3 votes – George Hill: I know it’s going to seem like I have a man-crush on the young Spurs combo guard. After all, his line isn’t really that impressive – 21 points on 7/12 shooting to go with 6 rebounds. But if you watched the game, you know. You know that he was clutch [...]

3 votes – George Hill: Manu’s shot wasn’t falling. Timmeh (4 points) and Parker (10 points, 5 turnovers) plain stunk it up. So George Hill’s big night wasn’t only impressive, it was also absolutely crucial to the Spurs’ hopes of winning the series. The kid had 29 points on 16 shots, including 5 threes – [...]

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3 votes – Derrick Rose: Excellent game by Rose, notching up 31 points and 7 assists without a single turnover. He managed to stay both aggressive and under control throughout the game, which is never easy for young point guard to do. His fourth quarter was particularly impressive; after [...]

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The second day of the NBA playoffs kicked off with a shithouse game between the Lakers and the Thunder; both Kobe and Kid Delicious put in stinkers, and it never felt as though the Thunder were a real chance to pull an upset. Just as expected, the Lakers length troubled the [...]

They’re finally here. The 2010 NBA Playoffs. The second season. The reason we play 82.
On the eve of Day 1 of the playoffs, Ant and Rob break down each series the old-fashioned way, position-by-position, as well as telling you what really matters. You know, like what beer to drink, who you should be rooting for, [...]

No doubt all of you are sick to death of all the speculation about LeBron’s future. Article after article essentially saying We don’t know jack. Or even worse, the not-so-subtle “hints” dropped by unscrupulous journos who try to spin every basket James makes at Madison Square Garden as some sort of secret love poem to [...]

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Recently I’ve spent quite a bit of time trying to come up with a fitting NBA comparison for the Andrew Bogut i2.0 that’s been unleashed on the NBA in the last two months. I wanted to be able to preach the greatness of the BoGod to those who are [...]

There are very few things uglier than blind patriotism. To borrow a line from Irish playwright G.B.Shaw – who had been known to fling a ball or two at his local peach basket – it is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
So in theory [...]

Part II of Ant’s look back at the NBA decade that was.
In Wednesday’s post, I wrote about two mid-decade events that changes the stylistic landscape of the NBA. But there was another big factor that helped improve the quality of play league-wide – namely, teams got smarter. Or rather, the better teams got smarter. At [...]

Ant is the newest writer here at NBAMate. When he’s not over-loading the server with his long, rambling, over-hyphenated posts, he’s fighting for the revival of the fedora as a mainstream fashion item or bluffing his way through a cricket conversation with work mates. He is the thinking man’s NBA blogger, so lock-in and enjoy.
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