TOP TEAMS STUMBLE EARLY

For the Los Angeles Lakers and Cleveland Cavaliers, high hopes turned to disappointments pretty darned quickly. Read more

IVERSON’S FINAL STOP?

Allen Iverson is nearing the twilight of his sometimes brilliant, sometimes temperamental, always entertaining, NBA career. Read more

NBA ROUNDUP: 6/13 - 6/20

The NBA season may be over with the Los Angeles Lakers crowned as the 2009 NBA champions, but teams are working hard to build a team to dethrone the champs come next year. It will be an interesting offseason to see where key players like Hedo Turkoglo and Allen Iverson end up. Read more

ARIZA, ODOM VIE FOR TITLE, CONTRACTS

The Los Angeles Lakers edged out the Orlando Magic in an overtime thriller on Sunday. The biggest deciding factor: the tandem of Lamar Odom and Trevor Ariza. Read more

MAJESTIC KOBE “WHERE CRUNCH TIME HAPPENS” T-SHIRT

The NBA Finals are here and it’s time to show some love for your team. The NBA Store has some nice shirts of your favorite players, including this one of Kobe Bryant playing off their tagline of “Where Amazing Happens.” The Kobe “Where Crunch Time Happens” shirt is perfect to wear while you are watching the Finals and cheering for the Lake Show.

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NEW YORKERS REJOICE

There are a boatload of people bemoaning the lack of a Kobe Bryant-LeBron James match-up in the NBA Finals: the citizens of Cleveland, basketball fans, LeBron worshipers, and even David Stern. Outside of Orlando, there’s one city toasting the downfall of the King: New York. Read more

NUGGETS BRING CHANGE OF PACE

While everyone assumes the Los Angeles Lakers will roll through the Western Conference, it’s been the Denver Nuggets that have dominated their playoff match-ups. A meeting between the two could be closer, and more entertaining, than most people expect. Read more

NBA ROUNDUP: 5/2 - 5/8

The Houston Rockets proved to the Los Angeles Lakers that they should not be taken lightly after winning the first game of the series with hard-nosed defense and significant contributions from Yao Ming and Ron Artest. On the flip side, the Cleveland Cavaliers look to have an easy road to the Finals as they blew out the Atlanta Hawks in Game 1 and 2 in convincing fashion. Read more

LAKERS LOCKED UP?

So everyone assumes the Los Angeles Lakers and the Cleveland Cavaliers are on a collision course for the Finals. But unlike popular opinion, it’s not going to be a cakewalk for either team. Both have shown they are vulnerable to certain match-ups, despite what their dominating records may suggest. Yesterday, we looked at the Cavs. Here’s a look at the match-up problem the Lake Show faces: Read more

TOP NBA GAMES: 3/9 - 3/15

Shaq is feuding with an ex-coach and an All-Star caliber ex-teammate. Sound familiar? In Orlando, it was coach Brian Hill and Penny Hardaway. With the Lakers, it was Phil Jackson and Kobe Bryant. This past week, Shaq exchanged words with former Miami Heat coach Stan Van Gundy and former wingman Dwayne Wade.

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KOBE HAS A BIGGER QUEST TO WIN CHAMPIONSHIP RING

Kobe Bryant displayed another magnificent performance as he scorched the New York Knicks for 61 points. However, the bigger question that remains is whether Kobe can win a championship as the main guy. Last year, he came two games shy against the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals. With Andrew Bynum out yet again with a knee injury, the question remains if the Lakers can do it this season. According to J.A. Adande of ESPN, Kobe’s biggest enemy right now is time. If Kobe can win a championship this season, it’s going to be a huge monkey off his shoulder and he can write his name in the history books as one of the greatest ever.

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BYNUM OUT FOR 8-12 WEEKS

Los Angeles Center Andrew Bynum is out again with another knee injury. Bynum will miss approximately eight to 12 weeks because of a torn medial collateral ligament in his right knee and might not appear until playoff time. This is bad news for the Los Angeles Lakers who desperately needed him in the NBA Finais last year where they were physically outplayed by the Boston Celtics.

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