Posts Tagged NBA
Mavs Can Take 2 of 3 At Home
The Dallas Mavericks won by the skin of their teeth in Game 2, thanks to Dirk Nowitzki’s left-handed stretched lay up over the Miami Heat defense.
With the Finals series now tied at one apiece, it is interesting to see how the Heat would make their adjustment especially since the next three games will shift to [...]
The Sting That Could Wake Up The Lakers
A lot has been said about the Los Angeles Lakers’ stunning 103-109 Game One Western Conference first round loss to the seventh-seeded New Orleans Hornets on Monday (Sunday night in the United States).
Pau Gasol was a non-factor in the Lakers’ series-opener, scoring a quiet eight points and hardly making any dent on the defensive end.
On [...]
Lakers-Spurs Collision In The West?
Less than 20 games to go before the end of the 2011 NBA regular season.
And it looks like the West, now minus Amare Stoudemire, Carlos Boozer, Deron Williams and Carmelo Anthony appear more like a playoff-ending Western Conference showdown between the reigning champions Los Angeles Lakers and the veteran squad San Antonio Spurs.
The Lakers (46-19), [...]
2011 Edition NU Bulldogs Barking Loud
It seemed only yesterday when my brothers and I were watching then PBA import Bobby Parks and idolizing local talents like Allan Caidic, Vergel Meneses, Bong Ravena and a host of others strut their stuff in the country’s oldest professional cage league.
Parks, a 6′3″ resident import of the now disbanded Shell franchise, was a seven-time [...]
IronMan In The Faith
Posted by Rich in Changed Lives, Sports on December 16th, 2010
Portland guard Andre Miller’s league-high streak of 632 consecutive games played ended abruptly when he was suspended for a game against Phoenix, leaving Los Angeles Lakers guard Derek Fisher - 435 consecutive games as of yesterday (Dec. 15) – as the league’s reigning ironman.
Ironman is an apt word to describe an athlete who has played with the most [...]