikael Pietrus, Andres Verejao and Sasha Pavlovic are having problems now with their current team on the renewal of their contract. And according to reliable reports they have offers in European team. There are lot of rumors that are spreading now in the NBA that European team wants to pirate few solid players in the NBA. I’ll update this blog regarding the development on these rumors.

While watching this video of Western Culinary Institute my friend called me on the phone to tell the latest trade rumors in the NBA. He was very excited to tell me regarding the Andrei Kirilenko, Shawn Marion, and Lamar Odom rumor trade. It has been over the news that Shawn Marion will likely to go to Lakers to joined his friend Kobe Bryant for a possible playoff run. Andrei Kirilenko has expressed his disappointment with the current structured play of Jerry Sloan and he wants out of the team. Kirilenko has recently lead his russian team to win the gold at FIBA-Europe Championship and become the MVP of the tournament. The trade also involves Lamar Odom and Brian Cook to be sent to Utah.

Lamar Odom has proven to the league that he’s almost unstoppable when he’s healthy. The problem with Lamar Odom is to remain healthy. He can give you 40-50 solid games a season but the rest he’s right at the bench watching his team because of series of injuries. Lakers need someone that could give them a lift in the defensive end because as of the moment their poor defense is the problem why their not a contender in the title. With addition of Shawn Marion Lakers can be one of the toughest team in the NBA. Let’s wait and see on what will happen before the tip-off.

I’m back again for another NBA scoops and insights. With 2007-2008 season is fast approaching, nearly 6 weeks left before the tip-off I have to make a prediction and hypothesis on who’s team has the chance to win the precious NBA title. Too bad I won’t be there to watch the tip off because I’m scheduled to inquire here. Back to the story, Dallas was knocked-out by the less favorite Golden State Warriors, led by Baron Davis and company last season, but they still my favorite team to win the NBA title. The reigning world champion San Antonio Spurs is also my favorite to win the title. As long as they stay healthy (Duncan, Ginobli and Parker). This two teams will reign supreme in the Western Conference.

How about in Eastern Conference? Does Miami and Detroit can still be the favorite to win the eastern conference title? Probably yes and probably no. It would take a matter of time before we could predict on what team will clinched to the NBA Finals. With the recent addition of Garnett and Ray Allen on the lineup of Boston, they can still be a contender if they could gel on the team. What about the surprise young team of Toronto Raptors? They also have the chance but not sure if they race to the next level this time. They need to atleast double their intensity and effort this year because the
“NBA Powers” are shifting to eastern conference right now. There are too many teams in the eastern conference still have the ability to reach the NBA Finals atleast. Some of them are New Jersey Nets, Orlando Magic and Chicago Bulls.

Coming off a buzzer beater, Russia won the gold medal on the recent EuroBasket2007. Russia subdues the reigning world champion Spain with a slim margin of 1 point. It was really a close game from the start and up to the final buzzer. Andre Kirilenko a.k.a. AK47 lead the team with 17 points. And not only that, he also led the team by showing examples and leadership to his teammates. I’ve downloaded the game winning basket by Jon Holden on my iphone so that I could remember the game for years to come.

It was a historical game for Russia because they haven’t won the tournament since they joined the tournament the last time their country won the tournament they we’re called Soviet Union before which won 14 golds on EuroBasket. With the win Russia is now qualified to Beijing Olympics next year and together with Spain and Lithuania to complete the European team that will compete on Olypics.

Yesterday when I was browsing an Marketing Blog it came across to my mind about the latest NBA Live PC game series. I’m looking forward to NBA Live 2008 because I’m an avid gamer of NBA Live Series. What I’m looking forward to NBA Live 2008 is the recent trade of the big time players like Garnett and Ray Allen. Also I want to see an enhanced version of dunks. I want to see more highlight dunks like tomahawk dunk and wind mail dunk. I would like also to see the rookies like Greg Oden and the Joakim Noah because their the two players that I love watching on the recent NCAA season.

I saw NBA live 2007 isn’t impressive really but I saw another NBA game in PS2 that I like more than NBA live 2007 when my friend asked me to play his new NBA game. Unfortunately it isn’t available in PC version. Hopefully the creator of the game can make the game available in PC. I saw the game available as well in XBOX 360. I’ll take a screen shot of the game when I have the chance to borrow the game from my friend. Till my next post

USA and Argentina still doing what they’ve started. They cruise to another devastating win today with a win over Mexico and Venezuela, respectively. I saw the results while looking for a Philadelphia medical malpractice attorney that will help me with my case. I think both teams will compete for the FIBA-America Finals. Carlos Delfino and Luis Escola leads Team Argentina from Day 1 and Carmelo Anthony and Kobe Bryant on USA Team. I really want to see the showdown between Argentina and USA. But I don’t think Argentina can win the game because USA Team composed of solid lineup. Argentina is reserving their key players like Manu Ginobli, Andres Nocioni, Fabricio Oberto and other Argentinian players playing in the NBA. They probably will play on Olympics next year. And will win another supremacy in Basketball.

This is the tournament that no doubt USA team will win. But I don’t think they will win the Olympics. Spain and Argentina are still the favorite to win the championship. But we don’t know what lies ahead maybe Italy or Greece can also be a surprised in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. China still need more key players before they can win a title in Olympics. What about Germany? With Dirk Nowitzki doing all the job, they cannot make it to the championship round. And France are also a contender with Tony Parker playing the best basketball of his young career together with Boris Diaw and Mikael Pietrus. France have a very deep lineup as well like Argentina.

The USA Senior Men’s Basketball Team cruised to a 112-69 win over Venezuela on their first match on FIBA-America Qualifying Tournament. They looks promising with these devastating win. As expected Jason Kidd, Carmelo Anthony, Kobe Bryant, Lebron James and Dwight Howard led the team. Let’s see on how far they will go. Meanwhile, I’m browsing a website about free credit card processing when I saw a news about Laterell Sprewell. Sprewell wasn’t active in the NBA for 3 years now. He reject an offer 3 years ago by Minnesota about $21 million contract. Sprewell’s Yatch was recently repossessed by New York Bank.

Back to the US Men’s National Basketball Team. Kobe Bryant made some great move during the game versus Venezuela. Not only his offense but also his defense. As always Carmelo Anthony deliver the points for the Team USA, Jason Kidd made lot of great assist, Lebron James made some spectacular dunks and Dwight Howard sealed the rebound and take care of the inside. The team would definitely is a complete lineup right now unlike before. I’m excited to see Team USA compete with Argentina and Brazil which is one of the favorite to go to Olympics.