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A week ago J.O wrote his piece on the potential Celtics vs Lakers Finals match up, which at the time felt like a perfectly reasonable idea. A few days later it seemed a little premature, with Orlando winning a couple of games and the Suns leveling the series at 2-2.  Now, thanks to [...]

Day 36 – Ze goggles…zey do something after all?
(Lakers v Suns Game 3)
3 votes – Amare Stoudemire: In what might be a first in Playoff Vote history, I’m going to give a guy the 3 votes and then spend the rest of the post venting. So hear me out. First off, Amare was clearly [...]

So I recently moved to Singapore and will be here for a few months because of my real job. Hence the lack of recent updates. But thankfully, they have cable over here and I’ll be able to watch the rest of the NBA playoffs unfold (if they didn’t I may have considered quitting my job). [...]

3 votes – Pau Gasol. This – “We just move the ball to an open guy. They send two guys at me, I’ve done my job… we’ll be ready if that happens” – is what Kobe Bryant said after Game 1. He couldn’t have been more prophetic, because not only did the Suns send [...]

Day 30 – Where Orlando ‘10 looked like Cleveland ‘09

3 votes – Ray Allen. Ray was real smooth in this one. Smoothly draining 8-16 shots on his way to a team-high 25 points, smoothly sneaking into the key to grab 7 rebounds (an equal-playoff high for Ray), and smoothly sinking two free throws with 6 [...]

3 votes – Pau Gasol. Well, it happened. The nightmare that David Stern was so anxious to avoid is now a reality – three of the four Semi-Conference series finishing in a tragic sweep. I certainly don’t remember that happening anytime during the last 20 years I’ve been following the NBA. And it’s not like [...]

3 votes – Kobe Bryant. Despite the Lakers dominance of this series (and the fact they would sweep on Day 24), there have been some damn entertaining games. None more so than Game 3 which had one of the craziest finishes in recent playoff history. Odom, Kobe, Korver and Fisher all made huge threes over [...]

3 votes – Dwight Howard. After waiting 8 days for their second round opponent, you could have forgiven the Magic for being a little rusty. Right? Wrong. Not only did they convincingly win, it was one of those flat-out embarrassing wins that has the potential to destroy the soul of your opponent, with lingering effects. [...]

3 votes – Kobe Bryant. Make no mistake about it, this game was almost a shock upset for the Lakers. After leading by as many as 14, the Lakers lapsed in concentration midway through the fourth quarter, letting Utah hold a 4-point lead at 93-89 with four minutes to play. It was at that time [...]

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3 votes – Kobe Bryant. I saw it, if only for a brief second or two, in between a barrage of shots Kobe was making in the third; that protruding jaw snarl that became a trademark of his ‘09 playoff campaign. For a second there it felt like Kobe was on [...]