The Super Big Ultimate 2012-13 NBA Preview- Part Two

Welcome to Part Two of my first annual Super Big Ultimate NBA Preview! Can I get you something, maybe a Pabst Blue Ribbon? I've got a taste for living, I'm thinking cold blue ribbon.

Now I know what some people are thinking, "holy crap, I'm only one sentence in and already using the link thing again". To those people, buzz off, Buzz Killington! I like the link thing and I am gonna abuse the link thing like Billy Bob Thornton abused the words "I do." Second off, let's get things rolling with the Western Conference, shall we.

The West is more spread out this season than the East. Where the East is very top heavy, Miami and Boston lead a conference with a huge belly of average teams and a handful of teams that I could probably come off the bench for. Out west, it's a little different. The top is definitely defined, the Lakers and Thunder and I'll even take arguments for the Spurs sit atop the conference, but it is no dramatic drop to the second tier of teams. Also, the teams at the bottom are nowhere near as abysmal as Charlotte. Sorry Bobcat fans, you got dissed in Part One and Two. If that doesn't persuade Michael Jordan to try and snag LeBron in 2014, I don't know what will. 

The Super Big Ultimate 2012-13 NBA Preview Part One

We're in for a wild year in the NBA, and despite the huge expectations for basketball in Los Angeles, are the Lakers a lock for the championship banner?

The Dwight Howard phenomena came to an end in August when through a four team trade involving the Magic, Sixers, and Nuggets, the Lakers ended up with the big prize of the summer. Adding the league's best big man to a starting five that already included Pau Gasol, a solid and dependable guy down low, Steve Nash, arguably the league's best point guard of the past decade, Kobe Bryant, arguably the league's best player of the past decade, and Ron Artest, the comedic relief, came with enormous expectations. And rightfully so. This starting five, on paper, has been compared from everything to the Kobe-Shaq Machine of the early 2000's to the Dream Team to the lineup from Live 8. 

If Howard can acknowledge that, and mesh well with four other superstars, than this team is dangerously dangerous. If not, the Lakers could be the biggest disappointment since that movie that only made $100,000 dollars this past summer. You didn't hear about that? Well, I guess it's not really a disappointment than. (Regardless, check this out: Oogieloves! More like Oogieflop! ) Biggest disappointment since Eli Manning having two more Super Bowl rings than you do? There we go, that hits home. 

This, of course, is just one of so many storyline from a great NBA offseason. Can the Heat repeat? Can Andrew Bynum make the next step to being "the" guy? Can Tim Duncan win one more? Has the Grizzlies window closed? Is Omer Asik really that good? I'm biting my nails waiting for the answers, hbu? Nvm.

Without further ado, here is my full preview of where teams will fall in the conference and of how the playoffs will fall, and who knows. There might be some coverage of things like the presidential elecetion, MLB playoffs and possibility of Arrested Development finally coming out with a movie. Who knows.

Week 4 Power Rankings

After four full weeks of football, what have we learned? Well, we learned that the Arizona Cardinals might be for real as they are a perfect 4-0, one of three teams left with a zero in the loss column. We learned that Tom Brady is a hilarious guy to watch curse, and Wes Welker agrees. The video can be seen here, and by can be seen I mean watch this video right now: Tom Brady sure does curse!