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2013 NBA Finals Game 6 Recap/Game 7 Outlook
The NBA Playoffs 66 year history is marked by a nominal plethora of thumbnails and snapshots, names and images, that resonate with basketball aficionados each and every post-season, collecting like dust that rises and rises each year. Sometimes these images haunt, sometimes they dazzle, but all of them stick, as if an adhesive placed upon the cerebral cortex of each and every fan who witnesses the magnitude of each moment, of each second, of each game. Go ahead and add Ray Allen to the list…
2013 NBA Finals Game 2 Recap
Arguably one of the most important and least discussed factors of basketball in the playoffs is the ability of a team to go on a run, to find a rhythm so potent and relentless that the opponent has no other choice than to just accept the thrashing and move on upon its release. There are only a handful of teams that can do it currently: you saw it with Jordan’s Bulls, Kobe and Shaq’s Lakers, Durant’s and Westbrook’s Thunder, and of course the reigning champions. …
2013 NBA Finals: Game 1 Recap
If you read my 2013 NBA Finals Outlook, you’ll note that Athena struck first Thursday night. Taking the lead late in the 3rd for their first lead since early in the 1st, the San Antonio Spurs looked like the more mature and experienced team the rest of the way, taking Game 1 92-88 and with it, the always important home court from the Heat. With the exception of the 4th quarter, the Miami Heat played a solid game, with LeBron obviously making his mark…
2013 NBA Finals Miami Heat versus San Antonio SpursOutlook
In Greek mythology, Zeus is known to have indulged in many erotic escapades leading to the birthing of a multitude of gods and goddesses that still have their stories told in: college classrooms, backyards, and cinematic theatres to this day. Two such offspring are Athena and Ares, Athena being the goddess of military strategy (intelligence, inspiration, arts and crafts, etc…) and Ares being the god of war. Athena is meant to be the brains, Ares-the brawn. Athena represents discipline; Ares symbolizes violence and tenacity towards…