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ONE: Congratulations to the Orlando Magic on making the NBA Finals. I don’t care what anyone says, the Magic thoroughly deserved this and earned it the hard way. They were pushed by the Sixers after falling in an 0-1 hole, they knocked out the defending champs in Game 7 in Boston, they withstood [...]

Kobe Bryant has now done something that Tim Duncan never did: lead his team to back-to-back Finals appearances. That thought startled me a little when it first entered my brain, but it’s true. Since MJ and the Bulls faced off against Karl Malone and the Jazz in ‘97 and ‘98, it’s been exceedingly difficult for [...]

So today Kobe did the team thing and it paid off. Not without being a “gamble” in his eyes, which he admitted after the game, but rarely has such a huge gamble paid off. Not just because of the win, but because of what it means. Kobe had his second lowest shot-total of the entire [...]

Too many thoughts, not enough time to organise them…
I wrote this paragraph after the Magic won Game 3 two days ago (honest, I swear):
For years now I’ve been hearing the same phrase, right up until barely a few months ago when Houston were mounting a playoff run. “You’ll never win an NBA championship with Rafer [...]

ONE: Firstly some news regarding our Aussie draft prospects. Joe Ingles recently worked out for the Bucks, while the Hawks are showing some interest in Patty Mills. Also appears Patty may be heading to the Reebok Eurocamp in Treviso, Italy, to try to improve his draft stock. These three links via JR On Fire.
TWO: BlazersEdge [...]

My lingering memory from Game 3 of this series will not be Kobe’s clutch three or Ariza’s steal. It will be Pau Gasol’s fourth quarter performance and the Lakers persistence in running their offense through him. That Gasol needed more touches was painstakingly obvious through the first two games of this series, because as was [...]

This series is one Ariza steal away from being 2-0 in the Nuggets favor, and one Kobe fumble from being 2-0 in the Lakers favor. It’s almost impossible to split these teams over the first two games, but here’s two things we’ve learnt:

The Lakers are incapable of stopping Melo, not because they don’t have suitable [...]

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These Conference Finals just keep getting better. Four games, all decided by three points or less, all coming down to the final seconds. Now you can add to that a seriously historic game-winning shot by Lebron James.
Bill Simmons called it one of the 12 greatest shots in NBA history (he later downgraded it [...]

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Could you have asked for a better start to the Conference Finals? The two games so far were decided by a total of three points, we saw 40 point games from Kobe and Lebron (and a just as impressive effort from Melo), a broken shot-clock by Dwight Howard, a 70-foot hail Mary from [...]

How amusing – we made this image in our first mock draft for 2009.
Mike Dunleavy will be glad he studied it.
1.    LAC – Blake Griffin – 6’9 PF From Oklahoma
Ok, so I’m gonna steal a semi-humorous joke I saw on the NBAdraft.net forum regarding the Clippers and their new stud. All they have to do [...]