The Lakers are slogging through long practices in a long preseason. To give you some interesting reading options, Bloggers from around the NBA are previewing their teams, and recently it was the guys in the Southwest Division (look for my formal Laker preview close to the end of the month). Dallas Mavericks Mavs Moneyball Houston […]
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Know Your Enemy: The Boston Celtics
Last Year Record: 66-16 Last Year Playoffs: Won NBA Championship Offensive Rating: 110.2 (ninth in league) Defensive Rating: 98.9 (first in league) The rivalry with the Celtics is back. All the way back. I grew up despising all things Celtics (you had to respect Bird/McHale/Parish, but you didn’t have to like them, and I’ve always […]
Training Camp Opens
Baseball training camps seem to get all the love, with their ties to spring and a feeling of rebirth. But for basketball and NBA fans, today is our day of spring, it’s just that the crack of bats is replaced with sneakers squeaking on hardwood. But the underlying tenets are the same: Today there is […]
Know Your Enemy: The New Orleans Hornets
This is the first in a series here at FB&G that will run through the start of the season, focusing on some of the top teams in the West and maybe a couple from the East. We start with a team that many think will take a step forward next year, the New Orleans Hornets. […]
Team USA, Free Agency, and Other Stuff…
Some quick hit notes about what’s going on recently in the Olympics and the NBA in general… *Team USA ran away with it’s third consecutive game with a 92-69 bashing of Greece. From the recap, this was obviously a meaningful game for the Americans. Out of all the recent failings of Team USA in international […]
Talking Points
After an exciting but disappointing weekend (outside of getting to spend time with Mom) it seems like a good day to take a step back from the analysis and just talk about a couple of interesting issues around the Association. One came in an email from Mike, a regular reader of this site, but he’s […]
Breaking Down Game Two
First off, you can catch some of my thoughts on the series at the Hoops Addict podcast that just went up (also on there was a preview from the boys at My Utah Jazz). As a preview, Ryan asked if the Lakers could win a title without Bynum, I said I think this series is […]
Paying My Debt
As was mentioned yesterday, with the Blazers win I had to write a “why we should fear the Blazers in the coming years” post for the Blazers Edge. Here it is.
NBA Blogger Previews: The Southeast
Here’s the latest round of NBA blogger previews. Sunday, my Lakers preview for this series will go up. Washington Wizards Bullets Forever Orlando Magic Believing In Magic Third Quarter Collapse Miami Heat I Want to be a Sports Agent Crazy From The Heat Atlanta Hawks Impending Firestorm Atlanta Hawks Blog Charlotte Bobcats Bobcat Bonfire Archives […]
NBA Bloggers Previews: The Northwest
Now the previews are up for the NBA bloggers who covered what is the up-and-coming division of the NBA, the Northwest. Utah Jazz Daily Basketball Taking it to the Rack Basketball John Seattle Supersonics Sonics Central Portland Trail Blazers TrueHoop The Inferno Timberwolves TWolves Blog Denver Nuggets Nugg Doctor