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For all it's worth, Brandon Roy returned. He didn't start, he wasn't himself, he lacked the touch and edge he usually possesses, and he was out of shape. But that in itself was enough to inspire the "down and out" Blazers to a game four win against the surging Suns. Coming into this game, many Blazers fans were half expecting another uninspired contest, as known as shooting practice for the Suns. Fans were ...

  For Portland Trailblazer fans like me, the 2009-10 season, started with tremendous optimism. Every season we were told to lower our expectations, that the team was too young and inexperienced to make much progress. Yet, season after season, the team added double digit totals to the win column. They made it to the playoffs last year and even won a couple games. But then the season got off to a rugged ...

The Miami Heat are staring at the near-impossible after Friday's loss to the Boston Celtics in Game Three of their first-round series.  Down 0-3 in the best of seven series, the Heat would need to make history in order to extend their season to the second round of the postseason. No NBA team has ever come back to win the series from a three-game deficit. Based on what Miami has shown ...

Guess who's back? Yeah, that's right Blazers fans, Brandon Roy is back on the court playing basketball just eight days after having surgery on his knee. Not only did Roy make his return, but the Trail Blazers returned to playing playoff basketball after appearing to take Game Two and Game Three off. Portland needed a spark to get back into this series and they got just that as Roy made a surprising return ...

I’ve always loved Scott Brooks, or as my brothers and friends used to call him growing up in Houston: Scottie Brooks. And now I have even more of a reason to love Scottie, as coach Brooks aims to lead his Oklahoma City Thunder to a round one upset of Kobe Bryant and the overrated, highly-egotistical LA Lakers. Thankfully, the Thunder stole game three from the Lakers as Brooks and Oklahoma City have ...

The Western Conference first-round matchup between the Dallas Mavericks and San Antonio Spurs might be the most even "two vs. seven" pairing in NBA history. Both teams have been a part of the playoff scene since the turn of the century and usually find themselves meeting each other in the Conference Semifinals and Finals. With the two teams separated by a mere five wins, it makes even harder to believe that ...

Game three is supposed to be the hardest game to win because it is the first game on an opponent’s home court. The home team is determined to protect what is theirs and the opponent better beware.  All this would be true if Dwyane Wade had help. The Boston Celtics have decided that they don't care if Wade scores 40 points no other Heat player will be able to sniff the other side ...

Lamar Odom is without question the most valuable member of the Los Angeles Lakers' reserves and one of the most versatile players in the NBA, but there are two other players on the Lakers' bench who are capable of having a positive postseason impact. Jordan Farmar and Shannon Brown have the potential to be important pieces in the Lakers' quest for a repeat, but so far their inconsistency has mirrored the ...

If the Los Angeles Lakers want to solve the dilemma that is the Oklahoma City Thunder, there is a simple recipe for success, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. The Lakers have been their best when the team made a concerted effort to feed Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol the ball in the post, allowing the two players to take advantage of their considerable height against ...

SAN ANTONIO: Antonio McDyess had every reason to hate the San Antonio Spurs. Not in the half-superficial way Mark Cuban says he does. His first encounter with Tim Duncan involved the Spurs' great torching him seven straight times in a playoff game. He was one quarter away from the championship celebration he craved in a Game Seven, when Duncan and Manu Ginobili took over that 2005 winner-take-all match. Through the years, though, he saw how the Spurs operated. He ...