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i asked kyashi’s permission to go home early 2 days before the USA Greece men’s basketball game, so obviously i am looking forward to catching this game on tv.  partly because this is the latest version of a usa team with nba players, which anyone would agree always dishes out some flashy highlight plays, and partly because i’ve read a lot of comments that jason kidd is already too old to be considered an exceptional player. (continue reading…)

yey, just few more days before the nba season starts!

hehe not a cause for too much excitement really. but with the long off-season and the fact that one can’t even see the game highlights of the fiba americas tournament here in japan via nba.com, it makes one look forward to the days when sopcast broadcast of the games become available.

i’m a fan of the nets, obviously (although some argued that i’m a fan of jason kidd and not the team, since i’ve switched rooting for the teams he’s been traded to, but hey, it’s a team game, you can’t just cheer one person to succeed!). this might be the first time in a long while that new jersey will be coming into the season healthy (at least the starters, with marcus williams being sidelined for a few weeks because of surgery). (there is no doubt) i hope that the team will get out with a fast start, as opposed to the last three years were they went below 0.500 in the first months of the season.

i don’t want to look to far ahead, but i can see the nets proving the ever net-basher john hollinger wrong when he said the nets ain’t contenders no more (sometimes he’s got a point, but he ranks the team and its players too low that you’d have to say there’s something personal involved). as long as the team sticks to their game plan (lfrank is really an under-appreciated coach), and everything remains harmonious (i think it was new net jamaal magliore who said that the team’s chemistry and locker room camaraderie is beyond what he has had so far), the second round, conference finals and even the championship series is very much attainable.

lots of things happened around the league – the GAP in boston, kobe’s drama, marion and ak, etc – i guess everybody’s waiting how these things will turn out. just a few more days of waiting left!

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speaking of basketball, guys might want to check out our online simulation league. just ignore the front page, and use the dropdown lists to traverse the site. anyone interested in joining the kumbalerfu basketball league (yes you read right, but just say kbl for short), just contact me or register at kiven’s forum.