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NBA Playoffs – Grizzlies vs Clippers Game 1 Predictions
Two teams with similar strengths are the only repeat from last season when it comes to first round series, as the Los Angeles Clippers, holding the home court advantage, take on the Memphis Grizzles after both teams finished with identical records.
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NBA Playoffs – Bulls vs Nets Game 1 Predictions
In a series that’s aiming to be the least pretty out of all the 8 first round matchups in the NBA playoffs, the potential absence of Joakim Noah from the Chicago Bulls lineup, losing their best option in limiting Brook Lopez, the number one scoring threat the Brooklyn Nets have to offer.
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NBA Playoffs – Warriors vs Nuggets Game 1 Predictions
No one shoots the three-ball better than Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors, but that’s pretty much the only advantage they have going for them against the highly favored Denver Nuggets in a first round NBA playoffs series that threatens to set a few scoring record and provide the highest entertainment value during the first couple of weeks.
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NBA Playoffs – Celtics vs Knicks Game 1 Predictions
An interesting, almost unfamiliar situation for both teams heading into the 2013 NBA Playoffs opening game. The Boston Celtics, without home court advantage, and possibly a city looking up for them to turn a tragedy into something positive to cling on to. On the other side, the New York Knicks, or Carmelo Anthony and the rest, finding themselves as favorites in a postseason series for the first time in over a decade.
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Sanchez vs Tebow – Quarterback Blames New York Jets
The reason why the New York Jets did so badly last season? There are quite a few of them, but making too much of the competition between Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow certainly didn’t help, forcing too much media attention on quarterbacks that needed a little more space and less pressure in what initially looked like will be quite interesting competition for the starting job.
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NFL Rumors – Denver Broncos & New York Jets Interested in Chris Ivory
As always, the need for a running back for the Denver Broncos is causing dilemmas between the emptying free agent market and possibly trying to sign Chris Ivory from the New Orleans Saints or going for a younger option in the NFL Draft, although they’re quite perplexed about what to do in the first round.
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NFL Rumors – Seattle Seahawks Turning Bruce Irvin & Cliff Avril into Linebackers
After acquiring most of the top Defensive Ends in the free agency market, the Seattle Seahawks need to do something with the overload at the position, which wasn’t too bad for them to begin with. Solution? Turning, at least partially, some of them into outside linebackers in their 4-3 defense, specifically Bruce Irvin and Cliff Avril, who’ll get some time at the position in 2013.
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NFL Rumors – Minnesota Vikings Interested in Lawrence Jackson
With an aging defensive line that’s not going to be as effective as in the past, the Minnesota Vikings need to start looking for younger options, not only through the draft, which is impossible to use in making an immediate change in multiple positions. For that, there are the remaining free agents, like Lawrence Jackson, departing after three seasons with the Detroit Lions.
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NBA Playoffs – Clippers vs Grizzlies Series Predictions
In the only repeating series from last season’s playoffs, the Los Angeles Clippers, managing to get the home court advantage in the final few days of the season, will get to play in another physical and possibly long and not-so-pretty against the Memphis Grizzlies, who need to start coming through on all those dark horse compliments and descriptions.
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NBA Playoffs – Nuggets vs Warriors Series Predictions
In a season that threatens to be the highest scoring we’ve seen in quite some time, the Denver Nuggets will try to overcome losing their second best scorer to a season ending injury, while the Golden State Warriors are hoping that the Stephen Curry magical shooting tour doesn’t end in the first round.