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So it happened again. In last year’s Finals Game 4 we saw the Celtics historic comeback, an improbable win snatched from the jaws of defeat, a 48-minute nightmare that LA would wake from only to see the insurmountable 3-1 deficit staring back at them. It happened again this year, not a comeback [...]

Pau Gasol is an underrated defender. While Bynum will get the starting nod on Dwight, I expect him to rack up fouls quicker than it takes Dan Hung to whip up his salty squid. So Gasol will find himself defending Dwight for most of the time, and this isn’t a terrible mismatch for the Lakers [...]

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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 [...]

3 votes - Hedo Turkoglu. Before the season started I wrote this about Turkoglu: “I’ll be interested to see if Hedo can continue to be The Man - the amount of big games and game-winning shots he hit last year was ridiculous. Was last year a fluke for Hedo? Time will tell.” Well I think [...]

Day 11 - The day we said goodbye to the Spurs
3 votes - Paul Pierce. On Day 9 regarding the Bulls-Celtics series I said “Surely the remaining games of this series won’t be able to top Game 4? Right?” Impossibly, you could very well argue that Game 5 did. There have been enough crazy shots [...]

It had to happen. Dwight Howard has been suspended for Game 6 for that ever-so-slight elbow glance in Game 5. If you haven’t seen it, here tis:
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As Charles Barkley said about one hundred times in the TNT brodcast, that pretty much equates to throwing [...]

I’m very excited to announce that NBAMate is running a competition to give away a Derrick Rose Rookie of the Year t-shirt, as well as a Dwight Howard Defensive Player of the year t-shirt. These shirts are both valued at $20 (I know, we have a big budget here!) and commemorate the awards won by [...]

3 votes - Lebron James. From very early on in this game it was clear Lebron wasn’t going to get the calls he got back in Cleveland. And that’s when Mike Brown started getting hot flushes: “Once he decided to say, `Hey, I’m not getting calls. I’m going to will this team to a win,’ [...]