T.I. once said “I’M BACK!!” well to steal the words from one the greatest rappers in the game today… I’M BACK!!
So for my comeback I'm going to explain to you how to teach your classmates gravity works… well first tell your teacher to look out the window, then… PUSH! Out the window she goes and when she hits the ground, gravity proven. If she fly’s on a broomstick… well than, umm… she’s a W(b)itch… hint hint.
But for real I'm here to talk about the NBA season so far. Unless you have been living under a rock like Patrick you have heard by now that the NBA had a lockout and now have a shorted season; there will only be 66 games this season instead of the normal 82. What does that mean you ask? For the players, it means everything in the world. The season is so shorted that teams with have to play, travel, play, travel, and play in less than a 72 hour span. In case you’re slow that means they have to play three games in three nights all on the road.
Besides the three games in three nights they have to play 66 games in a 120+ days. Also normally when the playoffs come around, teams get a week off before having to start their playoff push… not this year. Expect to see a lot of passed out bodies on the court.
We have also seen a dramatic rise in injuries so far this season. Many big name players have been hurt this season, including all-stars like Hawks’ Al Horford (pectoral tear), Mavericks’ Dirk Nowitzki (knee), Clippers’ Chris Paul (hamstring), and Heat’s Dwayne Wade (ankle).
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| Hawks Center Al Horford is likely done for the season. |
Because of the lockout teams with a younger roster who have a core understanding have the best chance to succeed in this crazy short season. While older teams and teams adding a bunch of new players are facing an uphill fight.
The Thunder and the Bulls are in first place in each of their conferences because they are a young group of players who have played together for a while, while teams like the Celtics and Mavericks have been struggling due to being older teams with injuries and adding new players. So if you’re wondering why your team is struggling its cause they are OLD!!! No not as old as the gentlemen below but still old.
The other big story before the season started was, what will the Hornets do with Chris Paul? Paul could walk away from the Hornets at the end of the season and because no one wants to be the Cavilers and lose their superstar for nothing, Paul had to be traded, the real messy part about that happening…. The NBA owns the Hornets. Well NBA Commissioner David Stern blocked a trade to send Paul to the Lakers because small market owners who have crappy teams *cough* Cleveland Cavilers owner Dan Gilbert *cough* cried about it (just like his sworn enemy LeBron James) so less than a week later Paul was traded to the deadly cursed Clippers and he a Blake Griffin will try to turn one of the worst teams in NBA history into something good… good luck with that.
So that leads me into the third story in the NBA so far and that is what will happen with Magic center Dwight Howard. He, like Paul, wants out of Orlando even though he as flipped flopped more than a pancake about leaving or staying long term with the Magic.
The teams he has labeled as his “suitors” are the Magic, Lakers, Nets, and Mavericks. Now the only way he ends up with the Mavericks is if he signs there in the offseason. The Lakers are trying to swap Andrew Bynum for Howard but that doesn’t look likely at this point. Howard may just want to finish out this season in Orlando and then decide this offseason where he wants to go.
Now depending on what happens with Howard not only affects his future, the Magic’s future, and whatever team he goes to future but also those of Deron Williams.
Williams, like Howard, has his current team, the New Jersey (soon to be Brooklyn) Nets held hostage… even more than Howard. Unlike Howard the Nets gave up two first round picks, a high potential rookie big man and a solid point guard to get Williams and if he leaves for nothing it will leave the Nets in disarray for years.
Williams only wants to stay with the Nets if they can land a superstar to play with him a.k.a his best friend Howard a.k.a superman.
My gut tells me Williams and Howard will both end up in Brooklyn but if Howard really wants to go to New Jersey he should wait for free agency instead of making the Nets pull a New York Knicks move and give away there basically there whole roster to get Carmelo Anthony… and we all know how that’s working out for the Knicks…. Bad!!
