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Kobe Bryant – unavailable for 6 games at a stretch

Kimi — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:44:07 +0000

Los Angeles Lakers would be going to play their 6th game at a stretch against Sans Antonio Spurs without any Kobe Bryant. “Kobe will be probably also unavailable for the game against Golden State” said the coach Mike Brown. According to Brown Kobe has shown a remarkable improvement from tenosynovities injury that he had in his left shin. This injury has made him sit in the bench since April 7th.
Out of the five matches that Los Angeles Lakers played without the star power they had won four of them. “He has done lots of good activities on the play court. We are counting on the days for his comeback. But the best part is that he is improving rapidly.” added Brown indicating Bryant.
Kobe Bryant has playing included in his schedule recently reported the Los Angeles Lakers coach. “He is moving around in a well manner” said the coach.
Kobe is already moving around without pain in the absence of the boot that covered and protected his left shin. All that he has to do now is that he has to prove his running and jumping capability without pain in absence of his protective boots. It he passes this test then he is fit to play in the game.
Lakers have five games remaining in this season of their play. Their schedule is very compact and starts with the match against Golden State Warriors scheduled on Wednesday. Then they will play against Spurs scheduled on Friday at Sans Antonio. They will end their season with the home match against Oklahoma City Thunder and Sacramento Kings respectively.
“He will be definitely available before the playoff takes place.” said Brown in an interview with Heather Cox, an ESPN reporter. But he has not given any hint on any particular date of return he Los Angeles Lakers star.
Brown added, “The Feeling for the game of the players like Bryant is very good which allows him to fit in the game in a better way than most of the other players.” He said that it would be unscientific for him to give a tentative number of games that Bryant will take to be in form. According to him it’s the feeling which is most important.
Brown said, “The team is very much confident about them and holds the strength to defeat any of the other team on their home ground. Team is ready to play any matches anywhere anytime if needed.”

NBA’s Age Limit to Rise High

Kimi — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:08:24 +0000

There has been a constant conflict between colleges and leagues to raise the legal age limit of the NBA to above 20 years. It was acknowledged as an incredible system that will benefit the colleges and the players as well. The additional year of service will enable the players to improve their talents and skills while raising the level of game played in colleges. The NBA will surely be happy to welcome the young talents with full-fledged experiences. Every aspirant athlete is eager to learn and test their mettle in the extravaganza of NBA crucible yet we should understand the fact that the little player from the school is not yet mature enough to play the professional basketball.

Therefore it has been accepted fact that the young athlete needs another year of schooling in order to groom him with sophistication and seasoning with higher education and proper training. Mark Cuban said, “I just think there’s a lot more kids that get ruined coming out early, or going to school trying to be developed to come out early, than actually make it,” and thus suggested a new plan. According to the Cuban plan he has asked the NBA committee to enforce the law that the young players should at least have played three college seasons before becoming eligible for the draft league game. Under the Cuban’s plan the players who do not want to go to college can join the NBA Developmental League for three seasons until they become eligible for the NBA draft. In earlier time out of the 47 players who played the NBA Draft right from the high schools only few of them were picked and others were just a plain mystery in the crowd.

A Tough Blow for the Bobcats

Kimi — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:06:43 +0000

It was really a tough time for the Charlotte Bobcats and the stars were not at all at their favor. Recently the team has lost another chance of winning as it has lost the 15th successive game as well. However, during the last match the team has faced another tough competitor that is team Philadelphia that posed a defeat on team Bobcats with an extensive score of 98-89. It was not so easy for the team to bear the defeat as it snatched their last chance of coming back to the main stream of NBA league and now it seems quite impossible.

Though almost all of the players tried to play a good game yet there performance was not up to the mark, especially when it was compared to the performance of the players of Philadelphia. It was only Lou Williams who had been able to score a noticeable point that is 23, though he scored it just off the bench. However, the franchise of Michael Jordan slumped from 3 to 25 for this season of NBA basketball. However, this effort proved to be least one and actually didn’t work to create any magic on the filed while playing against Philadelphia.

LeBron James ended the game with only 35v points in his collection and Dwayne Wade had much less than him as he scored 22 only. Still they couldn’t secure a win against Milwaukee.

Another match was held at the same day and in that match, a seventeen good points that was scored by a young player Jason Richardson, assisted the team Orlando Magic to secure a win over Minnesota with a noticeable score of 102-89.

When the team was experiencing a hurting defeat, another team that is New Orleans was really experiencing something different and exciting as well. During the match Chris Kaman was the real hero who gave his best and succeeded to score 27 points and thirteen rebounds, which helped the team to take a u-turn and secure a win over Utah Jazz with a point of 86-80. Another player of the team that is Dirk Nowitzki succeeded to score 22 points in the same match in which Maverick gave a tough fight to Clipper and beat him with 96-92.

At the last half of the game David Lee successfully scored 28 points as the team Golden State Warriors defeated the other Team Phoenix Suns at with a score of 102-96.

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Kimi — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:06:24 +0000

A Remarkable Victory from James after Joining His Native Club

Kimi — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:05:52 +0000

The last Friday was a great day for the NBA basketball events tournaments as LeBron bagged a winning record on behalf of Cleveland

He returned with an enormous energy and bubbling vigor and successfully scored 28 points in the match, though it was not easy to win against such a potential team in opponent. The new side of James actually won 111-87.

However, it is being said by critics that the return of the James to Cleveland is temporary and he will surely once again get back to Cavaliers. With this suspect a huge number of fans booed this energetic and young player but their effort went to ashtray as it affected the spirit of the player in no ways and the outcome is now known to all.

Otherwise the dream of Jeremy Lin would have shattered as the seven game of New York knick’s has been halted by an 85-95 victory, which was enough to mar Cleveland’s glory.

During the match Lin succeeded to score 26 points only, an approach that is praise able and sometime won equal appreciation like James. However, in the same match he did commit 9 turnovers which have been regarded as the worst mistake ever committed at NBA basketball league.

Another player, Dwight Howard also succeeded to score 26 points and he also did pick 20 rebounds when Orlando Magic gave a 94-85 beat to Milwaukee. At the same time Kelvin Love succeeded to score 33 points when team Minnesota countered Houston at 111- 98.

The match took a dramatic turn when Dante Cunningham tipped in a miss with Rudy Gay in a fraction of second when Grizzlies succeeded to beat Denver with a gap of 103-102.

Often it seems that a little score do a great job and that is the same in case of Mavericks. Only 28 points and twelve rebounds brought the player on track as he succeed to overcome the deficit of 15 points and coined the point to use against Philadelphia 76 ers and beat the team by 82-75.

The season’s best point however was scored by AL Jefferson that pushed the Washington Wizard towards winning with a gap of 114-110 and they succeed to win over Utah Jazz though losing run of Charlotte come to an end at 16th game along with 98-91 victory over the Toronto team. In short it can be said that the match was truly exciting and heated the environment of NBA league.

Who was it with the honors for the player of the month?

Kimi — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:12:42 +0000

Check this out! Was surfing to find an online casino and thumped on this. The big heat of Miami LeBron James as well as Kevin Durant from the Oklahoma City Thunder’s was honored today with the Kia NBA Western and Eastern Conference Players respectively for the games played during the month of February.
It is the second time that James had captured the player of the month award, actually leading Miami to a record of 11-2 during the month of February. It was James who actually led the conference by scoring 24.6 ppg and had posted the double-figure point as totals in all the 13 games with the Miami team. Also, in the East in Assists, he finished amongst the top ten with an apg of 6.5, a goal percentage of 0.540 and a spg of 1.69. Aside that James also pressed four double-doubles when he played 35.8 mpg. Further, it was another remarkable event as he scored his 18,000th career point against Philadelphia in a match that was played on February 3.
Also, it was Durant who helped the Thunder team to gain a victory of 12-3 during the month along with the help that was given away by seven scoring efforts of 30-plus-point. He also kept his swift pace across the league along with an average of 29.1 points. It was in a match against Denver during Feb 19 that Durant made his high score in his career with 51 points that swept along with eight of the rebounds leading to a 124-118 winning game. Later, Oklahoma City’s mighty 12 wins for the month of February topped the league with a glow, and the record of 12-3 was equal to that of the best ever made in history, namely the 12-3 during the year 1972. With that, Durant was named as the MVP NBA All-Star Game in Orlando for the year in 2012, and a special thanks to his performance on Feb. 26, the 36-point, offered during the 152-149 victory by the West over the East.

Bonner’s 17 points gave Spurs a win over Mavericks

Kimi — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:41:18 +0000

Well the NBA’s compressed season has started to show its negative effects and it is evident from the performance of Dirk Nowitzki on Thursday night against San Antonio Spurs. This was the sixth game of Dallas Mavericks and was the lowest scoring result for the star forward team as he scored only 6 points on his 3-of-11 shooting leading to a 93-71 loss for the team. It seems that Nowitzki himself is admitting that the short turnaround has affected his game this season. Jason Kidd’s injury later in the game turned all the chances against the team. Now the team is planning to reevaluate him on the coming Friday.

Out of 77 shots in the game Mavericks were able to hit only 27 and just a single shot out of nineteen shots were from the three-point range. On the other hand, the Spurs took advantage of 34 shots out of 86 shots. The main reason behind the Spurs win was the 16 shots out of 33 long-range shots played in the game. Bonner also added that they have a good start in the beginning of the season and back to back wins has given them a boost and Bonner has also scored more than Nowtizki.

When Spurs started the play, everybody felt Neal’s presence in the opening possession. Neal started his game with hitting three 3-pointers just in the beginning of the first quarter, giving Spurs a lead of 18-points in the initial quarter of the game. The team also lacked Manu Ginobili, their leading scorer and when Nowitzki’s team started to trail with 66-42 in the fourth quarter, Coach Rick Carlisle opted Nowitzki out for the final session. Only two players from the Mavericks were able to reach double figures, these two players were Terry and Delonte West, and they scored 12 points and 10 points respectively.

On comparing the back-to-back of both the teams in this season, the Mavericks seem ahead of Spurs with 22 back-to-backs as compared to 20 back-to backs of Spurs. However, for the Thursday match Spurs coach feel that the real fire of the Mavericks was not present in the game and the team might get in a better shape later in the season. At the end of the day, Matt Bonner’s 17 points gave Spurs a nice victory over the Mavericks, and these points took him ahead of veteran Tim Duncan from Spurs as well. Better games seem to be slated in the coming time and hope that fans get to see better performance as well.

Hayes took another blow from Drew Gooden a night after Chris Andersen’s Charge

Kimi — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:40:49 +0000

Hayes stretched his left arm when he fouled Milwaukee center Gooden in second quarter of Thursday’s game, but he did not realized how much this foul will cost him. Somehow, his arm got entangled with Drew Gooden and all of a sudden his shoulder got dislocated and pooped out. Now, it seems that he will be out from the team indefinitely and the injury will prove to be pretty costly for him in this season. The moment this happened Hayes laid on the floor wriggling in a lot of pain and his screams could be heard clearly because the stunned audience stood their in all silence.
Even the sidelines echoed with his screams. Then Hayes walked inside himself holding his injured arm with all this might. One of the Kings representatives confirmed the news that Hayes has dislocated his shoulder and also informed about other tests as well. He told about a heart examination, which has showed some abnormality and for this further test will be conducted and thus this news also confirmed that the contract he has signed in December will become void. Just a few days later on, forward-center signed a new contract with Sacramento.
Until now, nothing can be said about the time of Hayes recovery and when will he able to play again on the court. This is a tragic scene for his fans, as the 6.6-foot tall and 250 pound strong veteran is known for his rugged and defensive play and also earns a hefty salary for his play. However, the disastrous collision on Thursday with Drew Gooden sent him straight to the floor howling in pain and sidelined him for the left of the match in that evening. It has been just a night when Hayes overtook the charge from Chris Andersen from Denver Nuggets and then came the shocking collision again sending Hayes on to the floor with a painful injury.
Afterwards Hayes commented that the charge from Birdman was comparatively more painful than earlier ones he has taken. He was also sure that the injury would not affect his style of playing, no matter how much pain he has to suffer because of the shoulder dislocation. Hayes is one of those players, who count his charges and collisions, unlike players, who rank their dunks and biggest shots. It seems that the charges are charging him up and making him a more aggressive and sturdy player. For, now the fans will just have to wait for his recovery.

NBA Top 10 Plays of the Night: January 6

Kimi — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:38:39 +0000

NBA lockout: could 2011 season be cancelled?

Kimi — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:17:47 +0000