The Unstoppable Heat

The Miami Heat are the currently the best NBA team in the league. Last night Lebron and Dwayne Wade’s lead their team to an 88-102 victory over Jeremy Lin and a good New York Knicks team.  The Miami Heat now hold the best record in the NBA at 27-7 and have won their last 8 games by 12 or more points. This is no surprise to anyone since they are the most talented basketball team in the world! It almost seems unfair that the Miami has three all stars in Lebron James, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh. The speed and skill of this Miami team is just overpowering, making the Miami Heat a favorite to win the NBA Champion ship. It is clearly championship or bust with this Heat team, putting an immense amount of pressure on all players come playoff time.  Through out the playoffs teams playing the Heat will have their work cut out for them in try to slow down this unbelievable hot Miami team.       

Lin-sanity

Right now Jeremy Lin is the biggest story in the NBA. Jeremy Lin, point guard for the New York Knicks, has burst on the NBA scene and become one of the most popular players in the game right now. Jeremy Lin has led the Knicks to 7 straight wins averaging 25 points and 9 assists, in those 7 games. This is amazing considering that at the start of the season Jeremy Lin was the fourth string point guard who came into the league as an undrafted free agent. No one had heard of Jeremy Lin at the start of the season but 3 games ago Lin performed on the biggest stage in the NBA, Madison Square Garden, putting up 38 points and 7 assists against Kobe Bryant and the Los Angles Lakers. Not only has he out played one of the greatest players of all time, Kobe Bryant, he has proven he can finish and win games. Last week at the Air Canada center Lin proved that he is the really deal, when he hit a game winning three pointer against the Raptors with 0.5 seconds left on the clock. That’s two games in a row the raptors have lost on the last shot of the game AGGGHHH! Even though I’m glad to see Jeremy Lin to be successful but why did it have to be on the raptors.

Jeremy Lin is a true underdog story: he is the only Harvard grad playing in the NBA, only American born player of Taiwanese or Chinese descent and was an undrafted player. He is the most popular player in the NBA right now because everyone wants him to succeed and he has taken advantage of the opportunity he was given. This Lin-sanity may be short lived but we’ll all have to wait a see if Lin can keep this up.      

Kobe Bryant "Mr Clutch"

In the closing minutes of a close basketball game is there any other player in the world a team would rather have then Kobe Bryant. Living up to his hype as the best closer in basketball today, maybe even in history, Mr. Bryant silenced the Air Canada center Sunday afternoon during the Toronto Raptors game by hitting the go head basket with 4.2 left on the Clock in a 94-92 Laker victory over the Toronto Raptors. As a loyal fan of Toronto I can’t help but hate and respect Kobe Bryant for his amazing talents.

Twice in the last two years Kobe has stolen the game from the Raptors players and fans by sinking a game-winning basket in the dying seconds of a game. Through out Kobe’s career he has established himself as a dominant player, scorer and champion as he resides in the top 5 scorers of all time, multiply all-star, MVP and Champion. I respect Kobe for his accomplishments as a basketball player and admire his talents but as a Raptors fan I hate Mr. Bryant.