Hello and welcome to another edition of Big Sports News. We’ll be going to the NBA section of BSN Network! A lot today and it can help you with your fantasy needs! So let’s just get a move on, because we got some good stuff in for us! Let’s go! Anderson Varejao The Plain Dailer reports that Anderson Varejao will likely opt out in the final year of his contrac t. No one found out about this until this source was said. With Varejao gone, it will leave $6.2M for the Cavs in cap, according to... Read Full Story
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It should come as no surprise that the entire sports world is reaching out to fans with social media tools. But just how engaged are these groups with the latest in communications technology? Because the National Basketball Association (NBA) is in the thick of its playoffs, we’ll use them as a guinea pig.
There are a handful of NBA teams... Read Full Story
Orlando Magic get their first victory of the NBA final with a 108-104 win over LA Lakers in game three. The top five plays from Orlando Magic's win over LA Lakers in game three of the NBA final. Magic bounce back in NBA Finals NBA highlights - Magic bounce back Dwight Howard and Rashard Lewis each scored 21 points as Orlando defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 108-104 to trail 2-1 in the best-of-seven NBA Finals. Lakers star Kobe Bryant looked set to continue his dominance of the series with 17... Read Full Story
Game one may have been a 25 point blowout, but game two was another story altogether as the Orlando Magic kept up with Kobe Bryant and company and were one missed layup away from heading back to Orlando with the series tied up at one win a piece. Neither the Los Angeles Lakers or the Orlando Magic played well in game two. Both Dwight Howard and Kobe Bryant had off games and to be honest, game two was as sloppy a game I have seen in the playoffs. It was just turnover after turnover for both... Read Full Story
Major television events are continuing to see good results when they integrate social media, especially using services that let people take their social networking identities with them around the web. The latest example is media conglomerate Turner Networks , which recently told AdAge about its experiment in letting users log in and chat to each other using Facebook, MySpace and Twitter while watching the NBA Eastern Conference Finals and last weekend’s NASCAR race, the Pocono 500, on... Read Full Story
Free NBA Picks: Orlando Magic -3.0 -110 betting odds
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The Lakers have been handed this series on a silver platter by an Orlando team that has been marred by mistakes at the worst possible times. To their credit, LA has been very opportunistic in the Finals taking full advantage of the young Magic. Lakers G Kobe Bryant scored 32 points adding eight assists and seven rebounds in Game 4. However, his biggest contribution came as a decoy for G Derek... Read Full Story
Magic making their mark NBA FINALS, GAME 5 Venue: Amway Arena, Orlando Date: 15 June Tip-off: 0100 BST Coverage: Live on Setanta Sports 2, Five television and highlights on the BBC Sport website Magic on the brink after losing Game 4 By Ian Whittell Orlando may be known primarily as the vacation capital of the world, particularly to the thousands of Brits who holiday here every year, but events of the past two months in the NBA are putting the Florida city on the map for altogether different... Read Full Story
He has done it again! Derek Fisher has hit another big shot to win another big game in a big time clutch situation! Robert Horry may be the one Lakers legend with the most clutch shots in the big time playoff game situations, but Derek Fisher is catching up especially hitting two extremely clutch three both in regulation and overtime in the Los Angeles Lakers game four victory in Orlando. These shots weren't as crazy as 0.4 back in the day against San Antonio, but they great shots that had... Read Full Story
The Los Angeles Lakers are atop the basketball world as they defeated the Orlando Magic 99-86 in game five of the NBA Finals to win the 2009 NBA Championship. The victory concludes a Post Season for the Association that showed teams go from invincible to suddenly very vulnerable.
The opposite took place with the team from the “ City Of Angels ” as they struggled in their previous two series against the Houston Rockets and the Denver Nuggets only to wrap this series up in just five games... Read Full Story
Pau Gasol was always questioned about his toughness. Especially in last year’s NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics. He was also questioned about his toughness against point guards! Have you ever seen him dunked by Baron Davis?
He struggled badly last year against Kevin Garnett in the NBA Finals. That series was a lop-sided match-up with ” The Big Ticket “ winning. But Pau Gasol has been struggling a bit this year in the Finals as well when he faces Dwight “ Superman ” Howard.
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