Chris Paul and Dwight Howard have been talking recently about becoming teammates next season, according to ESPN’s Chris Broussard.

Because Broussard is reporting this, that means that it almost certainly won’t happen, but that’s beside the point.

Any team that could put the best point guard and arguably the best center in the league on the court at the same time has a chance to contend for an NBA Championship, and that’s exactly what would happen if Paul and Howard team up somewhere next year.

While it seems unlikely this will actually happen, let’s look at the potential teams that could pull this off, and how they’d stack up against the other teams in the NBA.

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Take winning out of the equation, and LeBron James is one of the best basketball players to ever walk this planet.

The NBA has never seen a player as big, strong, fast, and smart as LeBron. He can drop 50 points or dish out 15 dimes on any given night.

He is the most versatile offensive weapon is any sport right now.

But winning is a big part of a player’s legacy, and LeBron’s legacy is on the line tonight in Game 4.

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Jason Kidd is serious in his pursuit to become the new head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, according to Yahoo! Sports.

Kidd, who retired from the NBA one week ago, led the Nets to two NBA Finals appearances during his tenure in New Jersey.

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Game 1 on the NBA Finals did not fail to meet expectations. Even though the box score suggests that Miami should have won the game, it was the Spurs that pulled out a 92-88 victory on the road.

But the NBA is about adjustments, Eric Spoelstra is one of the best coaches in the associated at making adjustments from game to game.

Here’s what Miami needs to do tonight to tie up the series.

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Greg Popovich, Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, and Manu Ginobili have been the core of the San Antonio Spurs organization for the past decade.

Somehow, this Spurs dynasty seems to constantly over looked when experts talk about the best stretches of all time. Since San Antonio hired Greg Popovich in 1996, the Spurs have made the playoffs in each of his 16 seasons, won the division 10 times, won the conference 5 times, and won 4 NBA Championships (1999, 2003, 2005, 2007).

While Pop and Duncan have won 4 titles, Parker and Ginobili have only been around for the most recent three. So let’s take a look back and see what the Spurs looked like back then compared to now.

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It’s the reigning NBA champions against a team that has won four championships since 1999. It is the “Big 3” against one of the original “Big 3’s”. It’s the top seed in the Eastern Conference against the second seed in the Western Conference. It is the Miami Heat against the San Antonio Spurs, and this, is the NBA Finals.

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The Denver Nuggets and head coach George Karl have decided to part ways, even after Karl won the 2012-2013 Coach of the Year Award.

Karl, who was entering the final year of his contract, wanted a long-term extension and the Nuggets front office was not ready to commit to Karl long-term.

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Scored 4 TD’s for Polk High while wearing a tuxedo.

After a grueling seven game series that included Lebron James dragging the half dead corpses of Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh around, the Miami Heat defeated the Indiana Pacers to move on to the NBA finals. Yay parity! I honestly couldn’t give two shits about either team, but I guess gun to my head I was sort of rooting for the Pacers.  Herein lies the reason why I have grown to hate the NBA, because it’s just not a fun league.  It’s dominated by moronic and corrupt referees who think the fans show up to see them blow the whistle every five seconds.  Also the league is no longer about rooting for your favorite team it’s about rooting against the best team in the league.  This has been the case for years, in the 90′s it was cool to hate the Bulls and at various times over the years the team to hate was either the Lakers or the Celtics.  Now you’re either a fan of the Heat (most of their fans seem to not live anywhere near Florida though) or you’re ultimately rooting against the Heat, which has been the case ever since Lebron aired his award winning documentary “The Decision”.  Maybe I’m just a bitter a Knicks fan but probably not since I only barely care about Knicks and literally shrugged when they were pathetically eliminated by the Pacers in the second round. Read the rest of this entry »

With last night’s 99-76 loss to the Heat, the Indiana Pacers season officially ended.

After watching the series, it was clear to me that the current Indiana Pacers team just isn’t good enough to win a NBA Championship.

The roster is good enough to be one of the better teams in the league, but it is not a championship quality roster, and the Heat proved that in Game 7 by exposing Indiana’s flaws.

If you want to get through the East, you are going to have to beat the Heat, and there is one free agent this offseason who I think can put the Pacers into the category of elite teams in the NBA, and make them even better than Miami.

And that man’s name is Chris Paul.

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The Miami Heat’s Big “3″ of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh was supposed to be the best in the NBA. And for the most part of the regular season, they were.

However, in the Eastern Conference Finals against the Indiana Pacers, two of the “Big 3” have completely disappeared.

When Miami’s stars come to play, the Heat are virtually unbeatable. But when they don’t, the Pacers are the better team in this series.

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