Happy Monday!
This week on the show we look at a tumultuous week of CBA talks between the NHL & the NHLPA, and we recap the latest UFC event and look forward to some big potential fights for 2013.
In the GABBYs: The OKC Barons, Kobe Bryant, Leo Messi, the UFC, Manny Pacquiao & the LA Lakers. The Punchline this week is the New Orleans Hornets.
The San Antonio Spurs have lost a basketball game. This news is significant because it was the first time April 11 that the Spurs filed to score more points than their opponent.
Let’s put this into perspective. The Spurs won twenty straight basketball games (ten regular season games and ten playoff games) prior to their 102-82 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday night.
Steve Nash (Keith Allison, Wikimedia Commons)
Ok. I’m not a poet. But the headline sounded good and rhythmical.
This is a very special time in Canadian sports history. Phoenix Suns point guard Steve Nash is one of the greatest Canadian athletes of all-time and the guy is simply continuing to play at such an elite level, it is truly remarkable.
This week, Nash was named to his eighth NBA All-Star team. Not bad. But if you take a deeper look at the numbers, only three other players in NBA history have been named an all-star at 38 or older– Michael Jordan, Karl Malone and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
And Nash isn’t just an average all-star. One could argue he is still one of the best players in the game today. He currently leads the NBA with 10.1 assists per game. The statistic is amazing because the Suns don’t have a lot of talent around Nash and are 3.5 games back of Denver, the Los Angeles Lakers and Portland for a playoff spot.
Shaquille O'Neal (Steve Lipofsky, Wikimedia Commons)
One of the greatest basketball players in NBA history has decided to call it a career.
Shaquille O’Neal is one of the most remarkable basketball players I have seen. I would place him second on the list of the best basketball players to have played in the NBA since I first started watching in 1986, just behind Michael Jordan.
During his career, O’Neal won four NBA Championships, three consecutive titles with the Los Angeles Lakers from 2000-2002, and another with the Miami Heat in 2006.
A product of Louisiana State, O’Neal was 7’1″, 325 pounds, and during his prime one of the most intimidating centers the game has ever seen.
A first overall pick of the Orlando Magic, O’Neal singlehandedly led the Magic to their first three series wins and an Eastern Conference Championship in 1995 before being swept by the Houston Rockets.
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