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The NBA Atlantic Division is coming off a season where all but one of its teams lost more games than in the 2008-2009 season. It's a division that has nothing going for it outside of the Boston Celtics. That's sad when one considers the history of the teams in it. Teams like the New York Knicks, Philadelphia 76ers, and New Jersey Nets are some of the more recognizable franchises to die ...

I woke up today at 7:15 AM primed and ready for Game Six of the 2010 Finals. I watched Game Five in a sports bar in Chicago and was amazed (and delighted) that everyone in the bar (besides the drunk slurring guy who approached our table, which just proves Lakers fans with few exceptions suck) was rooting for the Celtics. The first half was so ugly that my buddy Cam (a ...

With Game Six only hours away from liftoff, one question that most fans, analysts, and broadcasters have not brought about into discussion is who should be crowned the 2010 NBA Finals Most Valuable Player. Many would say that if Boston wins championship the MVP award will be handed to Rajon Rondo, and for the Lakers, if they miraculously win back-to-back games at home the award would undoubtedly go to Kobe Bryant.   Rajon ...

Many felt the Los Angeles Lakers acquisition of Ron Artest last summer only improved their championship roster. Artest was perceived by many as a significant upgrade, both defensively and offensively, over the guy he was essentially swapped for, Trevor Ariza, who landed in Houston. Five games into the NBA Finals, that myth has been debunked. Instead, Artest has been downright awful against Boston and is a major reason why the ...

After a Game 5 loss that crept the Los Angeles Lakers within one whiff of their second NBA Finals strikeout in three years, my mother made a statement that could possibly serve as a forewarning to Magic Johnson, Michael Wilbon and Jon Barry's job security in the NBA analyst arena. "You know," she said, "the Celtics are the better team." Mind you, this is coming from a person who knows as much ...

With only 10 days left until the 2010 NBA Draft, we’ve looked at who is projected where and weighed in on who we’d rather have.   Basically, we’re asking Who Ya Got?  Is it the proven performer, or the younger player with bigger upside?  Do you want a stretch four or a banger in your front court?   Here, two of our writers each took a player and made their case for ...

In a disappointing finding, scientists have come to the conclusion that what appeared to be the first documented black hole in the history of Earth, was in actuality, Ron Artest.  The black hole, which was first sighted in early November, only seemed to take place when the Lakers had the ball and appeared to be wearing a jersey with the number “37” on it. “I can’t explain it,” said Lakers superstar Kobe ...

I spent the period between the end of the NBA Conference Finals and the beginning of the Finals degrading anyone who thought the 2010 Finals would have any semblance of similarity to the 2008 Finals. In fact, degrading might be too nice of a word. I thought it was completely idiotic—so much so, that I wrote an article scoffing at the notion. There were, in my mind, only two similarities: The team ...

What's the use of a talented team, if only one player will take the challenge? Nothing. That was not the Los Angeles Lakers that had the hunger to win it all that I had seen in the beginning of the series. Game Five was basically the whole Boston team against the lone Kobe Bryant. I thought I saw Gasol and Odom smokin' outside my house while I was watching the game. Before I begin, ...

  Who would have thought that a single utterance in a movie by the most recognized Laker super-fan Jack Nicholson, "You can't handle the truth!" manifest itself in an NBA game.   Nicholson insisted in the movie "A Few Good Men" that it was his ability to do what was necessary to get the job done that kept the masses safe. Game 5 saw the Celtics determination to prove that Ron Artest could not handle "The ...