Kobe Bryant is only one ring away from tying Michael Jordan with six, and he has already said that anything short of a championship this season will be unacceptable. But does the Black Mamba have the players around him to get it done? How the Lakers can win: Let your 7-footers dominate. Kobe is the key in [...]

It seems like the first games of this shortened NBA season on Christmas Day was only a short time ago, but the Playoffs are already here. Similar to last year, the Spurs have secured the top spot and home court throughout the Western Conference Playoffs. But will they be upset in the first round? The Utah Jazz sure [...]

This might be one of the more intriguing matchups in the first round of the Western Conference Playoffs – the defending champion Dallas Mavericks taking on the up-and-coming Oklahoma City Thunder. This is also a rematch of last year’s Western Conference Finals series between the two teams in which Dallas won the series 4-1. How the Thunder can [...]

As many analysts predicted, today’s NBA trade deadline was a flurry of action.  The Los Angeles Lakers were one of the busiest teams in the league.  The trade that sent shockwaves through Laker Nation was the deal that sent longtime fan favorite Derek Fisher (and a draft pick) to the Houston Rockets for F Jordan [...]

As the NBA makes its way down the final month and a half of the season, teams trying to make noise in this season’s playoffs need to trade for a missing piece to get over the hump.  In the Eastern Conference, the favorites to make the Eastern Conference Finals are Miami and Chicago.  But what [...]