nbaplayoffs2009.gearupforsports.com - 6/1/2009
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I can see four reasons why the Lakers are going to go home this year with some freshly polished jewelry, and top of the list is…
1.Kobe Bryant
Anyone who watched his post-game press conference in Denver after demolishing the Denver Nuggets season knows how serious Kobe is about ...
6 Reasons Why the Magic Will Win in 6
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Unfortunately, there’s not enough time today for me to write the 3,000-word opus on the NBA Finals that I think it deserves, but I want to get my official prediction down, written in stone, here on The Fiend. So here it is: ...
NBA Finals Preview: Orlando Magic vs. Los Angeles Lakers
sports.yahoo.com 6/2/2009 — Two of SB Nation's finest, Josh Tucker from Silver Screen and Roll and Ben Q. Rock from Third Quarter Collapse , breakdown the 2009 NBA Finals, which starts Thursday night in Los Angeles . Silver Screen and Roll : Here is what you need to know ...
NBA Finals: Lakers vs. Magic
pickaxeandroll.com 6/1/2009 —
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Will Carmelo Anthony be rooting on the Lakers in the Finals?
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The NBA season presses on.
Phil Jackson ...
2009 NBA Finals: Lakers-Magic Game 2 Recap
talkhoops.net 6/8/2009 — Los Angeles Lakers 101, Orlando Magic 96 OT The cliché beginning to these game recaps is going to be an Al Pacino, "it's the little inches" speech from Any Given Sunday and then relating it to Courtney Lee's missed alley-oop, lay-up attempt on the final play of regulation that went from an ...
Monday Bullets
myespn.go.com 6/1/2009 — Ricky Rubio tells a Spanish newspaper that if his rights end up with an NBA team that is not headed in the right direction, he will stay in Spain. He also says that a good outcome of the ongoing buyout negotiations with DKV Joventut are key his ...
Behind the Box Score, where the Magic had something to say
sports.yahoo.com 6/10/2009 — Orlando
108, Los Angeles Lakers 104 (Los
Angeles leads series, 2-1)
This is how it goes in close games.
The Magic, to be quick with it, were pretty lucky to be
around in Game 2 as the turnovers mounted and the missed shots piled up ...
NBA Finals - Game 1 recap
probasketball-fans.com 6/5/2009 — Because the Los Angeles Lakers needed 13 games to win the Western Conference title, a 65-win team during the regular season ran on fumes for extended stretches of the NBA Playoffs.
Interview With Neil Paine Part III
thirdquartercollapse.com 6/3/2009 — "It's interesting, when we ran ... if you can recall, in some of the stuff we've been running in simulating the series. The away team, as the team that doesn't have the home-court advantage in the beginning of the series, has a greater probability of winning in 6 games than they do in 7, which ...
Los Angeles Versus Orlando Preview
20secondtimeout.blogspot.com 6/3/2009 — NBA Finals Los Angeles (65-17) vs. Orlando (59-23) Season series: Orlando, 2-0 Orlando can win if …they establish Dwight Howard in the post as a consistent 20-plus ppg threat while also making 9-10 three pointers a game with a three point shooting percentage around the .380-.400 range. Against ...
Do You Believe in (the Orlando) Magic? —
Bleacher Report - NBA 6/1/2009
The SI cover jinks strikes again, as the Cleveland Cavaliers disappointed and fall short of advancing to the Finals to face the Lakers. The anticipation of Kobe vs. LeBron will have to wait until next year, and so will a title for Cleveland.
On ...
Orlando Magic Vs. L.A. Lakers Preview —
Bleacher Report - NBA 6/1/2009
(Above: Stretch, Hedo. You'll need fresh legs.)
We can talk about Dwight Howard's 40 points and 14 rebounds that led the Magic past the Cavaliers' in game five.
Or we can talk about LeBron James giving the Magic the cold shoulder, ...