Category: "NBA"

SportsNickel.com’s NBA Playoffs Preview and Predictions

West First Round Season series: 3-1 Lakers. While Kevin Durant just won the scoring title, I don’t think he nor his team has a chance of winning much else. He’ll get his points, but so will Kobe (Even though he has a bad finger) and Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom and Ron Artest. I’m curious [...]

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Episode 3 – Guess who’s back, back again?

Oh baby, we did it again. In this week’s sitdown, we hit up the MMA, the NBA and the NFL… I know.. hard to believe we could tackle the biggest sporting news in a short time, but sometimes we amaze ourselves. Check it out below. And yeah, I screwed up the teams in the Portland-Phoenix, [...]

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NBA News: Eddie Jordan fired as 76ers coach

In perhaps one of the least shocking moves in recent memory, 76ers President Ed Stefanski announced today they fired Eddie Jordan. Jordan lasted one year (27-55 record) with the 76ers, where the players never really liked the system he brought in. “Decisions of this nature are never easy but I am making this change because [...]

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You’re welcome Planet Hollywood!

Sometimes, if you want something done, you have to do it yourself. Or tell someone else to do it. I chose the latter. It started a couple of weeks ago when I went to Las Vegas and took a picture of a typo I saw walking down the strip. I wrote Harrah’s (they own Planet [...]

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Barkley’s pick to win it all? The Cleveland LeBrons

With the NBA Playoffs set to tipoff on Saturday, Charles Barkley thinks the NBA Championship is the Cavaliers to lose, according to a recent conference call with a bunch of TNT analysts. His reason? He thinks a lot of teams are simply too old or banged up. “When you get older and people say, ‘When [...]

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NBA Playoff scenarios

The league released the playoff scenarios with only a handful of games remaining in the 2009-10 regular season, and the Eastern conference 8th seed can still switch hands. Check out all the possibilities below!

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Monta Ellis: Stephen Curry “proved me wrong”

In a recent interview with a San Francisco radio station, Monta Ellis talked about the Warriors season and the impression rookie Stephen Curry has made on him. Listen to the interview:  [audio:http://www.knbr.com/portals/3/podcasts/fitzbrooks/0331ellis.mp3] Or read it below: On respect from other NBA players: “It’s great. I still don’t think I get the respect that I should, [...]

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How Brandon Jennings protects his $2mil grill

Not sure if I’m alone here, but I always find the smallest details of athletes fascinating, so when Brandon Jennings tweeted the type of mouthpiece he wears, I had to click to see the picture. Wasn’t sure what to expect, but I have to admit, they look pretty sweet. Under Armour is definitely trying to [...]

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