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Kevin Durant & LeBron James – Playoff Rivals, Preseason Friends
In a few years time, the LeBron James – Kevin Durant duo might be one of the greatest individual rivalries in the history of the NBA, if we’ll get to see a few more Heat – Thunder Finals series. But there’s hatred or grudge off the court between these two, choosing to train together during the off season once again.
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New York Knicks – Another Isiah Thomas Warning
What does James Dolan see in Isiah Thomas? The man who did a terrible job as the President of basketball operations with the New York Knicks and just as bad of a job as the team’s head coach might be returning to some managerial positions once again, if the owner gets his way.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Getting by on Starters Alone
The starting five that the Los Angeles Lakers will present in the 2012-2013 NBA Season will be quite impressive – Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash at guard, Metta World Peace as small forward, Pau Gasol at power forward and Dwight Howard at center. Arguably the best in the NBA. Enough for an NBA title?
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Boston Celtics – Giving the Keys to Rajon Rondo
Truth be told, this has been Rajon Rondo’s team for the last couple of seasons, maybe even three. The Boston Celtics may still be led by Kevin Garnett, but there’s no doubt for two-three seasons that their hard to figure out point guard is the guy they’re building around, for good and for bad.
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Dwight Howard – Still Feels Love for Orlando, not Magic
Leaving a team to improve your career never sits well with local fans, the ‘betrayed’, and Dwight Howard doesn’t like the fact that Orlando Magic fans (and plenty of others around the NBA) don’t really have too much love for him anymore, after eight seasons with the club. So he takes out an ad, trying to make himself look just a little bit less evil.
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7 Most Entertaining NBA Teams to Watch Next Season
Predicting the NBA champion next season is probably picking between three, maybe four teams – The Miami Heat with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade; The Oklahoma City Thunder, with Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook; The Los Angeles Lakers with Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol, and maybe even the San Antonio Spurs deserve a mention. But the most exciting team? Most worthwhile to watch teams? The Denver Nuggets, The Minnesota Timberwolves and the Los Angeles Clippers are also in the mix.
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New York Knicks – Carmelo Anthony Not Taking Them Far
Hoping that the Carmelo Anthony of the Olympic games is going to show up and whisk the New York Knicks to uncharted territory, meaning a conference semifinal, where they haven’t been to since 2000, is simply putting all your money on a false idol; a player who’s very good, but not good enough to take teams on his back as the leading man.
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10 Youngest Teams in the NBA
So what’s better to have when you’re trying to win an NBA title – Youth or Experience? Probably, almost universally speaking, experience. Talent is the actual deciding factor, but teams filled with young stuff are usually in some sort of rebuild mode. The Oklahoma City Thunder, with their three stars all under 24 at the moment, are the exception, and probably a bit of a fluke in how they came together.
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Oklahoma City Thunder – Changes Needed to Beat the Miami Heat
If you’d have to pick, right now, two NBA teams that are going to reach the 2013 NBA Finals, it would probably be the Oklahoma City Thunder from the West and the Miami Heat from the East. While the Thunder should run into a bit more opposition from the Lakers than they did last year but at the moment, most signs point to a repeat of the recent finals series.