It's always a big night for the NBA when the Lakers and Celtics meet and tonight is one of those nights and there's a myriad of things to discuss about the NBA, so welcome to my NBA thoughts column.
- It's nice to have a rivalry that is the magnitude of Lakers/Celtics, I feel that after these two teams met up again for the 2008 Finals it resparked the flame between these two organizations that has kept up ever since and around the time of that Finals series we've seen other current day NBA rivalries pop up. They're certainly not on the scale of Lakers/Celtics but they're entertaining games. There's Celtics/Magic, Celtics/Bulls, Heat/Lakers, Nuggets/Lakers and of course Mavs/Spurs has always been a good one and I'm sure there are others I'm neglecting, but I'm so glad that the NBA is rich on games like tonight because they are the match ups that the fans look for now.
- The Carmelo Anthony Saga Continues- 'Melo in the purp and yellow, not going to happen, but boy did it spark up a huge debate about which big three would be the league's best if 'Melo joined Kobe and Gasol. My pick would have to go to the Lakers because Gasol overrules Bosh any day of the week and Boston's Big 3 is unfortunately on the way out. But in terms of Big 2, it would have to hands down be Miami because Wade and James are to explosive and Bryant has aged too much for that duo to be better.
- Jerry Sloan is apparently calling it a career after 23 seasons with the Utah Jazz...I can't believe that number, 23 seasons. He was hired as the head coach of the Jazz five months after I was born, that's insane! There seemed to be issues between Sloan and his star point guard Deron Williams and it looks like Sloan may have had enough and the Jazz is a franchise that has rode with Sloan since 1988 and they weren't going to move Williams, so the issues between the two were definitely going to continue until one had enough and it seems like the 68 year old Sloan is now ready to call it a career. It'll be interesting to see what stories come out now that Sloan has stepped down.
- The Cavs, oh my goodness the Cavs, they were actually favored to beat the Detroit Pistons and then proceeded to put forth one of their worst performances of the season. One of my favorite shows from the 90's was Kenan & Kel and I have to quote Kenan on this issue regarding the Cavs' loss to the Pistons last night, "Whhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?"
- The Sixers lost a tough one last night to the Orlando Magic, in the fourth quarter they just couldn't keep up with all the shooters the Magic put on the floor late in the game and J.J. Redick killed them. The Sixers have always had a problem keeping tabs on the Magic and it showed again last night, I had a sense of deja vu watching the game, it took me back to the playoff series the two teams played a couple years back when it seemed like Orlando would hit 12 threes a game and I actually think they did.
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