WELCOME BACK CRAIG SAIGER

Fresh of his recent victory over cancer, NBA veteran sideline reported Craig Saiger is finally back with his NBA friends and family and gets to do what he loves.  He was forced to take all of last season off while he was being treated for cancer so I think I speak for everyone out there when I say, Welcome Back Craig.

A RIVALRY IN THE MAKING?

In the NBA basketball world it is no secret that the Golden State Warriors and the Los Angeles Clippers don't like each other.  I mean the two have all the great makings of a great rivalry.  2 of the best point guards in the game today with Steph Curry and Chris Paul.  2 high octane offenses.  And no rivalry is truly a rivalry without some scuffles and we had just that in the recent matchup between these two teams.  After the game, which the Warriors won, a clipper player went out of his way to bump into a warrior player while he was in the middle of doing a post game interview.  Take a look

LINK: https://youtu.be/pf2UDWz2-BI

photo cred: youtube.com

PORTLAND SWINGMAN TEARS ACHILLES

The Portland Trailblazer's Wesley Matthews has suffered a torn achilles and is out for the rest of the season.  Much like Kobe's injury, Matthews was just taking a step to the basket which he has probably done million's of times but this time his achilles gave out on him.  This affects the trailblazers a lot going forward.  They just acquired Aaron Afflalo to help there bench play which is second to last in the league.  This injury means that now he is going to have to start for the blazers which puts there bench production back a lot.  Going through the season lets see how this affects them and see if they can pull out the number 3 seed in the wild wild west.

RAY ALLEN SITTING OUT

Ray Allen has decided to sit out the remainder of this season.   This is terrible news for me because Ray Allen is my favorite player of all time so this sucks to say the least.  A lot of reports where saying that he was just waiting till after all star break to make his decision but he shut all of those reports down.  I really hope this isn't the last we have seen of Jesus Shuttlesworth

HARDEN GETS SUSPENDED

In the recent matchup between two of the MVP favorites James Harden and LeBron James, there was a little bit of extra cirricular activity.  Hardens Rockets won the game agains LeBron and the Cavs but Harden will be suspended for the next game for kicking LeBron man in what we are going to call the "Man Area".  These two have been teammates on the Olympic team before so it's not like they don't like each other but something compelled Harden to do what he did.  Take a look for yourself

LINK:  https://youtu.be/GfYXkSAW1LM

Video Cred: youtube.com

CHRIS BOSH OUT FOR SEASON

Chris Bosh has been diagnosed with blood clots in his lungs and has been ruled out for the remainder of the season.  Bosh played in the All Star game and flew to the Bahamas for a vacation where he reportedly started to not feel well.  After further evaluation by the Miami Heat doctors they determined what would be the fatal season ending injury.  My prayers go out to him and his family

RICK CARLISLE VS RAJON RONDO

The Mavericks newly acquired starting point guard Rajon Rondo got into a public shouting match during a game with his head coach Rick Carlisle.  Carlisle was seen coming all the way onto the court and called a timeout which seemed to be because he was mad about something that Rondo had done. The two continued to yell at each other through the timeout.  After the game, which resulted in a Mavs lose, neither party spoke that much about the incident, only saying that they had moved on.  Rondo was suspended for the next game by his coach.

Link to argument:    https://youtu.be/6mO48ds7q0U

Video Cred: youtube.com

RUSSELL WESTBROOK IS A MONSTER!!!!

Russell Westbrook has been on a triple double tear this last week.  His running mate Kevin Durant has been out with a toe injury and while most of the time that might mean bad news, Thunder fans still have Russ and he has not let them down.  In the 9 games since the all star break, Westbrook has averaged a triple double averaging 34.3 points, 11.4 assists, and 10.2 rebounds.  And he is doing this all while Kevin Durant is recovering.  Pretty impressive