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Houston Rockets fans, get ready to brace yourselves for another NBA draft. General manager Daryl Morey has brought an unpredictable personality to past year's drafts and this should be no different. The man likes to make trades and will often pick talent over need. He has made wise decisions in both the first and second rounds since joining the team in 2007. This year's draft has a bevy of possibilities, despite the fact ...

It's back to the drawing board for the Philadelphia 76ers. After consecutive playoff appearances for the first time since 2003, Philadelphia slipped back to a dismal 27-55 record in 2009-2010. When the new season begins at the end of this year, the 76ers will have a new coach and a new strategy as they tries to find a solution to its on-court woes. This transition will begin on June 24, where the Sixers ...

This year, LeBron James submitted a request to switch numbers from 23 to 6. He did it quietly, hours before the deadline approached. The question is, why isn't anyone talking about this? Personally, I see some major foreshadowing. For one, why this year? He has wore #23 ever since he arrived in the league. However, all of the sudden he decides to switch numbers to honor MJ? Maybe he switched numbers ...

Picture this scenario. The Chicago Bulls get LeBron James to sign with them in early July. They've just hit the jackpot of NBA free agency! But come on. You really think LeBron will be happy just playing with Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah? Yeah right. The Bulls should get Chris Bosh too. That would fill the need at power forward and give Chicago the true low-post option they've been missing all these years. Yet there's still that nagging ...

With the 2010 NBA Playoffs finally coming to a close, basketball fans enter into a period of vast speculation, transaction and discussion. For any keen hoops fan this week is NBA Draft Week, and what will follow come July 1 will be arguably the greatest free-agent signing period in NBA History. While there will be no live games to watch, fans of the NBA will be tuning in to listen ...

Kobe Bryant has five NBA championships, a league MVP and is widely regarded as the best closer basketball in crunch time. In the minds of many fans, analysts and observers, Bryant still lacks something that prevents him from surpassing or coming close to the throne of Michael Jordan. It's not statistical achievements, additional titles or even a burning desire to win at all costs. It is those indelible moments in the postseason ...

Now that Kobe Bryant has won his fifth NBA Championship, we can finally discuss the issue that many have been reluctant to address in the past... Is Bryant on par with Robert Horry? Let's break it down, shall we?   Total NBA Titles Kobe still trails in this category, having won five titles to Horry's seven.  Kobe still has a chance to equal Horry, but he is getting up there in years.  A lot ...

Now that the NBA Finals have finished, it's time for the real fun to begin. Right now people seem to be complaining about how they just want the free agency period to be over, so we can all move on knowing who is playing for who. Not me, I can't get enough of this stuff. This is a historic time for the league. The balance of power in the NBA could be totally ...

This time one year ago, many draft pundits were deploring the weakness of the 2009 NBA Draft. I was among them. Despite my man crush on Ricky Rubio, I thought the 2009 Draft was full of maybes and that there were no sure things at the top of the draft. In my 2009 Draft Guide, I found myself looking ahead to the 2010 Draft more than concentrating on the draft at hand. One ...

The NBA Draft is this week and final plans and decisions are being made. Among those decision are draft day trades. Inevitably, teams will pull the trigger on deals that will help them move up the board, swap picks, or land NBA proven talent. As we have seen in recent years, teams and general managers will not shy away from pulling the trigger while picks come off the board. ...