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So I whipped out my top 5 stories from the first half of the season.

I went:

5. The Knicks
4. Injuries
3. Disappointments
2. Surprises
1. The Celtics


Full write up here:
http://lebasketbawl.blogspot.com/2008/0 ... ories.html

What do you guys got?

The knicks are a better story than New Orleans or Portland?

The Portland Trailblazers, Jamario Moon story...

farzi wrote:The knicks are a better story than New Orleans or Portland?

no way, portland ranks #2 in my surprises section.

No one knows who Moon is.

1. heat least of the east
2. portland's rise
3. hornets and cp3's rise
4. the knicks
5. the celtics

AdamTheGreek wrote:No one knows who Moon is.

the guy averages 8 points a game...he's not making anyone's list until he wins the dunk contest?

But see, I don't consider New Orleans a story because we knew they'd be this good after last year. You can talk about Peja's return.

What's so surprising about the Knicks? Any fool could have predicted that they would suck this year. I guess you can call the Isiah Thomas situation a story of the year, but it's not really a basketball story.

1. Portland
2. The Lakers leading the West
3. Washington winning without Arenas
4. Boston off to a near-historic start
5. Hornets and CP3

dwight howard and kid

i had to consider the knicks a top story, they haven't left our tv screens since this summer.

You have to be more specific than "Surprises" and "Dissapointments" imo.

Im sure you have the Knicks up there at #1 because you see them as either a surprise or a disappointing team, no?

1. Portland Trailblazers
Youngest team in the NBA, #1 pick goes out for the season and they win 13 in a row and in the thick of the western conference playoff picture.

2. Boston Celtics
How they've gelled so far this season and especially on the defensive end of the floor.

3. New Orleans Hornets
CP3's emergence as the best PG in the NBA so far, Peja's return and them being one of the contenders in the WCF.

4. Miami Heat
A Shaquille O'neal, D-Wade, Pat Riley team with guys like Haslem, Davis and Williams dead last in the Eastern Conference.

5. The Lakers?
Everybody had them as a fringe playoff team, yet they are atop of the Western powers.

Trixx, If you follow his link he goes into more detail.

The Utah Jazz

Phil_2.0 wrote:Trixx, If you follow his link he goes into more detail.

Yup. I missed the link the first time through, but even after reading his explanation regarding the Knicks, that seems like it can fall into the "disappointing" category to me.

Either way, no biggie, and I do agree with most of your points kellex.

I'll go with 5 actual stories rather than categories of stories.

1. Boston's back.
2. Portland already good, rest of the league officially scared for the next decade.
3. The Lakers, after everything, turns out they're pretty good.
4. Miami completely collapses. Good thing they got a ring when they had the chance.
5. The Hornets are good again, but New Orleans seems preoccupied.

I left the Knicks off because that story as written years ago.

TMACFORMVP wrote:1. Portland Trailblazers
Youngest team in the NBA, #1 pick goes out for the season and they win 13 in a row and in the thick of the western conference playoff picture.

2. Boston Celtics
How they've gelled so far this season and especially on the defensive end of the floor.

3. New Orleans Hornets
CP3's emergence as the best PG in the NBA so far, Peja's return and them being one of the contenders in the WCF.

4. Miami Heat
A Shaquille O'neal, D-Wade, Pat Riley team with guys like Haslem, Davis and Williams dead last in the Eastern Conference.

5. The Lakers?
Everybody had them as a fringe playoff team, yet they are atop of the Western powers.

Nice, didn't look at this before posting, but we have the same 5 teams.

Trixx wrote:-= original quote snipped =-



Yup. I missed the link the first time through, but even after reading his explanation regarding the Knicks, that seems like it can fall into the "disappointing" category to me.

Either way, no biggie, and I do agree with most of your points kellex.

i just didnt want to call the knicks a disappointment, because my hopes were not very high for them. not until crazy man thomas is gone!

nate33 wrote:What's so surprising about the Knicks? Any fool could have predicted that they would suck this year. I guess you can call the Isiah Thomas situation a story of the year, but it's not really a basketball story.

1. Portland
2. The Lakers leading the West
3. Washington winning without Arenas
4. Boston off to a near-historic start
5. Hornets and CP3

I like this list.

To address the Miami situation that has been brought up a few times in this thread, it really isn't that much of a surprise. While I didn' think they were going to be as bad as they are this year, I didn't expect them to make the playoffs.