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Sports Central April 11, 2011 Vito Curcuru |
Three NBA Playoff Predictions The NBA playoffs have begun and this year the race to the finals looks more open than usual. Teams like the Bulls, Lakers, Spurs, Heat, and Magic all look like the favorites to reach the Finals. |
Sports Central June 2, 2008 Brian Cox |
All Things Old Become New Again For the 11th time in league history, the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers will square off for the NBA title. |
Sports Central June 9, 2010 Paul Foeller |
NBA Finals: Keys to Victory How great is the Lakers/Celtics rivalry? After the Finals end this year, the two teams will have combined to win more than half of the championships in NBA history. |
Sports Central June 5, 2008 Corrie Trouw |
Scouting the NBA Finals An analysis of the NBA Finals matchup between the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics. |
Sports Central October 12, 2010 Bob Ekstrom |
NBA East Will Be Battle of Big Threes NBA general managers got a bit ahead of themselves last week when they penciled in the Los Angeles Lakers for a three-peat, but they did nail half the NBA Finals matchup in the process. |
Sports Central June 18, 2007 Brad Oremland |
Are the Spurs a Dynasty? To help answer that question, here's a look at the NBA's most dynastic teams ever. |
Sports Central December 12, 2008 Bill Hazell |
The Green-and-Golden Age Renaissance Green vs. Yellow means a lot to us NBA nuts, and in a league where upsets don't come often, the chances of another Celtics/Lakers Finals in 2009 seem bright. |
Sports Central June 4, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
NBA Finals: Easy as ABC There is so much that goes into winning an NBA title. It isn't as simple as just X's and O's. In fact, X and O are just two of the 26 letters that you must conquer to win a title. |
Sports Central June 1, 2010 Bob Ekstrom |
Can L.A. and Boston Just Get a Room Already? Welcome to senior prom, NBA style. |
Sports Central January 30, 2013 Bob Ekstrom |
Rondo Injury Forces Decisions on Future Rajon Rondo's season-ending ACL tear last Friday in Atlanta has the Boston Celtics' front office on the proverbial horns of a dilemma. Does GM Danny Ainge consider this the death knell for a season that already had one foot in the grave? |
Sports Central May 6, 2009 Jonathan Lowe |
Shuffling the Deck? Last season, the NBA had its dream Finals matchup return to the spotlight when the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers came together for the first time since 1987. |
Sports Central April 18, 2011 Bob Ekstrom |
Once Again, the West Proves Wild The NBA postseason that got underway Saturday didn't exactly pick up where the regular season ended. |
AskMen.com Paul Bessire |
Top 10: NBA Champions In this article, WhatIfSports utilizes its SimMatchup technology to rank the greatest NBA champions of all time. |
Sports Central June 7, 2010 Jonathan Lowe |
NBA Finals: Making Sense of it All Everyone was excited to see a rematch of the 2008 championship round between the Celtics and Lakers. |
Sports Central July 8, 2014 Brad Oremland |
If They Were All in Their Primes... Who would be the best NBA team of all-time ... if everyone on the team was in his prime? Here are 12 contenders. |
Sports Central June 14, 2010 Bill Hazell |
Celtics/Lakers, on to the Final Act For the first time in four years, no one has a clue who's winning this thing. What could be better? |
Sports Central May 16, 2011 Vito Curcuru |
Keys to the NBA Conference Finals The 2011 NBA conference finals are underway and this final four gives us youth, age, and plenty of superstar power. |
Sports Central May 30, 2010 Ross Lancaster |
Celtic Surprise? Not Really The Celtics' run to the NBA Finals has not been typical of a conference champion. |
Sports Central June 11, 2008 Jonathan Lowe |
Boy, They Sure Grow Up Fast There's a certain "je ne sais quoi" to the Lakers -- and a lot of "I dunno" with the Celtics. |
Sports Central May 23, 2010 Vito Curcuru |
Things We've Learned From the NBA Playoffs The NBA playoffs are usually generous when it comes to player meltdowns, tearing up age-old adages, and having certain teams rise to the top. |
Sports Central June 13, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
NBA Finals Game 4: All Apologies As much as I've tried to talk myself into the Celtics being overrated, it's all but a foregone conclusion. The Celtics are going to be the 2008 NBA champions. |
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov |
Top 10: NBA Finals Matchups Before the page is turned on this magical 2007 season, let's flip back in history and relive the top 10 NBA Finals matchups. |
Sports Central June 29, 2009 Sean Crowe |
The NBA Finals Left Me Feeling Empty The NBA Gods righted themselves after the 1985-86 season by giving us the Lakers/Celtics rematch we deserved. Here's the hoping the NBA Gods do the same thing next season. |
Sports Central November 15, 2010 Bob Ekstrom |
The NBA's Empire Mentality Each should look at himself in the mirror for his part in proliferating this empire mentality that exists in pro basketball, but as fans we too should look at ourselves for embracing it. |
Sports Central February 19, 2008 Wailele Sallas |
West Coast Biased The idea that the East was back on the rise has diminished. |
Sports Central February 5, 2007 Bob Ekstrom |
Boston's Never-Ending Youth Movement The Celtics roster has been among the youngest in the NBA over the last three years. All this youth breeds mistakes, which in turn begets chronic losing. |
Sports Central April 18, 2009 Bill Hazell |
The Big Finals Ticket The fate of the NBA's Eastern Conference playoffs has come down to one simple question: how's the knee, Mr. Garnett? |
Sports Central June 16, 2008 Wailele Sallas |
L.A. Mystery Kobe Bryant has yet to figure out the one thing Michael Jordan deciphered in his first trip to the Finals: when you'll do everything to win, sometimes it means not doing everything. |
Sports Central April 5, 2010 Vito Curcuru |
Why Kobe is Better Than LeBron If you had to bet the mortgage on who will win this year's NBA Finals, is it the Kobe Bryant-led Los Angeles Lakers or the Cleveland Cavaliers with LeBron James? |
Sports Central May 3, 2012 Gary Flick |
X-ceptional This year's NBA playoffs have already given us epic comebacks, suspensions, MVP season-ending injuries, confrontations with refs, confrontations with fire extinguishers, and (my personal favorite) superstar game winners ... and no team has played more than two games. |
Sports Central March 14, 2011 Vito Curcuru |
Eastern Conference Race is Heating Up The NBA's Eastern Conference is garnerning a lot of attention and not just due to East Coast bias and Carmelo Anthony's presence in NYC. Some teams are imploding, while others are rising, and there are actual races for playoff spots. |
Sports Central December 27, 2012 Bob Ekstrom |
Christmas Give Fresh Starts to C's, Lakers NBA action on Christmas Day brought its usual yuletide cheer to ABC and ESPN, but it also started the righting of a league that has been a bit upside-down a third of the way though its schedule. |
Sports Central July 8, 2013 Bob Ekstrom |
A Brave New Association? Boston Celtics fans have a limited appetite for a long rebuilding campaign. They may like the concept now, but Danny Ainge's leash will be much shorter than those wielded by M.L. Carr and Rick Pitino throughout the 1990s. |
Sports Central May 4, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
The Perfect Storm There will need to be a perfect storm of circumstances for a higher seeded team to pull off an upset in this round of the NBA playoffs. |
Sports Central July 24, 2013 Andrew Jones |
14 Teams to Watch in 2013-14 The NBA season is still a ways away, but the offseason has been an interesting one. Here are 14 teams to watch in the upcoming season, some for obvious reasons ... others for not so obvious reasons. |
Sports Central June 15, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Finals Edition It was a very entertaining NBA Finals from start to finish. |
Sports Central February 1, 2010 Scott Shepherd |
Beantown Letdown The Boston Celtics are a good team. But they are no longer a great team. |
Sports Central January 23, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
The First Annual NBA Oscars Throw on your best tuxedo t-shirt and walk with me down the red carpet as we examine the list of inaugural nominees for the First Annual NBA Oscars! |
Sports Central January 18, 2011 Bob Ekstrom |
Celtics on Another Post-Christmas Hall Pass As long as the aging, battle-weary, and oftentimes unmotivated Celtics continue roaming the NBA's corridors with their post-Holidays hall pass, they'll be looking to hand the top seed off again. |
Sports Central June 11, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
NBA Finals Game 3: What's Up, Doc? While the Celtics still have control of the series despite the loss last night, coach Rivers might want to rethink his strategy for Game 4. |
Sports Central June 24, 2009 Matt Thomas |
A New Laker Dynasty? There is far too much parody to consider with any sort of reasonability the fact that a single win in a single championship series is anything other than a great season worth remembering. |
Sports Central June 9, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
NBA Finals Game 2: Too Little, Too Late The Lakers aren't dead yet. Twice in the last four NBA Finals the team with the three consecutive home games has swept all three games and gone on to win the series. |
Sports Central May 27, 2008 Bill Hazell |
Home Cooking Vital in These Playoffs Home court is everything in the NBA this year. |
Sports Central April 25, 2010 Vito Curcuru |
While Celtics and Magic Roll, Stern Fumes There are three things we have learned during the NBA playoffs: the ghost of Tim Donaghy past still haunts David Stern, the rumors of the Boston Celtics' demise have been greatly exaggerated, and the Orlando Magic may need to find a cape for Jameer Nelson. |
Sports Central December 10, 2007 Wailele Sallas |
NBA Superstars Trading Places How has the NBA got to this point? |
Sports Central May 9, 2011 Paul Foeller |
From the Decision to the Championship? The two-time defending champion Lakers won't have a chance at a three-peat. |
Sports Central October 13, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
82 Things to Watch For this NBA Season (Pt. 3) Here's a look at the preseason favorites to win some of the NBA's most prestigious awards. |
Sports Central April 11, 2005 Chris Lindshield |
Reveling in the Lakers' Demise The Los Angeles Lakers have both fair-weather and irrationally faithful fans. Kobe Bryant does not have the necessary leadership skills to drive the team to be champions. |
Sports Illustrated February 22, 2002 Jack McCallum |
Trade show Did the Bulls get a bum steer or a Rose of a deal? |
Sports Central June 17, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
NBA Finals Game 5: Closing Time Suddenly, the biggest question mark that has surrounded this team all season long has brought itself to the forefront: do the Celtics have what it takes to close out the biggest series any of them have ever played in? |