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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 [...]

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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 [...]

Day 24 - The Day the Cavs Swept… Again
3 votes - Dirk Nowitzki. This was an absolutely epic game, one of the best so far these playoffs. Dirk scores 19 in the fourth on his way to 44 points (his fifth career 40-point game in the playoffs), Melo scores 41 and a last second three [...]

Thanks to the flight home and Mother’s Day, I’m a little behind with the Playoff MVP votes. Time to do some catching up. We’ll do a vote tally at the end of the second round.
Day 20 - The Day the Cavs went up 2-0
3 votes - Lebron James. Another faultless performance by Lebron and another [...]

3 votes - Lebron James. I would love to have given these votes to someone else, especially in light of how pathetic Detroit have been, but how can you ignore 36-14-8 and another perfect performance from The King? If you want to draw analogies to the 1991 Bulls v Pistons playoff series, go ahead. A [...]

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,’ [...]

3 votes - Brandon Roy. 42 points on 15/27 shooting, including 12 in the fourth, most of which came against one of the league’s best defenders in Artest. That can of whoop-ass is officially open. The most alarming thing for the Blazers, is despite Roy’s massive game and Aldridge’s 27-12 and Yao’s measly 11 points, [...]

OK, so I drank a fair bit of Hatorade with the five things I hate about LeBron, but I’ve cooled down somewhat after getting over what is now only whispered as ‘The J-Rich Foul’. In the interest of balance I’m going to outline some reasons why LeBron deserves some respect.
5. He plays in Cleveland. Let’s [...]

Last season I said that Kobe Bryant had a problem. Despite a reinvigorated team and a shiny MVP trophy, 2007-2008 was essentially the season that Kobe failed. Failed to win a championship and take advantage of perhaps the best chance he’ll ever get to win one. People look back now and remember the Celtics dominance [...]