“Competitive balance is something that is hard to achieve for any•of the 4 major professional sports leagues in the United States.• Baseball is beginning to defy that logic however.• In the NFL a dynasty seems to occur each decade•while the NBA•has had•a total of 8 teams win the past 31 championships.• Major League [...]
Read More →The Heat did what they were supposed to do in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. For Dallas, that might be all well and good except when you consider this fact: The winner of Game One of the NBA Finals has won the series the past four seasons. The last team to win [...]
Read More →Playoff failure is often a prerequisite for any young team with future NBA championship aspirations. We’ve seen it with arguably the two most dominant players in these playoffs with Dirk Nowtizki and LeBron James. Nowitzki and Dallas coughed up a 2-0 lead in the finals to the Miami Heat, losing four straight [...]
Read More →“We are just about a quarter of the way through this young baseball season and a number of teams among Major Leagues Baseball’s dozen richest payrolls have losing records. Six of twelve to be exact, including Boston (3), the Chicago White Sox (5), the Chicago Cubs (6), the New York Mets (7), Minnesota [...]
Read More →True champions never pack it in.
• When the Boston Celtics won their seventeenth championship in 2008, the series was completed by an absolute undressing of the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 6.
• It was the second biggest rout in NBA Finals history, an utter domination in which [...]
Read More →Often times, you have to beat the best to become the best. The Dallas Mavericks are proving just that in their throttling of the two time defending NBA Champion Lakers through the series’ first two games in Los Angeles. I did not think they would get out of the first round and now [...]
Read More →The Bulls looked a little vulnerable in the first round against the upstart Pacers. Perhaps we underestimated Indiana and it’s plethora of quality young players. Or was it just another case of growing pains by a young playoff team trying to make the leap to contender? The Bulls are still learning to play [...]
Read More →Memphis Grizzlies General Manager Chris Wallace was widely panned around NBA circles for his 2008 trade of franchise forward Pau Gasol. The critics had good reason to be upset as it turned out. The trade gave Kobe Bryant the sidekick he lacked and the Lakers have made the NBA Finals in each [...]
Read More →Playoff time is here and now we get to see what should be one of the NBA’s best post seasons in years. Think about the potential matchups in the second round alone in two weeks. Boston and Miami, Los Angeles and Dallas or Portland, San Antonio and Oklahoma City, Orlando and Chicago. Much [...]
Read More →It happens in every sport. We split teams into conferences and base who goes to the playoffs out of who does the best in those respective conferences. It is both practical and ideal in many cases. Is it fair though? I guarantee the Houston Rockets do not think it is fair as they [...]
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