Michael Jordan had the third pick in the 2006 NBA draft. Air Jordan picked Adam Morrison for the Charlotte Bobcats. As the third pick, only Andrea Bargnani and LaMarcus Aldridge was ahead of Adam Morrison. Many future NBA stars followed… Brandon Roy, Rudy Gay, Rajon Rondo, Shannon Brown, Jordan Farmer, Daniel [...]
There is an old sports adage - “what have you done lately?“. In the case of Trevor Ariza, the answer would be very simple - “help win a NBA Championship just a few weeks ago“. The appreciation for that effort is that essentially the L.A. Lakers and the Houston Rockets swapped players. [...]
Less than twenty four hours after the L.A. Lakers popped the champagne to celebrate their NBA championship, there is consideration of free agency and who will be back next year. Hedo Turkoglu has the option of becoming a free agent and his agent is already speaking of Orlando in the past tense:
“”I [...]
Game Four of the NBA championship series was a 99-91 victory for the L.A. Lakers over the Orlando Magic. It may have been one of Coach Phil Jackson’s finest moments in managing a game - and a series. Phil Jackson showed faith and trust in his players… and he was rewarded with [...]
Imagine that ever since you were a young teenager you were a better basketball player than your peers - and many kids older than yourself. You are a basketball prodigy in high school. People keep telling you how good you are. The professionals risk a draft pick to select you out of [...]
There are singular moments that give a glimpse beyond the public persona of a player. Game Three was high drama. If the Orlando Magic had lost the game, it would have continued a finals losing streak to seven games. It would have put them three games behind the L.A. Lakers, with almost [...]
Orlando Magic basketball fans are waiting for their team’s first NBA Finals win. It will be the first one… ever. The Orlando Magic have been the championship series previously. On that one occasion, it was a four game sweep by the Houston Rockets. So, it has been a long long [...]
It is a rare opportunity for any athlete to compete for a professional sports championship. The L.A. Lakers earned that opportunity for a second year in a row with a Game Six victory over the Denver Nuggets. Game Six in June of 2008 was Celtics 131 - Lakers 92. That was the [...]
The spectre of Shaquille O’Neal looms over the Los Angeles Lakers. It probably will for many years. It is still a recent memory for many current Lakers fans. For example, they can recall Shaquille O’Neal grabbing offensive rebounds, being battered by defenders and powering up for a slam dunks to clean up [...]
Usually, Kobe Bryant can score six field goals in a half. Sometimes, it is that many and more in a quarter. In Game Five, the Denver Nuggets contained Kobe Bryant for just six field goals and a total of twenty two points. Fortunately, for the L.A. Lakers, there was support and scoring [...]
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