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Are The Indiana Pacers Ready To Topple The Miami Heat?
The Indiana Pacers maintained their perfect start improving to 5-0 courtesy of a 97-80 victory over Derick Rose and the Chicago Bulls. Everything has gone right for the Pacers in the early season. Paul George has elevated his game to the next level while the bench has been drastically better with C.J. Watson, Donald Sloan […]
NBA Season Preview 2013-14: Southeast Division
The NBA 2013-14 season is just over one week away. Training camps and preseason action is fizzling out as the nature and likely story lines of the upcoming season become more obvious. The Southeast division will once again be all about the Miami Heat and their attempt to reach a fourth consecutive NBA finals and […]
Introducing This Season’s New NBA Head Coaches
13 of the NBA’s teams will start the 2013-14 season with a new head coach. That has become a pretty standard story line in professional sports, which is a results business. Of those 13 new coaches, nine of them will be coaching in the NBA for the very first time. It’s time to introduce Michael […]
NBA Preview 2013-14: Breakouts For Griffin, Wall and Turner
The 2013-14 basketball season is now just about one month away. NBA basketball is all about big superstars. There may be no rookies expected to break in as immediate stars from the 2013 NBA draft, but there are a group of recent young former high draft picks who might just be ready to break in […]
Miami Heat ‘Quietly’ Shaping Up As Favorites For 2018 Title
A lot of the offseason discussion has focused on what the contenders can do to usurp the two-time champion Miami Heat, but as the 2013-14 season gets closer it might just be time to look at the franchise aiming for an historic three-peat. As much as some of the NBA’s other top teams have improved, […]
What Do Josh Smith and Al Jefferson Signings Mean?
All of the front court 2013 NBA free agent attention was focused upon Dwight Howard and where he will end up. However, two other major free agent front court pieces were also available summer in former Atlanta Hawks forward Josh Smith and former Utah Jazz forward Al Jefferson have also made up their minds in […]
LeBron James’ Legacy Is Now Untouchable
LeBron James has played as much basketball as just about any other player over the last few seasons. Few superstars have had their on-court game as severely critiqued and interrogated as James. However, he finished the 2013 NBA season having won two straight NBA titles and having won two straight NBA playoff MVP awards. It’s […]
How Many Championships Can The Miami Heat Win?
The Miami Heat’s ‘big three’ won their second consecutive championship with a Game 7 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday. The second championship was significantly more difficult to win than the first one and many more questions have been asked about the core of this team that included full length series tests against […]
Miami Heat: Thinking About The 2018 Roster
It may seem like a strange time to broach the subject with the 2013 NBA Finals hanging by a knife’s edge following a Game 5 victory for the San Antonio Spurs, which gives them a 3-2 lead in the series. However, the Miami Heat will have learned a crucial lesson during the 2013 NBA playoffs, […]
Can Atlanta Hawks Emerge As NBA Powerhouse In 2013-14?
The Atlanta Hawks have made their intentions extremely clear entering the 2013 NBA offseason and free agency period. This is a franchise and a team that wants to emulate the Miami Heat from a few seasons ago clearing out salary and making large splashes in the free agency period to re-generate their franchise. The question […]