Magic Johnson and Larry Bird are two iconic players, perhaps the best ever at their respective positions. The 1980s saw the rivalry of Magic vs Bird at center stage of the NBA’s popularity. They won a combined 6 MVP awards and 8 NBA titles. Usually, when they are referenced, it’s Magic and Bird. Today’s we find out who was better – Magic or Bird? [Read more…]
Superstars change everything for NBA teams. For any team without one, the goal becomes finding a way to get a hold of one, either via trades or in the draft. Once a team is able to land one, however, everything changes. For the New Orleans Pelicans, everything changed in the 2012 draft when they landed Anthony Davis. Last season, they watched him emerge as – at worst – the third best player in basketball, and everything changed again. Coming off their first playoff
PHILOSOPHICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” -George Bernard Shaw [Read more…]
Once again, to the dismay of GM Sam Hinkie and the rest of the folks running the Philadelphia 76ers,.the NBA will insist the franchise play all 82 games this season rather than just skip straight to the only part they seem to care about: the draft lottery. After all, no team has seemed to make less of what goes on between the lines from late October through mid-April than the team that has openly flaunted the rules, believing it is the
**Derrick Rose was named the league’s MVP for the 2010-11 season. He was the youngest MVP in NBA history at 22 years old. In the four seasons since then, he has played in 100 out of a possible 312 regular season games (32.1%). [Read more…]
PHILOSOPHICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If we are not a little bit uncomfortable every day, we’re not growing. All the good stuff is outside our comfort zone.” -Jack Canfield [Read more…]
It has been three seasons since the Orlando Magic have had to change their franchise’s future and goals by trading Dwight Howard. Three seasons since GM Rob Hennigan was installed and broke everything down, sold off everything that was not bolted down and committed to a long rebuilding process centered on the draft and sustainability. And so here the Magic sit, three years after that fateful decision. And with what? The Magic professed that 2015 would be the season the team showed
West played 14 NBA seasons and made the All-Star game in every season. The only other players to play at least 10 seasons and make the All-Star game in every season are Julius Erving (11 seasons), Bob Pettit (11) and Paul Arizin (10). [Read more…]