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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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

It was only a few weeks ago when we were claiming the Lakers as unrivaled Western Champions, the Nuggets seemingly filling up the #2 spot by default because everyone else was playing more crap than they were. How things have changed. Not only have the Lakers come off an extremely shaky looking series against a [...]

Boston, Cleveland and Miami. The three teams responsible for terminating the Pistons championship hopes in the last three seasons and absolutely gutting their fans. Boston in ’08 in an anti-climaxic Conference Finals, Cleveland in ’07 thanks to a Lebron miracle, and Miami in ’06 on their way to their Wade-lead championship. Go look at the [...]

I was just young enough to remember the significance of a regular season Lakers vs Celtics game in the eighties. It carried no more weight than any other regular season game - it was just another W. But it was a chance to see Magic vs Bird and everyone understood how precious these days were. [...]

No pretenders here. No sir, these guys are playing into May… and that’s where they’re stopping

Cleveland Cavaliers
It amazes me how far this team has gone the last two post seasons. They were only a 45 win team last season (which means that would have missed the playoffs in the West), yet they almost handled the [...]

See Parts II, III and IV of the Dyansty Feature
As soon as the San Antonio Spurs convincingly swept the Cavs in the 2007 NBA Finals, the following two questions were inevitable: Does this San Antonio team, having won four titles in nine years, qualify as an NBA dynasty? If so, where do they fit amongst [...]

The fact that it was a sweep doesn’t make it the worst Finals ever. The fact that it featured two teams with no flair and a “boring” style of play doesn’t make it the worst Finals ever. The fact that the TV ratings sucked doesn’t make it the worst Finals ever. And the fact that [...]

Painful. For Cavs fans and NBA fans alike, this series is becoming extremely painful. As I said in an email to my friend earlier today, this could become the worst NBA Finals series in history. I qualified that statement by saying that if we got at least one close game the series might be saved. [...]