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What You Should Know From Pre-Season

What You Should Know From Pre-Season

1) Don’t watch it

2) Don’t base your Regular Season predictions off of it

  I did the first one.

I’m going to do the second one.

Kobe has zero fcks to give

  Which is a good thing honestly. The Lakers aren’t a team heading in any direction. A perfect environment for Kobe to shoot himself into basketball history. If you haven’t seen a Laker game by now, I’ll tell you this. Kobe Bryant will be the…

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Admired Once Retired

Five rings, Finals MVP, All-Star, member of  the most successful sports teams of your generation. Tony Parker is a living basketball Legend who’s only 32 years old. But no one seems to talk about him that way. Until he’s in the NBA Finals again, then the media gives him a day worth of coverage. Time to change that.

  Every Spurs guy should get an asterisk next to their stats saying they put team…

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Kobe - A Working Title

Kobe – A Working Title

Lost in a search for a title, I realized my painful brain search was fitting to the enigma ‘Kobe Bryant’. I was thinking ‘A Fitting End To A Legend’, ‘American Psycho’, ‘The Good, The Bad & The Ugly’ and so on… Truth is, throughout his illustrious career, we’ve seen so many sides of Bryant, it’s hard to punch out one title that sums it up.

After shooting 8 airballs vs Utah, Shaq says some…

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NBA Season Preview '13-'14 Part Two: Validation, Redeeming & Repeating

Searching for Validation

After their cinderella trip through the 2013 NBA Play-Offs, the Golden…

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NBA Season Preview '13-'14 Part One: Rocketships & Chubbies

I had my doubts wriiting during the NBA Off-Season. But everything you hear during the Off-Season…

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yosemite part 2 & 3

zoals beloofd een update van dag 2 en 3 in yosemite national park. na een leuke nacht in tent 90`s met bijhorende drankspelltetjes is het tijd om eens uitnte slapen. rond 9u wordt iedereen rustig wakker p, behalve jean die wederom verkleumd van de kou om…

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NBA Memoires: "Goodbye To My Heroes"

It al started with Shaq,

An athlete, an actor, a rapper, a physical specimen, larger than life who enjoyed life like a little kid.

Than I found someone to mimic my game after, Allen Iverson.

A big hearted warrior with average height, who dominated amongst…

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The NBA Hypothetical Play-Offs

It’s been a while since my last post. I know, I’m sorry, but I’m poor and I’m not so sure if my…

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What Happened To: Ep.3 Kareem Rush

You don’t know Kareem Rush? Ask a Minnesota Timberwolves fan!

In the ’03-’04 season, the Lakers…

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Crippled NBA Playoffs Provide Hollywood Storylines

Arriving late to the blogging play-off party, I know.

I can’t get past the fact the NBA Play-Offs…

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Handing Out Hardware: Nickels 4 Dimes-style

The regular season has ended, so as a blogger, I’m obliged to give you my opinion who wins what.…

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What Happened To: Ep.2 Michael Beasley

After signing a lucrative deal in Phoenix and a promised starting role, it seemed Michael Beasley…

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Dirk or Kobe?

The NBA Play-Offs are inching closer and as always, storylines are unfolding in the Wild West. What…

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Started From The Bottom... Now I'm Back

NBA players! A lot of them have to overcome poverty and a lifestyle based on a minimum of luxury.…

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9 Ways To Improve The NBA

I love basketball. I love the NBA. I think NBA players are the world’s greatest athletes. But the NBA still has room to improve. These are my suggestions to make the NBA a better and more appealing league.

1. Blocking/Charge Call

They should ban the…

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NBA Memoires: "Bryant...to Shaq!"

After I missed out on the historic Slam Dunk Contest in February, I started to watch NBA games on…

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Chris Bosh: Boss of the Videobomb

Did you know the Miami Heat have a big three? Like Lebron, Wade and another superstar. Did you know…

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