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Opening night in the NBA is finally here and we have some excellent games to start up with. Pleaae keep all discussion of Non-Wizards games in this thread.

Miami at Boston
7:30pm
TNT

Houston at Los Angeles
10:30pm
TNT

Phoenix at Portland
10:00pm

Celts vs Heat, what a way to start the season.

I hope Shaq falls on Lebron's knee




Yes, I really do wish it would happen. I would die laughing.

@ Shaq, he can barely dunk anymore.

These BS tech calls are going to kill basketball, they will have to go during the collective bargaining.

It's only the first quarter of the first game, but all one-on-one for the Heat. They really need a PG, although a healthy Mike Miller would help some. Boston looks much better as they have Rondo to run the show.

Damn, Boston is going to be crazy good when they start rollin.

Damn, Miami getting run outta the building.

Lol at last year's Heat scoring 15 pts as their lowest quarter points, but the "Super" team can only manage 9.

Steve Blake lead the Laker comeback and sealed the game with a 3-pointer. Blake was never valued by EJ & Ernie, what a pity.
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This Heat/Sixers game is ugly. Something like 11 combined turnovers so far.

Just shows you how dumb our Orginization is. Some of it is him just coming back from injury but they already said that Andy & Hickson will start. All we ever hear about is AJ being the greatest leader of men, even though he was a selfish black hole who never had anything positive to say about our young guys. His shot selection was horrible and he always pouted when being benched but no one ever said anything. If he was here right now he would be starting, playing 40mpg, being a black hole while scoring 20 meaningless points, and getting torched on Defense. At the same time Blatche would be getting 15min one night and 5 the next while we struggle to make the playoffs at best. Man we are dumb. Im glad that stuff is finally starting to end

wow Celtics lost to the Cavs.

Cavs benefiting from the Celts being on a b2b or are they a surprise team? Look how well you can do if you simply have AJ coming off the bench.

The Knicks getting good value for their 2nd -round pick, they plug-in Landry Fields right into the starting lineup and and they get 30 solid minutes from him tonight.

closg00 wrote:Cavs benefiting from the Celts being on a b2b or are they a surprise team? Look how well you can do if you simply have AJ coming off the bench.

The new coach didn't hurt either. I only saw part of the game, but it's nice to be led by someone that doesn't look like a deer in the headlights.

closg00 wrote:The Knicks getting good value for their 2nd -round pick, they plug-in Landry Fields right into the starting lineup and and they get 30 solid minutes from him tonight.

That's got to be pretty cool, a 2nd rounder starting in his first game and winning on the road.

This Blake Griffin guy, he's not so bad.

MJG wrote:This Blake Griffin guy, he's not so bad.

I had no idea he was so athletic. He really might be the ROY fave after all (assuming his knee holds up).

Damn, Blake Griffin....quickness, hops, and a motor. I like his game.

I hope he holds up thru the season -- he gives me a reason to watch *Clippers* games.

It's going to be a good battle between Wall and Griffin for Rookie of the Year.

The kid is looking amazing. Instant star. All my questions are already answered. He really matured nicely. Looks like a seasoned vet already.

Looks like he really raised his game while he was out.

The NBA is going to be fun to watch this year.

Bad time to expect to much from Miami since there are both vet talented teams and younger talented teams. I think there are going to be several teams challenging the establishment. Should be a great year or basketball.

Terrible time for a lock out.

closg00 wrote:Cavs benefiting from the Celts being on a b2b or are they a surprise team? Look how well you can do if you simply have AJ coming off the bench.

What is really surprising is they also won without Mo Williams either. While they do not have a lot of offensive firepower, they have at least a solid defender at every starting position and they made fewer mistakes than the Celtics. I would like to see at least 3 or 4 more games to think they can be decent this season, but it looks a lot better than I expected for the Cavs.