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Picks for 08/09 NBA season?


Big Kev

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Fondest sports memory I have is 8 a.m. double-header barfine from little bar across from Bourbon Street in Washington Square.

 

Some fooling around during first half, then serious three-way action at half-time, breakfast and relaxation during second half of Lakers-Sixers Game #1 of championship series a few years back.

 

Anyway, you got any thoughts about this year's NBA season, commencing next week? I gotta think Boston again, with maybe an upstart coming out of the West for a change. Portland? OKC? Houston?

 

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I have also been a big Phil Jackson fan

 

I am skeptical. Phil won 9 championships as an NBA coach. The first 6 with Michael Jordan, widely considered to be the greatest player of all time and also with Scottie Pippen rated one of the top 50 players.

 

He also won 3 championships with Shaq, also one of the top 50 and condidered by some to be one of the top 1 - 3 centers of all time and Kobe Bryant, who is certainly one of the most talented players of all time.

 

In the few seasons that he wasn't coaching a team with 2 super, super stars, he hasn't done anything extraordinary.

 

I think any slightly above average NBA coach would have won 6 championships with Jordan and Pippen and 3 with Shaq and Kobe.

 

Now with Jerry West having donated Gasol to the Lakers, Phil is again blessed with a team with great talent. I would like to see Phil coach the Knicks or the Nets. If he could win championships with those teams, I would be impressed.

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I believe that with Andrew Bynum healthy again the Lakers have to be the favorite.

 

My fondest memory was the 2002 World Series. I was in the shower one morning when Troy Glaus hit a home run, and I heard the roar and came running out of there to see what was going on, only to slip on the bathroom flooring and do a headfirst slide into the bedroom.

 

Woke up my bargirl, who obviously had never seen a naked farang spraweled about the floor for anything less than soccer match (if even). The WTF look on her face was priceless.

 

The Angels won too, that helped.

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I've adopted the Lakers but remain a staunch Sixers fan.

 

1983...Moses Malone's almost prophetic 'Fo..fo..fo' prediction. Lakers fans can complain that they had massive injuries that season and they did but we were unstoppable that season. 67-13 during the regular season I think was the best record of the '80s.

 

Andrew Toney...Doctor J...Moses Malone...unstoppable. When won in Boston and beat them in the series, I knew we were not going to be beaten.

 

I hope Lakers do well though. Kobe has matured a lot of as a player but more importantly as a person and is now showing leadership qualities.

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