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James Harden and Jeremy Lin have transformed the Houston Rockets into a playoff contender. A couple years from now. Despite an impressive three game stretch that has seen the Rockets go 2-1, Harden average 35.3 points and Lin dish out 7.3 helpers, Houston is not playoff-bound. Not this year. I love a lot of the [...]

The Los Angeles Lakers have started the season at a stumbling pace. It should be mentioned that the Princeton offense didn’t look so bad at first. unfortunately, “at first” was limited to just over half of a quarter. On their home opener against the Mavericks, the Lakers started the game off by putting Dallas in [...]

After being easily discarded from the 2012 NBA Playoffs less than 6 months ago by the Heat, this year’s New York Knicks squad made sure to send a message on their opening night over the defending NBA Champions that they not only belong on the same floor, but could be one of Miami’s biggest challengers [...]

The Cleveland Cavaliers opened their 2012-2013 season with some good news: their 2nd year point guard, and best player, was going to be able to start the game. Though Irving’s status wasn’t quite in question, it was nice to see him healthy after an off season where the 2nd year guard broke his hand and [...]

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The Miami Heat received their NBA championship rings tonight in their season opener at home against the Boston Celtics. The 14k white gold rings had the words “All In” on one side, and “Family” on the other. The classy ceremony (video after the jump) centered around this nice little piece of jewelry: Video of the [...]

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Spurs Nation reported yesterday that Spurs shooting guard Manu Ginobili will not be traveling with the team for the season opener. Evidently, Ginobili’s back is still bothering him. According to head coach Gregg Popovich, Ginobili tried to take the court for one practice before the season started and “couldn’t do it.” The Spurs saw Ginobili [...]

The National Basketball Association can be a very opportunistic place. Occasionally, things may go your way, or “fall in your lap”, and you must simply seize and capitalize on this. From the very moment James Harden was drafted 3rd overall by the Oklahoma City Thunder in the 2009 NBA draft, he has done just that. [...]

No one saw it coming. Not the Oklahoma City Thunder, not the Houston Rockets, not David Stern himself. And yet, here we are. As Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports first reported, the Rockets and Thunder came to terms on a blockbuster deal that landed All-Star guard James Harden in Houston and volume scoring guard Kevin [...]