Game 7 is here! Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles is jumping early, but you can feel the tension in the building. Laker fans are in full force, with a few Celtic fans sprinkled around the arena. Tons of streaks are on the line, as well as legacies. Game 7 is where star players become … [Read more…]
Though Pau Gasol is focused on winning an NBA championship, his heart is still in Spain. So, when the Spanish national team suffered a stunning 1-0 loss to Switzerland in its first match in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, Gasol felt the pain of his countrymen. “Tough loss. Not the way we … [Read more…]
Game 7. Celtics vs. Lakers. The NBA couldn’t have scripted this any better. One game will decide the 2010 NBA Finals and it will come down to the two superpowers of the league. The Boston Celtics, winners of 17 world titles, take on the Los Angeles Lakers, owners of 15 world titles. The great Celtics’ … [Read more…]
Lakers center Andrew Bynum played only 16 minutes in Game 6 of the 2010 NBA Finals and told Phil Jackson that he felt a little tightness in the back of his right leg, which made it difficult for him to run up and down the court. “He wasn’t able to move fluidly in the second … [Read more…]
Kendrick Perkins is the anchor of the Boston Celtics and without him the Celtics sunk like the Titanic. Seven minutes into Game 6 of the 2010 NBA Finals, the Celtics lost their starting center when he came down awkwardly on his right knee while trying to grab an offensive rebound away from Kobe Bryant and … [Read more…]
The L.A. Lakers are a proud basketball team that doesn’t easily back down from challenge – at least the leaders of the team don’t. So, after losing two of three in Boston, Lakers head coach Phil Jackson and team co-captain Kobe Bryant were in very salty moods. And who can blame them? For the first … [Read more…]
Kobe Bryant wanted to win another NBA title so bad it nearly cost him. Despite shooting a pathetic 6-for-26 in Game 7 of the 2010 NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics, Bryant was awarded the Finals MVP trophy as he celebrated his fifth NBA championship. Is Bryant the greatest Laker of all time? That’s the … [Read more…]
Charley Barkley can, at times, be a little bombastic when it comes to his basketball assessments for TNT and NBATV, but his opinion of Ron Artest in the 2010 NBA Finals is dead on. Barkley criticized the Lakers forward for being absent offensively for much of this series and his lack of productivity is hurting … [Read more…]
Back in the 1980s, what made the Lakers-Celtics rivalry extra heated was because of the cultural differences between the two ballclubs and their fans. The Celtics were considered a hard-working, lunch-pail group that was more interested in substance that style. Fans who followed and admired the Celtics followers were predominantly white, mainly because the two … [Read more…]
Andrew Bynum is expected to have his ailing right knee examined today and his status for Game 5 is uncertain. Bynum has been playing with a torn meniscus since the first round of the 2010 NBA playoffs, but he reaggravated the injury in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. Lakers officials say there is swelling … [Read more…]