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We are witnessing greatness right now, we are witnessing a legend in the making We are witnessing the phenomenon LeBron James and we need to appreciate it. He is the best player in the league today and is a freak of nature that can't be stopped. He is a triple double machine and can do whatever he wants in his sleep. He is strong, fast, quick, he can jump high, ...

The Dallas Mavericks might have seemed to have a chance heading into game six of their first-round series against the San Antonio Spurs. Any hopes that developed during the Mavs' strong performance in game five were swiftly crushed during a first quarter that saw Dallas score a measly eight points. That abysmal showing in the first quarter in San Antonio was a prime example of the kind of disappointment that has been ...

  Steve Nash and the Phoenix Suns must be popping Tums like candy with the indigestion they likely have after advancing to the Western Conference Semifinals. A mere two weeks ago, it seemed everything was lining up for the Phoenix Suns to be able to fast-break their way to the conference finals to face the Lakers. After all, their toughest opponent before then looked to be the Dallas Mavericks. The Portland Trailblazers? ...

Boom! A sudden bolt of lightning struck the Quicken Loans Arena last Tuesday, as the Cleveland Cavaliers hosted the Chicago Bulls in the Quarterfinals of the Eastern Conference Playoffs. The crowd however, was not shocked by this sudden, abrupt occurrence, because the immediate energy came in the form of the eccentric-haired center Anderson Varejao. The same thing occurred miles away and a mile higher in Denver as Chris (Birdman) Andersen ...

The First Round is always exciting because of the large number of teams involved, the usual presence of an entertaining underdog or two, and the chance to finally move out of the regular season and into Playoff basketball. The Second Round is where things get a lot more serious, however. The fact remains that the upstarts rarely do end up moving on past a higher seed, (sorry, Thunder and, potentially, ...

We have reached that odd time in the NBA Playoffs where the rounds are overlapping. Cleveland and Boston meet in Game One of the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals on May 1st, while the Bucks and Hawks play Game Seven of the First Round on May 2nd. It is like the First Round of the NBA Playoffs just don't want to end. Even with players like Joe Johnson, Josh Smith and Brandon Jennings, ...

Quite honestly, I'm sick of hearing that the Cavaliers are undoubtedly the best team in the NBA and have the best chances of winning the NBA championship. For starters, the Orlando Magic are the reigning Eastern Conference Champions. So if any team has the greatest chance of making it back to the NBA Finals, it's indeed Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic. Focusing on the second round of the playoffs and more ...

For some strange reason, Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan elected to leave star point guard Deron Williams on the floor in the closing seconds of the Jazz's close-out win over the Denver Nuggets, and he may have paid a price for it. Williams ran into a hard screen set by Denver's Chris Andersen and appeared to injure his left shoulder in the process, a development which could have grave ...

Some have said that the Internet is one of the greatest contributions to society in the past century. Sometimes I worry that the Internet, for all the advantages it has given us, does more to reveal our skewed priorities rather than advance us. Most mornings I visit a common news site. I usually visit CNN because from there I can link directly to SI.com. CNN usually has a column to the ...

Maybe now that both the Denver Nuggets and Dallas Mavericks have been eliminated from the 2010 NBA postseason we can start discussing their ill-fated playoff journeys with a little bit of realism. It was widely assumed the Nuggets and Mavericks existed in the rare air of NBA title contenders, but their respective first-round losses revealed them to be pretenders of the highest magnitude. For instance, the Mavericks were exposed by the San ...