A good morning to you all out there surfing the web, thanks for stopping by to check out the greatest unknown blog on the web. We are almost as unknown as the Pittsburgh Pirates Manager but i digress. I just wanted to share with you, my little minions, my thought of the day. The question i asked myself on my long drive into work today was "Is the NBA back?" Growing up we had Bird vs Magic, Ewing vs Olajuwon, Robinson vs Shaq, Jordan vs Miller, Jordan vs Thomas and many many more. Those were the "good ole days". You knew that the playoffs were going to be nothing short of magical. Once the greats had retired in the mid to late 90's and early 2000's the NBA went down and went down fast. The only thing that was exciting about the NBA in the early 2000's until about 2 years ago was the draft! Of the four superstars that are in the NBA Conference finals three of them were drafted in 2003 or 2004 (Lebron James 2003, Carmelo Anthony 2003, Dwight Howard 2004) I think it is fair to say that with young superstars who arent even in the conference finals including but not limited to Chris Paul, Dawyne Wade, Brandon Roy, Deron Williams and Chris Bosh the NBA is back and getting stronger and stronger as the years go on. No longer are we looking forward to the draft and hope our teams make good picks but rather the playoffs where seven game series' in the first round occur where it may go down as "The Greatest" if not one of the greatest first round series EVER!!! We now have matchups like Lebron vs Dwight and Carmelo vs Kobe going on and the future only gets better. Let me be the first to say to the owners, to the fans, to the players and to a job well done by David Stern, Welcome Back NBA, We Missed You!
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