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Video: Kobe Bryant HD
I came across this video on Slam Magazine’s website and thought it was magnificent. Without a doubt Kobe Bryant will go down in history as one of the five greatest players in NBA history. This video looks back at Kobe being drafted into the NBA as a skinny 17 year old and provides the commentary of many NBA greats and journalist drooling over his game. It is definitely a great watch, check it out!
Glimpse into the 2011 NBA playoffs
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This season’s version of the NBA playoffs have already featured the elimination of the western conference’s top seeded San Antonio Spurs, a 46 point game from the Orlando Magic’s All-Start center Dwight Howard and a 40-foot three-point bank shot from the Atlanta Hawks sixth man scoring machine Jamal Crawford that helped eliminate Howard’s Magic. The Boston Celtics swept the injury depleted New York Knicks while Kevin Durant lead the Oklahoma City Thunder over the New York Knicks, I mean Denver Nuggets. The championship contending Miami Heat, Chicago Bulls and defending champion Los Angeles Lakers also advanced to the second round.
At the beginning of the season I predicted the south beach marriage of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh would lead the Miami Heat to a championship this season. That prediction was looking pretty bad when the Heat started the season 9-8 and lost their first three match-ups against the defending eastern conference champions, the Boston Celtics. However, the Heat won their last regular season game against Celtics pretty convincingly and now lead the squad from Bean town 2-0 in their eastern semifinal best of 7 series.
The Heat have looked super human and the Celtics have looked their age. While Miami moves up, down and over the court at will, the Celtics have looked…..old. Ray Allen, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett are all fighting injuries while Rajon Rondo has looked disinterested on defense the past two games.
The Heat will capture this series in 5 games and will defeat the Chicago Bulls in the eastern conference finals. As long as Carlos Boozer continues to play poorly, the Bulls will have no chance to reach the NBA finals.
Eric Gordon drives the paint and throws it down over Tim Duncan
San Antonio Spurs lock in guard Tony Parker with multiyear extension – ESPN
Tony Parker has signed a multi-year contract extension with the San Antonio Spurs. Parker was rumored to be interested in moving on to another team if he did not reach an agreement with the Spurs. Unfortunately for the Knicks, Parker will not be talking his talents to MSG after this season is over.
San Antonio Spurs lock in guard Tony Parker with multiyear extension – ESPN.
