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Hey, im rooting for the knicks here after the miserable display of basketball that has gone on for several years. The NBA needs the knicks. Adding Amar'e was great. Felton is a good pick up as well. Losing Lee may balance out because they did get some decent pieces back. Their drafts have been questionable at best. Jordan Hill, an early first rounder was traded before he hit the 10 month mark. And now, Rautins..He will hit an open three here and there, but you gotta go for the homerun in the 2nd round if your the knicks. The other kid from standford, forgot his name, but there is no way he ends up having any impact. The best thing the Knicks did this summer was not panic. They could have went out and easily overpaid someone like John Salmons to try to save face. Finally some patience in NY. Bringing Isiah back, is an interesting move to say the least. Im pulling for the knicks, you gotta be happy that they didnt do anything stupid. The will be mediocre next year, but seem to be the front runners for Melo. Imagine if they land CP3 as well. How great is that for the NBA. Melo, Amar'e, CP3 v Wade, LBJ and BOsh

You can't tell me Andy Rautins was a good pick. In the 2nd round, its a crap shoot.You gotta take longshots. They should have gone with the kid from U of Cincy, Stephenson, plus he's an NY kid.

I wish we could take credit for it, but it's something we found. Only half of it actually plays on the site, the full video is on youtube. It's beyond hilarious

There had to be a big loser in this summer's epic free agent scenario, and the Nets were it. If there is anyone who loathes his/her profession more outside of Byron Scott in the NBA, it's any person who runs the Net's P.R. campaign. How can someone generate excitement for the upcoming season? "Hey fans come out and see our big-time free agent pickup; Jordan Farmar!" To fill the seats Jay-Z will have to perform at every halftime with Dracula (Mikhail Prokhorov) as his hype-man. The Nets are young team and they did draft well, but it seems that they will remain irrelevant in the NBA standings for several more years. http://nbablogjob.blogspot.com/

With a Miami Heat practice looking more like the set from the upcoming movie "The Expendables," (it's so natural to draw the parallel) it is easy to say the Heat hit a grand slam in thus summer's free agent bonanza. Critics want to shoot down these monumental acquisitions on the grounds of bad chemistry, but here's an analogy: Say you left the the U.S. for a remote island with no connection to the outside world right after the Heat were put out 4-2 in the Eastern Conference Playoffs by the Boston Celtics. Your conclusion would be "Man, if D-Wade could get just a little help the Heat would be so much better." On your return from the island, you see that the Heat have brought in LBJ, Bosh, and Mike Miller, and your unbiased first instinct would be to say "Well I know where the Larry O'Brian trophy is going to be for the next 6 years." Anyone who pretends that this team won't be great at some point should be clinically declared a psychopath. This is either going to be the greatest NBA team of all time or the most gut wrenching, money down the drain, crushing, miserable, and apocalyptic disappointment in the history of sports. It is a matter of time until Pat Riley tells Spoelstra to scoot down one seat on the bench. Spoelstra has 2 years maximum to win a championship, until the hair-gelled legend takes over. It is going to be very interesting to watch.. http://nbablogjob.blogspot.com/

totally do-able.

It's not like our posts are irrelevant. Yes we are promoting the blog, but we are also contributing to the forum. All of our posts have started conversations and debates.

17 others at: http://nbablogjob.blogspot.com/ Shaquille O'Neal: Unique Never before have we seen a player like this, on and off the court. Shaq is probably the most charismatic player in NBA history. Who could forget the brilliant cinematography in "Kazaam?"Shaq has been a marketing dream and a front court nightmare. The NBA simply did not have an answer for him for a solid decade. He was the most dominant big man, if not player, in his prime that I have ever seen. Wilt has a similar status, and Dwight Howard wishes he did Darko Milicic: The Challenger The Challenger, as in the space ship that blew up. Poor Darko had to go pro the same year as Lebron James and the superstars the Pistons picked him over...Melo, Bosh, and D Wade in case anyone has forgotten. However, our sympathy for Darko is limited, as he just signed a $20 million contract, so he has been well-paid fodder for jokes on the Pistons 2003 draft and draft busts everywhere.

Hard to say whether he'd run the point or not. Either way, the offense would run through him. He'd still be fantastic. His style of play is relevent in every NBA generation.

full article here: http://nbablogjob.blogspot.com/ Nobody is enjoying the current wave of attention flowing from South Beach all the way to Bristol, Connecticut more than Kobe Bryant. Two rings without Shaq, five in total, yet he is getting as much attention this summer post NBA finals as DJ Mbenga. During the hoopla surrounding the recruiting visits, the summit in Miami, and the endless coverage on “The Decision,” you know Kobe was viewing from the side with a smug grin on his face, as he found more and more motivation to refine his game and to tweak his rat-like scowl to produce a maximum under bite. Finally, he is getting time to heal his knee and finger, and will be fully healthy come late October, a scary prospect for the rest of the NBA. Let’s look at the upper seeds in each conference to see who has a shot at challenging the Lakers:

I hear ya man, the article was written for the sake of debate. Who would really win? probably the Bulls. I just wanted to put the Lakers in context, because they really are one of the most talented teams ever put together. There size would give the Bulls alot of trouble. enought to win? probably not. However, watch the 2011 Lakers. Just added Barnes, Blake and Ratliff. The defending champion just bolstered their size, 3p shooting and depth.. The full debate here: http://nbablogjob.blogspot.com/

Why does it have to be termed a "collapse," why not say the Lakers came back and took it away? Boston's team was better than any team the the Bulls beat in 1996. The level of dominance is remarkable, but still you must factor in the amount of relevant teams in the league. The NBA is much much better now. I honesty thnk the best team in NBA history may be Magic's showtime Lakers. In realitty I think we all know that the 96 Bulls are better than the 2010 Lakers. I wrote that article for the sake of the argument. Now if the Lakers go to beat the Miami Heat next year...this argument is not as definitive..

We never said Artest was better than Pippen. Not once. Yes the Bulls dominated, but they dominiated a polarized league. Outside of Rodman, the Bulls had 0 answer for the Laker front court.

Before this article gets started, let’s get one thing straight: Kobe Bryant is not better than Michael Jordan, and never will be. Even if Kobe goes on to win two more rings giving him seven, one more than MJ, he still falls short in comparison. There will never be another Michael Jordan. The legacy he left will never be matched and it may be taboo to even compare with another player’s. Winning was not enough, he had to bury his competition. Do not let Kobe’s glare/under bite growl fool you, it is a front, and an attempt by Kobe to patent a facial expression like MJ’s tongue wag. Let us please squash this debate before some people begin to take it seriously. Kobe is not better than MJ, however, his Lakers may just be better than Jordan’s Bulls. The rest at: http://nbablogjob.blogspot.com/

Yeah, it was pretty much inevitable