Lakers V. Celtics Tonight!
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Lakers V. Celtics Tonight!
Kobe Bryant rockin’ some Celtics gear.
Some how I feel like both Lakers fans and Celtics fans are shedding a tear over this, both of them for completely different reasons. Don’t worry Lakers fans, this was during pre-draft workouts. And if you really want to feel good about your fandom, the Celtics passed on drafting Kobe (I’m pret-ty sure of this one) and opted to draft Mr. Shimmy himself, Antoine Walker.
Take a second and imagine just how different the world would have been. Championships, MVPs, and entire seasons would have been altered if Kobe ends up in Beantown instead of Hollywood. What becomes of Shaq? Are Eddie Jones and Nick the Quick enough? Would Kobe have been the star Boston needed to carry on from the end of the Bird era and prevent their 20-year Championship drought? Would Kobe still find delicious playmates to sleep around with? Who knows.
Now only if we can get a picture of Kobe during his New Jersey Nets workout.
via @marcel_mutoni
The Magic’s monumental implosion Thursday night in a contest in which they once held a 27-point lead, was, to say the least, responsible for inducing millions of facepalms across the land and all manner of fans’ skewering analysis. The scoreboard going into the half was 58-37, in favor of Orlando. But just how did the Magic end up in the hands of such an ugly fate, at the end of only 48 minutes? (I mean, it didn’t even go into O.T.!) NBA Playbook provides some video post-mortem.
Without Ray Allen, Keyon Dooling, Mickael “Peaches” Pietrus, and Rajon Rondo, the Boston Celtics held the Orlando Magic to 56 points. 56 points over four quarters of basketball. Was it an off night for Orlando or a glimmer of hope for the Celtics to build upon?
All this talk about Lamar being back in L.A. tonight. Let’s not forget that Kendrick is back in bean town.
Ray Allen’s reaction to Garnett had me rolling on the floor for a good minute.
Kevin Garnett just needs to cool down during a game sometimes and doesn’t care whether you’re in the crossfire. No word on where the loogie landed.
H/T: I Am a GM
Wade to LeBron for the ally-oop dunk.
These two better be careful, dunks like that could trigger another nuclear winter.
via Jose3030
It’s going to be a short season after an even shorter off-season. We had limited time to track player movement, team development and bring you in depth team analysis, like we did last year. So the bros and bro-ettes at NBAO decided we’ll follow in the footsteps of the NBA and provide you with abbreviated team previews in the best way possible, haikus.
For our first installment of NBA Haikus, we dive into the Eastern Conference’s Atlantic Division. A division that seems to be heading towards mediocrity, given the aging Celtics, the lack of depth of the Knicks, uncertainty of the Nets and the permanent stench of the Raptors.
Eastern Conference - Atlantic Division:
Boston Celtics:
A bad trade gets worse
Clippers’ pick and Green, useless
Pull the plug, Danny
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New Jersey Nets:
Must trade for Dwight
So you can resign Deron
Brooklyn here they come
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New York Knicks:
Need a center, bad
Drop point guard for a center
Need a point guard, bad
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Philadelphia Sixers:
A calm Doug Collins
Mediocrity lives here
No sun for Philly
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Toronto Raptors:
If Dwane Casey can
Make Toronto play defense
Ed Davis will shine
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Read more NBA Haikus: Atlantic Division, Central Division, Southeast Division, Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Southwest Division
Penned by the undiscovered poets of the tumblrwebs:Kristin, Douglas, Mark,Thomas, Sean, Carlos, Michael, Keith, Parker, and Shane.
Get used to this face Boston.
Rajon Rondo with an incredible ally-oop off his head.
Rondo with the headiest basketball play I’ve ever seen. This was a real heads-up play. You can even say that Rondo is one of the few point guards that still uses his head in games. Rondo… okay, I’ll stop now.
This should become a really, really, really big deal in about an hour or so. We’re talking about arguably one of the 10 greatest players in NBA history.
Thanks for everything, big guy.
Dan LeBatard goes buck for four straight minutes.
If you don’t know who LeBatard is, he’s a sports radio host from South Florida and he’s pretty funny for the most part. He had a 4-minute rant on the entire Boston/Miami series that recaps what went down better than any article or box score ever will. Enjoy.
My favorite lines from this video:
“LeBron can’t close, LeBron can’t close anything… except for Boston’s window!”
“Bin Laden was from Boston! Okay, now I’ve gone too far!”
“I’m going to give you more minutes than Dampier!”
“I still don’t know what Mike Miller’s doing out there!”
“You got Mike Bibby, You got Juwan Howard, you got Ilgauskas, the team plane is a DeLorean!”
- @Suga_Shane
“Hey Rajon. You know how you dislocated your elbow and then popped it back in? I think I just did that with my pancreas.”
(Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)
Tonight promises to be full of great playoff basketball, with Memphis/Oklahoma City and Miami/Boston. And here’s your great playoff question for the day.
Grizzlies vs. Thunder.
Heat vs. Celtics.
Three years from now, what will be the better rivalry?
