The Best Of All Time!

So now everyone who thinks they know something about the NBA is talking about " Is Kobe better then MJ?" and everyone and their mother wants to fight about this. I was on NBA.com today and talking to other guys about this and they just about lost it when I said that MJ is not the best of all time, they thought that some how I was saying Kobe is better. I was not, some how this thing is down to Kobe Or MJ and that is it, like they are the only guys ever to play this game and play it good. So now it is my turn to put you all right. You all want to talk about how MJ has more 50 point games then Kobe and how that makes him the best player of all time. Are you all that dumb? Wilt Chamberlain has three times the 50 point games that Kobe And MJ have put together. He is the only guy who averaged 50 a game for a year and when he averaged 44.8 the next year no one thought it was that good but it was more then MJ ever averaged for a year, so do not come to me with some weak ass opinion and then try to say MJ is the best player of all time thanks to having 31 career 50 point games, Wilt Chamberlain had over a 130 career 50 point games so MJ is not in the same world as him and if you think he did any better on 60 point games think again. MJ and Kobe have four each and Wilt Chamberlain has 32, yes that is not a typo I said 32. The best player when it came to puting the ball in the bisket was Wilt Chamberlain and it is not even close.

Now when the MJ fans are not saying he was the best thanks to being the best scorer of all time they as saying something just as dumb. That he is the best thanks to wining more rings then Kobe.... Hello!! Maybe I'm the only guy in this world who knows the name Bill Russell and if that is true let me help you out by listing his honors.

Honors: Elected to Naismith Basketball Basketball Hall of Fame (1975); NBA champion (1957, '59, '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '68, '69); NBA MVP (1958, '61, '62, '63, '65);
All-NBA First Team (1959, '63, '65); All-NBA Second Team (1958, '60, '61, '62, '64, '66, '67, '68); NBA All-Defensive Team (1969); 12-time NBA All-Star (1958-69); All-Star Game MVP (1963); One of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History (1996); Olympic gold medalist (1956).

Now read it one more time and count on your hands you unevolved tree-dwellers the number of times he was a champion. I'll give you a minute.....done? Yeah that is right ten. Ten, it is like he won as many rings as MJ and then was like ' no I think I'll do this three more times just to prove I'm the best at this. Yes one more time, MJ is not the best at this and would be lucky to rank in the top 5.


Oh and in case you are going to say that MJ did all the little things like have more assists a game then the guys who I just mantioned just remember that Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain's career rebound per game average is over 22.5. Bill Russell had 51 boards in one game, 49 in two others, and a dozen consecutive seasons of 1,000 or more rebounds and as As Oscar Robertson put it in the Philadelphia Daily News when asked whether Chamberlain was the best ever, "The books don't lie." Now I'm not saying that MJ is not a good player or one of the 10 best of all time but before you all start saying it is him or Kobe just remember that MJ did not set the benchmark of execellence Chamberlain and Russell did and MJ is just lucky that he is geting a mention when it comes to the best players of all time.

Last of all when it comes to who is better all time Kobe or MJ here is my list of the best players of all time 1 to 10.

1 Wilt Chamberlain

2 Bill Russell

3 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

4 Oscar Robertson

5 Shaquille O'Neal

6 Kobe Bryant

7 Michael Jordan

8 Magic Johnson

9 Larry Bird

10 Jerry West

Playoffs! Don't talk to me about PLAYOFFS!

With the NBA Playoffs just around the bend it is time to look at the standings and talk about the match-ups. After a lot of thought I think the West is going to stay the same for the last 16 games. So with that in mind here is the first round of the West Playoffs and how I think they would play out.

#1 Dallas
#8 Golden State

#2Phoenix
#7Denver

#3San Antonio
#6L.A. Lakers

#4Utah
#5Houston

So looking at this one by one starting from the top, I think that Golden State would give Dallas one hell of a series, as evidence the fact that Golden State is 2-0 this year against Dallas, but in the end I like Dallas in 7 games.

Phoenix and Denver is going to be fun TV that's for sure, I think the only question in this series is whether or not we are going to see a defensive play or not. My money is Phoenix playing just enough defense to get the job done in 6 games.

San Antonio and the Lakers, I'm sure you all know what I'm going to say but before you say I'm being a homer let me say this, the Lakers are 2 and 1 this year against San Antonio and the one loss was thanks to a buzzer-beater. Lakers in 6 games.

Utah and Houston, this should make for some of the best played and best coached games of the year. I think in the end the experience of Houston is going to pay-off. Houston in 7 games.

So after the first round if my memory is not letting me down the match-ups would be as follows.


#1 Dallas
#6L.A. Lakers


#2Phoenix
#5Houston

Dallas and the Lakers. This is very hard for me to call. I think Dallas is over-hyped and the Lakers always fight to the end. This is going 7 games for sure and I like the Lakers 101 to 100 in game 7. Like I said this is going to be hard.

Phoenix and Houston. This to me comes down to that fact that Phoenix just has too much fire power and I do not think T-mac can put up 50 in every game. Phoenix in 7 games.

So now we come to it the Western Conference Finals.

#2 Phoenix
#6 Lakers

Would it be too much to ask for the Lakers to best the top 3 teams in the West one after another? It could be, but on the other hand if they come this far with out going home I can not see Kobe letting them fall to the Suns two years in a row. This time it is the Lakers in 6.

This is all for now but look out for my Eastern Conference Playoff breakdown.

The Race For MVP

The race for MVP is on and in a lot of minds Dirk Nowitzki is the leading candidate but not in mine. If someone asked me today who I would give the MVP to I would start by saying that they should not have an MVP as it is an utterly subjective award. As for me I think that Shaq is always the MVP because without him a team with D Wade could not get over the 500 mark but with him they are on an 8 game win streak. Now I'm not saying that Shaq is going to get the award but he should. He is the Most Valuable Player to his team. Now on the other hand Shaq did not play most of the year and I know some of you are saying 'how can you say he is the MVP." It is true that Shaq was out for most of the year but what I'm saying is all that showed was just how valuable he is. So after saying all that I have to say that this award is more Best Player than Most Valuable Player. If you are going off of that criteria then my Best Player of the year award list looks something like this.

1. Steve Nash- His 20 points and 11 assists a game speak for themselves but he does all the little things too like leading the team in taking charges.
2. Dirk Nowitzki- The best 7 foot shooter ever, he does however have a problem coming through in the clutch.
3. Tim Duncan- The best power forward in history. Need I say more? How about 20 and 10 a game and the only thing that gives his team a chance of wining the west.
4. Kobe Bryant- Yeah Yeah I'm a homer but you all know damn well that you do not want to play the Lakers come playoffs and he is why. He could just go off for a 100.
5. Tracy McGrady- If we are talking best player this guy should be on every list.
   

" NBA -- it's No Boys Allowed."

Yes the NBA is No Boys Allowed or it is in the mind of anyone who knows the game like nine time champ Phil Jackson, Jackson told reporters " "That's crazy. That's a vendetta. They have a witch hunt going on. That's nuts. [Korver's] riding somebody. Everybody does that in this league.

"It's just becoming a witch hunt now," he said. "I know it's not a contact sport per se, but it's a physical game and there's a lot of intimidation," Jackson said. "I think that Kobe plays the game within the bounds. There's a certain rule that we have in this game about how to play it. The men play it. That's why it's called the NBA -- it's No Boys Allowed." Bryant has received two one-game suspensions this season for throwing elbows in games, once against the Timberwolves' Marko Jaric , for which he was whistled for an offensive foul, and the other against the Spurs' Manu Ginobili , where he didn't receive a foul on the play. The Spurs said after the game the it was not a foul and it was in no way a dirty play. Kobe is thought by most who know the game to be the best player in the game today and not to be in anyway a dirty player.

"It's insulting," Bryant said before the slumping Lakers flew to Denver for Thursday night's game against the Nuggets. "I don't need to be a dirty player. That's just ridiculous. I'm not a dirty player -- never have been, never will be."

"It is an after-the-fact type of thing," Jackson told reporters, "and that is bothersome. They have the advantage of looking at videotape. "We wish they would correct some of the mistakes they make in a ballgame the same way," he said. "There's a couple of games that probably could be swung, won or lost, by some of the calls they [could] correct after the fact. But you can't do that in the game. This all looks to be true, so in my mind I would have to go along with Jackson in saying this is a "witch hunt" It is hard to see the NBA doing the same thing to a Lebron James or a D Wade, not that they should anyway as Jackson said this is the NBA- No Boys Allowed. It looks to me as if the only crying little boys in the NBA are Stu Jackson and David Stern, Maybe they should stop the "witch hunt" and go back to what they do best, telling the players what they should look like when they come to the game and making sure that they do not talk back about the officiating!"

What a day, what a game

In one of the best games of the year the Suns won over the Mavericks 129 to 127 in double-overtime. Steve Nash played like an MVP down the stretch and Amare Stoudemire had 41 points and 10 rebounds, carrying the Phoenix Suns in a thrilling game between the NBA's top teams.Nash scored 10 points in the final minute of regulation, forcing overtime with a 3-pointer in the closing seconds and when the time came to win the game Dirk Nowitzki could not get the job done. This is the one thing in my mind that makes the Suns the better team and I think that world is going to see it come playoff time. The Lakers got good news today that star F Lamar Odom is going to play in the next game this is very good news for a Laker team that look to be falling out of the playoffs. If Lamar Odom plays the way he did before he was hurt this is going to make the Lakers a hard team to play come playoffs. As I said what a day, what a game.

The News

NFL,

So the NFL year is over and now it is time to make your team better to try to do what the Colts did this year and that is win it all. So who is doing the best job so far, In my mind I look at three teams. The team that is doing the best job of getting better is the Patriots and in my mind they have made all the right moves. If you do not know what moves they have made this year then you have not been looking at ESPN anytime in the last weeks. They have made all the big name move, like singing Adalius Thomas and Donte' Stallworth the best moves hands down. They now have maybe the best player in the NFL outside of LaDainian Tomlinson at QB and a number 1 wide out in Stallworth and if all that did not make them the best, the singing of Adalius Thomas did, one of the 5 best players on D in the NFL and maybe the best, he gives them a big game playmaker on that side of the ball. The two teams who have made the next best moves are the Rams and the Titans. The Rams got a number 3 wide out in Drew Bennett and the Titans got maybe the best CB in Nick Harper of the Colts.

NBA,

In the NBA it is more of the same, the Laker players get hurt, the Suns, Mavs and San Antonio win. Nothing that is very more then a little odd. It looks to me as if this year is going to look a lot like last year come playoff time. My money is on a Miami VS Suns, Mavs and San Antonio, Not sure yet who is going to win the west. The Lakers look as if they could fall out of the playoffs all together. They just have too many players hurt, if they do not come back before the playoffs I would have to say they are not going to do much to any of the good teams in the west. As for Miami they have done just what I thought they would do, Wade would get hurt and it would be the Shaq of the 2000 Lakers who would save the day.... Who am I kidding no one saw this coming but here it is the Shaq of the 2000 Lakers putting up 30 and 15 a night as Miami wins and wins. Look out west or you just could go down to the East this year the way you did last.