The biggest upset in NBA history??

The biggest upset in NBA history could happen in the next two hours!

Last year when Golden State shocked the world, a lot of people that knew basketball called it. Though what we could see this afternoon is as big as it gets. Boston won 66 games, was heralded as the new beast of the East since the big trade for Garnett and most favored this team make the NBA Finals, or even win the title.

The Atlanta Hawks won 37 games. The Hawks would be the 12th seed in the Western Conference based on that record. Many thought it was a joke that they were in the playoffs with that record, "because it's the East." At this point, none of it matters, the Hawks are in Game 7 against the NBA's best team (record wise).

Nobody expected this series to go five games, or even six games, let alone seven games.

Now the young Hawks are in Boston, have a chance to make history and prove that with hard work, anything can happen in the playoffs.

Well, the game is halfway into the first quarter with the Celtics on top 12-8, on that note, more later...

Kevin Durant is the Rookie of the Year

I think we all saw it coming, especially when we heard that Greg Oden wouldn't play this year.

Kevin Durant won the NBA's Rookie of the Year Award yesterday, and defeated Al Horford by a pretty big margin (90 first place votes to Horford's 30), Luis Scola was third with 5 first place votes.

Durant put in 20.3 points per game, 4.4 rebounds per game and 2.4 assists per game.

Durant will only get better, he was the focus of that team and had tonsof weight on his shoulders. That said, I agree that you have to give him his props and let Al Horford know that even though he didn't get the award, his team is in Game Six against Boston tonight and Kevin Durant will be playing video games at his place today.

Game Six Anyone?

Tonight's NBA Playoffs schedule has three game sixes on tap for us tonight.

Cleveland @ Washington @ 7pm ESPN2

Boston @ Atlanta 8pm ESPN

Houston @ Utah 10:30pm ESPN

I really hope Washington can push it to a Game 7 tonight, we need at least one Game 7and I think a Washingtn/Cleveland could be the most exciting. Agent 0 is done for, and it's up to Caron Butler and Antawn Jamison to do what they've done all season; play like All-Stars and lead that team.

T-Mac has carried that team to some record setting proportions since Yao went down, and now is the moment of truth for the Rockets. They'redown 3-2, playing in Utah and T-Mac has NEVER MADE IT OUT OF THE FIRST ROUND.

As much as I'd like to see Atlanta pull it out, I assume Boston will close it out tonight. The Hawks ride that home crowd who hadn't seen a playoff game since the last millennium, but I think tonight is the end for Atlanta, hopefully I'm wrong.

The Jay-Z diss to DeShawn Stevenson

This Cavs/Wizards series has been the most entertaining yet. All of the side storylines have been crazy.

Here is the Jay-Z diss to DeShawn Stevenson "Blow the Whistle."

The fact that Jay-Z stooped to this level is absolutely silly. Jay-Z is a 39 year old man, a hip-hop mega star and this guy is going to be jocking LeBron James like that?!?!

He's acting like LeBron is Michael Jordan.

Note to everyone: LEBRON JAMES HAS NO MVP AWARDS AND NO NBA CHAMPIONSHIPS!

Jay-Z, get off LeBron.

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING VIDEO HAS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE.

Rodman Arrested

Dennis Rodman skipped a ceremony a few weeks ago that was honoring him as one of the 30 greatest Detroit Pistons of all-time.

Now Dennis is allegedly out hitting women.

LOS ANGELES (AP)—Former NBA star Dennis Rodman has been arrested for allegedly hitting a woman at a Century City hotel.

Los Angeles police say the 46-year-old Rodman was arrested Wednesday night after officers answered a report of a domestic dispute.

Officer Sara Fayden says they learned Rodman had struck a woman, who suffered injuries to her arm.

Rodman was jailed for investigation of felony domestic violence and freed on $50,000 bail early Thursday.

Please someone, we need to get Dennis Rodman help. There is no excuse to hitting a woman, no excuse. Rodman has more problems than this and hopefully someone can talk some sense into this guy.

Back in Business

Outside the NBA has decided that we need to go back up on the web.

We're back, and we're not going anywhere!!

We apologize for our absence during such a crazy time in the NBA, but now we need you to comeback and continue to support us.

CLOSING DOWN.

I would like to thank everyone for coming to this site over the past few months. I loved doing this site, it was a passion of mine and something I really wanted to continue to work on and build up. Unfortunately, I am going to have to end things here.

I am trying to start my career in other directions and this site is a conflict of interest with my future plans and it isn't ethical on that part to keep this site up and running. I've put a lot of work into this site over the past couple months, but unfortunately I have to put things to an end.

So to the people who have came to this site and supported what I was doing, thank you so much. I will keep the posts up for a couple weeks possibly, but soon will pull everything.

Thank you so much.

Enjoy the playoffs.

I love this game.

On Hiatus, until March 18

I may have time to update in the next two days, but odds are the site will be on hiatus until Tuesday.

On that note, it doesn't mean you should stop checking us out. There are tons of archives that you probably have never seen or read, dating back to April of 2007, so check them out and waste some quality time with us here at Outside The NBA.

See you all Tuesday.

22 Straight: Rockets dominate Lakers in fourth quarter.

22* and counting...

The Rockets should be thrilled and very proud of themselves. This is unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable.

FIRST PLACE IN THE WEST!

Rafer Alston saw what Jarvis Hayes did for the Pistons today and decided he could do better. Alston hit eight three pointers and scored a career-high 31 points today on the Lakers. The Rockets had a sluggish third quarter, but dominated the Lakers in the fourth quarter, notching the 104-92 victory.

Shane Battier was incredible on Kobe Bryant. Bryant scored 24 points on 11-33 shooting. Luis Scola continues his growth as a top rookie in the league adding 13 points and 11 rebounds, Bobby Jackson came off the bench to score 19 points.

Tracy McGrady didn't score in the first half, but the Rockets still had a 15 point lead at the the half. McGrady finished with 11 points on only 4-16 shooting, yet the Rockets still get the victory.

*Pau Gasol did not play for the Lakers today, because of injury.

Once again the Rockets played a short handed top team, but at this point, it doesn't matter. The Rockets are being gunned for, and they keep winning. The Rockets have pulled off the second best streak in league history, and Boston is coming to Houston on Tuesday. After Boston, the Rockets go on the road against the Hornets, Warriors and Suns. I assume the streak will be over during one of these games, but I've been wrong before.

Stay tuned NBA fans, we're seeing history in the making and the Rockets are playing at a dominating level against every team in their path.

Jeff Van Gundy said this today, and now you have to take some serious consideration, where is Tracy McGrady on the MVP list? As of right now and this point, you might have to say he's in the top three of four, and maybe higher. We all know who my MVP is, but in two weeks, let's see who's on top of the West, then we can talk. If the Rockets are on top of the West in two weeks, I'm going with McGrady.

Jarvis Hayes!?!?!

Detroit Pistons reserve forward Jarvis Hayes came in today and had a riot on national TV. Hayes scored 29 points, tying a career-high. He hit seven three pointers, setting a career-high, and he shot 10-13 from the field. Hayes was the man for the Pistons today coming off the bench, and the Pistons beat up on the Hornets 105-84.

Hayes is averaging 6.5 ppg on the season and his production and minutes have dropped considerably since the beginning of the season.

Hayes is a chucker, a guy that likes to shoot the rock when he gets it and he's very streaky, today was one of those days. I don't expect to see more games similar to this from Hayes this year. If Hayes can somehow find a way to give them 40-50% of his effort today on a consistent basis, it will make the Pistons a much more serious contender.

So to the announcers; don't call this guy Hayes "The Microwave" just yet.

Readers speak...Kobe is MVP

I'm not going to deny you of your right to vote, and shoot your opinions down. It'd be nice if Kobe finally had an MVP trophy, but I'm still all about Chris Paul as his numbers only climb.

Paul in the month of March:

26 ppg
14 apg
58% FG

Out of this world.

Thanks for voting and make sure to vote in the new poll, for this week.

On Vacation?!?!

No I haven't died, but I am in the process of moving from Arizona to Michigan this weekend and until Tuesday. So there may be less updates for a few days and I might not be on top of everything. Thanks and keep visiting as I promise I will be on top of my game in a few days.

PJ Brown wearing his age..

No really, why is PJ Brown rocking #93, is he going to go Artest on people!?!?Update: He's wearing the number because it was the year he was married to his wife, and his first year in the league (92-93 Season).

Carlos Delfino thinking about his time in Detroit...

"Something stinks...."

Master of impressions, Frank Caliendo does Barkley, Walton

Frank Caliendo is absolutely awesome! His impressions are always spot on and perfect. Here he is on Inside the NBA doing Charles Barkley and Bill Walton, both are incredible!! When I first heard this I couldn't tell if it was Frank or Barkley for a minute or so. Watch this, enjoy this...

The Walton impression is at 6:20, it is 100% spot on, make that a priority.

Jimmy Kimmel and his horrible Karl Malone impression

Karl Malone on his family and other things

Karl Malone on Aliens


The impression is awful, yet awesome.

CP3 4 MVP!!!

Chris Paul put on another spectacular performance last night, blowing up for a huge 26 points and 17 assists against the Spurs last night. Oh, and the Hornets beat the Spurs by 25 points, 100-75. That is incredible!

The Hornets held the Spurs to just eight points in the fourth quarter, another impressive stat.

The Hornets are now 43-20, and David West and Bonzi Wells are both back on the court for them, which is vital for their success.

The Rockets take all headlines, make it 20 in a row.

The Houston Rockets beat the Hawks 83-75 tonight after trailing 33-32 at the end of the first half. The Rockets have now won 20 games in a row, that is second all-time, tying the Milwaukee Bucks. They are absolutely rolling, guys like Chuck Hayes, Luis Scola, Shane Battier and more are doing whatever it takes to get the win and help out Tracy McGrady.

This team has one superstar active in McGrady, and a bunch of solid role players, they have a chance to possibly do something in the playoffs, but only time will tell.

This is incredible, 20 games in a row, I've never seen it before and odds are most of you haven't seen it either.

Think about it this way:

The last time the Rockets lost was January 27 against Utah.

Before the winning streak, the Rockets were 24-20, only four games above .500

Portland is currently three games over .500 and they are the 10th seed in the West

The Rockets are now 44-20 and are the third seed in the West, and one game out of first.

The ONLY Superman

I loved Dwight Howard in the dunk contest. He was fantastic and put on a show. The Superman stuff was great, but remember that there is only one true Superman in the NBA, and he's been Superman since 1992....

32 points, 29 rebounds, 31 blocks

That is a Manute Bol stat line for one game!!
Manute Bol recorded 32 points, 29 rebounds and 31 blocks while in a game for Bridgeport, where he played his college ball. I don't care if they were Division 45, that's impressive. Manute will always be one of my favorite players of all-time, one of the most giving people in NBA history.

I wonder how many times they filmed this before they finally got it?

I bet the kid that screams when the shot goes in is happy his face wasn't part of the video...

Happy Birthday Isiah "JR" Rider

This is absolutely one of the craziest shots in NBA history, I almost forgot about this...


Hopefully JR Rider still isn't a complete mess. Unfortunately I highly doubt he's gotten his life together.

The Rockets keep winning, make it 19

This is getting out of hand.

The Houston Rockets have now won 19 games in a row, they destroyed the
dismal New Jersey Nets tonight by more than I can count. They play in
Atlanta and at home against Charlotte this week as well, which means
this thing could very well hit 21 straight games. Right now, the
Rockets have the third best streak in league history.

Let's say they do hit 21 straight, their next 5 games are: Lakers,
Celtics, @ Hornets, @ Warriors and @ Suns, all in a span of Sun-Sat.
The streak will end soon, it's just a matter of when and against who.
On top of that, playing those 5 teams in six days could easily mean a
3-4+ game losing streak, which could even drop them nearly out of the
playoffs in the unfair Western Conference.

I'm excited to see how this plays out, would it be crazy to say
Wednesday in Atlanta? I hope it doesn't, I'm not going to lie, I'd
like it to continue for awhile. It's a good story, I just wish Yao
Ming could be out on the floor and be a part of it all.

In addition to tying the third longest streak in NBA History, they
also tied the longest streak of double digit victories (10 in a row).
I don't care if they beat Minnesota 19 times in a row, this is really
impressive. If they win Wednesday, they tie the 1970-71 Milwaukee
Bucks for the second best winning streak of all time.

If the playoffs started right now the Houston Rockets would face the
New Orleans Hornets, if I understand this silly seeding right. Would
that mean T-Mac finally gets out of the first round? I don't think so,
but I also thought there season was done two weeks ago.

Bynum still a month or so away

Andrew Bynum's return to the Lakers is more than likely at least a month away according to the LA Times. If the Lakers are going to seriously contend for an NBA Championship this year, Bynum needs to at least be at 85%. They are winning games now, playing really well, but the Playoffs is another story. Bynum was giving them All-Star numbers this year before the injury, and they need him for at least 12 points and 8 rebounds and of course his post presence at good strength.

If all of this falls into place, I really like their chances. So far, things don't sound so great. The first round is going to be almost just as hard the conference finals in the West this year, and there isn't going to be little room for error for Bynum coming off the injury.

I'm not going to lie...

I'm a little upset that the readers of this website, the few that I have so far, have only given Chris Paul 12% of the vote for MVP. C'mon people, he might not be as popular or as pretty as the other two guys, but the guy's numbers are just as great and what his team's doing might surpass what the other two teams are doing, especially the Cavs.

Wade done for the year

I expected this sooner or later, the Miami Heat announced Dwayne Wade will sit out the remainder of the season to rest injuries. This move is a great move for two reasons:

1. The Heat will continue to tank and hopefully get the first pick, in their best case scenario. Even with Wade, they'd probably tank. They honestly, can't get any worse.

2. Wade has looked lifeless, undetermined and heartless a lot of this season, maybe he needs to rest, maybe he is really hurt.

After all of this and a summer to revamp their roster with a lot of cap room potentially, maybe we can see if Dwayne Wade is going to be the player we once thought he was, or if he's going to be the next Vince Carter.