So, with many of the NBA’s biggest allpro stars, Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, Kevin Durant, Tony Parker, and several others, signing to play overseas, fans are not going to be willing to come to the arena, and watch games without these star athletes on the floor. Plus, with the lockout taking place, everything is bound to go up in price when the season does eventually start up, if it does, in order to compensate for the lost revenues they would have been taking in at pre season and early season exhibition games. So, not only are fans going to be looking at higher prices for tickets, and not getting to see the stars they want to watch on the court, but food, drinks, and souveneirs are also going to increase at the arena.

Additionally, parking will likely go up in prices, as will all other costs a fan incurs when going to a game. Since many arenas and owners are trying to make up for the millions lost during the missed games, they are going to take it out on the fans by increasing the cost of everything. So, if it wasn’t already expensive enough to go to a game, now fans are going to bite the bullet, and see the increases in costs if they still decide to go to games, if the lockout does come to an end. Plus, some of the NBA’s greatest players will not even be playing on the court, so fans are going to miss out on the action they are looking for as well.

So, whether or not the season will start up, or take place at all in the 2011 – 2012 season is yet to be seen. But, for fans who are going to be attending games, you can expect to miss out on some big names that are not going to be on the court, as they have already signed to play in an overseas league, and you can expect to see an increase in the costs of everything at the arena, from parking, to buying a soda and hot dog.

Both defeats have arrived since the Spurs have Duncan resting on the bench indefinitely to heal a sprained left ankle he endured versus the Warriors on Monday. He didn’t come with the team on this 3 game journey away from home which concludes Sunday. Ginobili has helped pick up the slack on the attack for Duncan’s absence, putting in 23.0

points the previous 3 matchups. Tiago Splitter started in Duncan’s spot once again Friday & got eleven points & 7 boards, not far off the mark from the All Star forward’s numbers. With Duncan skipping Sunday’s matchup, it will be the 2nd consecutive trip to play the Grizzlies that the Spurs are making beat-up. Tony Parker rested on the sidelines during a 109 – 93 defeat to the Grizzlies on March 1st. The Spurs additionally had difficulties with turn-overs in that matchup, giving up 22.

The last occasion the Spurs dropped straight contests were January 4th & 5th, however they answered by picking up their following 8. They have not lost 3 consecutive since January 20th to 25th, 2010. The Spurs, who have won 2 of 3 versus the Grizzlies, might encounter 8th place Memphis ( 40 – 33 ) during the 1st round of the post-season.

The Grizzlies had their 3 game winning run broken by a 99 – 96 defeat at the United Center vs. the Bulls on Friday. Mike Conley bricked a three point shot as the clock ran out. The Grizzlies have kept their past 3 competitors to an average of 83.3 points. The defeat came hours following the club found out Rudy Gay, on the sidelines since February 15th, will undergo year – ending surgery to fix his partially dislocated left shoulder. The Grizzlies are 9 – 7 since he got injured. While he has combined for only thirteen boards during the previous 2 matchups, Zach Randolph, putting in 12.4 points, had twenty-five points & twenty rebounds during the victory against the Spurs the previous month.

The Grizzlies, who play 6 of their following 7 matchups on their home court, have a 1.5 game advantage over 9th – place Rockets.

Even with his club’s big leads in the division & conference, Ginobili stated the Spurs starters may get only 997 1 or 2 evenings off

during the last 3 1/2 weeks of the regular season. The Spurs’ haven’t had an issues versus the up-tempo Warriors ( 30 – 40 ) lately. The 25 game stretch on their home court is the League’s lengthiest active streak versus one competitor, & the Spurs have picked up eleven consecutive within the series. Duncan participated only eighteen minutes during a 111 – 94 victory against the Warriors at the AT&T Center on December 8th, completing having 8 points & 5 boards. Parker, at the same time, had nineteen points to direct 6 players in double digits. DeJuan Blair was 1 of those with fifteen points & thirteen boards.

The Warriors got a personal best 8 three pointers & thirty-one points from Reggie Williams in that matchup, however Stephen Curry sprained his right ankle during the 2nd period. Curry had been kept to eleven points on 4 of 12 from the floor Sunday when the Warriors endured their 4th straight loss & 4th consecutive away from home, 101 – 73 at the American Airlines Center vs. the Mavs.

The Warriors, putting in 103.1 points, had only ten during the final period versus the Mavs & bricked 24 of 33 attempts during the 2nd half. The 73 points had been the club’s 2nd worst scoring total this year.

Ginobili has put in 20.5 points on 54.0 % from the floor during his previous 4 matchups versus the Warriors. The Spurs have additionally restricted the Warriors’ Monta Ellis to 18.7 points, 5.7 beneath his team best average, on 34.8 % from the floor.

Chicago is trying to carry on their progression having a 7th consecutive win to sweep the 4 game year series with the Wizards ( 16 – 49 ), which have dropped 4 consecutive overall & are 1 – 29 away from home. A win would provide the Bulls a 1/2 game advantage over the Celtics within the Eastern Conference. The Bulls have worked hard on their home court, going 29 – 4 & permitting a average of 85 while winning 19 of 20 at the United Center. Utah broke the Bulls’ run of nineteen consecutive home court matchups of allowing less than the century mark.

The Wizards have put in 84.3 points & put in 39.6 % versus the Bulls overall this year. With hurt starters Rashard Lewis who has an injured knee & Andray Blatche who has an injured shoulder, will probably

on the sidelines for this game, the Wizards might discover it even harder to get points versus 1 of the NBA’s best defensive squads. The Wizards have been out-scored by a combined 67 points the previous 3 matchups. Not having Blatche & Lewis, the Wizards put in 39.4 % during a 116 – 89 home court defeat to the Thunder on Monday.

Trevor Booker got fourteen points with thirteen boards while first-year John Wall put in fourteen points with 7 rebounds, 5 dishes & 4 steals. Wall has twenty-five points & 16 dishes in 2 matchups versus All Star Derrick Rose & the Bulls.

Rose & Deng both had twenty-one points in the Bull’s 105 – 77 victory at Washington on February 28th.

Rose, putting in 25.5 points the previous 6 matchups versus the Wizards, got 26 on Saturday as the Bulls put in 52.6 % & established a club record by making 18 of 32 three point shots.

Carlos Boozer has performed a large role in his 1st year for the Bulls, however is anticipated to a 3rd consecutive matchup having a sprained left ankle. The Bulls are 13 – 7 not having Boozer, who wants to come back this week as per coach Tom Thibodeau.

Clearly Orlando Magic have been better this time. Winning 89 to 75 would Los Angeles is a major thing. I believe Paul Castle has something to explain now. I mean he is a player that is capable of doing much better if hockey game last night. I’m not even DAT he just blew it off, he didn’t seem to be interested in playing at all. Which, given the state at this current contract is quite understandable. The further but lets get back to the game. Howard scored 31 points and 19 of that happened in the second half. Okay the first one must have been really boring though.

After living in Orlando were cheering. I’m not surprised they have just didn’t want the best teams in the NBA. And in a press conference after the game in the community stated that they wanted to prove to themselves that they are able to do it. Now they know they can.

But the worst thing to me was that they didn’t seem to be worried about it at all. It is as if they didn’t care that they have just lost to one of the medic ore the ams and that they are one of the best in the Association.

Does it mean something? I don’t know. I hope it doesn’t but it might as well be that they no longer care about their position and that soon we will see a lot of players being traded off to other teams, or retiring (although I can’t see that happening to be honest).

And what’s even better, the game was a massive comeback for the Hornets. The New Orleans team wasn’t performing their best recently but last nights heroic game by Chris Paul and Marcus Thornton, amongst others, definitely had made their coach, Monty Williams to rethink what he feels about his teams future.

And yes, I think his thoughts were not of a happy camper. With the teams recent performance he definitely needed a comeback like this to shut the mouth of everyone who might have had putting dark thoughts into his head.

And it is best illustrated in his post game interview, and especially one particular sentence he said. He mentioned that in situations like this all you can do is to thank the Lord and go on play some more.

And so they did.

New Orleans Hornets have officially beaten Memphis Grizzlies 103-102. An almost a tie game! Well, in fact it was and it was in the overtime that Chris Paul’s 3 pointer had saved his team and extended their winning streak to 6 games.

Now they are facing a tough challenge following up on the game. They didn’t have it easy throughout the entire game and seemed to have been saved by the 3 pointer only. Now they need to shape up and make sure that any other game they are going to play from now on is not going to be a close tie. They really have to push themselves forward in order to keep their winning streak going.

With 34 points by Dwayne Wade, 25 from LeBron James (not to mention his 9 assists) Miami were able to defeat the Bucks 101 to 89 in their nineteenth victory in twenty games they played!

It was obvious from watching the game that they usually enjoy a different, more relaxed type of a game, however, they have also shown that they can perform well under pressure.

Other points for the victors were scored by Chris Bosh (19 and 12 rebounds), notable in the game how he got his wings in the last quarter not doing anything special during the initial three.

Tuesdays game was the last time for another 14 days that Miami played at their home pitch. Now it’s time for them to see what is going to happen to their 11 victories away when they play Milwaukee this Friday.

Wade, speaking on behalf of his team mentioned his teams feelings towards their forthcoming opponent. The team knows that Milwaukee has beaten up some really good teams already, they may not be as big as Miami but certainly can show up a great attitude when needed.

Naturally, and as mentioned by Wade too, the Bucks are not the greatest team and certainly have played many games they would like to soon forget, fouling Wade two times would probably be one of the things they will regret when the two teams meet again.

Or that time when Skles tried to get the referees attention and collided “as if by accident” with Arroyo, the Heats guard, which only earn him his second technical and not an ejection from the pitch, lucky for him.

Wade’s opponents come to their game with the Bucks with 5-11 in their away games but as I already mentioned, some of those victories suggest that they can do a good game.

Let’s face it, the lifestyle they live as players demands capital and it is a known thing that more than half of the players lose all their money only few years after retiring from the professional play. Many do nothing about it, however a small group of players build side businesses and thus protects their post-career income. Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson, who both build successful ventures outside of their sports careers, seem to be the inspiration to many.

One of the good examples of current NBA stars running a side business is Lebron James. Back in 2006 he created a marketing company called LRMR Marketing and has already signed some big names to his books. One of the first clients he managed to win was Ten Ginn, a colleague sportsman from the 49ers from San Francisco.

Another star taking a leap into the business world is Steve Nash, a player with two NBA Most Valuable Player Awards. Only recently he formed a capital venture company Consigliere that intends to invest money in startups and help them off the ground. But that’s not all, he also owns a line of fitness clubs, a film production company and a vitamin product label let alone his social media endavours with Apoko.

Another NBA player involved in the film industry is Baron Davis. He owns a film production company called Too Easy Entertainment and works with some top class writers on his productions. Apart from his ventures into film industry he also owns Chameleon, a music production firm.

But not all players venture into the world of entertainment. Anthony Johnson, a player with a degree in administration runs a business designing and producing stained glass doors.

Trying for their 1st straight victories during more than 3 weeks, Charlotte go for their 4th consecutive win against Philadelphia on Saturday evening in The Wachovia Center.

Winning by 7 having 1:23 remaining in regular time Friday, Charlotte (7 – 12) very much needed extra time to defeat the Nets 91 – 84 on their home floor.

returning from a 1 game suspension for crossing the line with the officials during a 104 – 101 defeat at the Bucks the previous Saturday, Stephen Jackson put in a club best twenty-five & nailed 4 from the stripe in the last minute of extra time to assist The Bobcats prevent a high for the year , tying 3rd consecutive loss .

Bobcats coach Larry Brown is going to take the victory, the 1,096th of his career, however the 70 year old Hall of Famer was not excited to see 2 clubs put up a combined 33.9 % committing 36 turn-overs 22 coming from his aateam.

Leading his club to the 76ers, where he coached from 1997 to 2003, Brown will attempt to assist Charlotte break a 4 game away from home losing skid.

The Eastern Conference last in the League 76ers (5 – 14) had been good on their way to a best for the year 3rd consecutive win Friday in Atlanta, however coach Doug Collins’ club had only 1 field goal during the last 8:45 & were out-scored 21 – 3 to finish a 93 – 88 defeat .

While Philadelphia have lost 8 consecutive away from home, they will attempt to pick up a victory their 4th straight at Wells Fargo Center to being a 4 game home-stand.

The 76ers’s previous 4 – 0 streak on their home floor had been March 11th to 25th 2009.

Philadelphia they had been losing by as many as twenty-nine points in Charlotte’ the previous trip, a 102 – 87 Bobcats win March 10th.

Gerald Wallace had been leading Charlotte sinking twenty-eight points in that game as Jackson put in twenty-four grabbing ten boards.

Stephen Jackson will probably be matched up with second year guard Jodie Meeks of the 76ers, who made 1st career start Friday in place of number 2 all-round pick Evan Turner.

76ers best scorer Elton Brand, who got sixteen points and a best for the year 14 rebounds Friday, put in 15.0 & 10.0 the previous year as these clubs split 2 games Wachovia Center .

The Bobcats has picked up 6 of 8 against Philadelphia all-round since Brown took over in 2008 – 2009.

He was born in Brooklyn in 1963.. Nearly right after his delivery his parents relocated to Wilmington, exactly where he discovered his enthusiasm for basketball. He frequently played against his sibling, Larry, and often and this is actually quite funny, lost. Nevertheless, this particular thing motivated his aggressive push, leading to exercise tougher as well as enhance abilities.