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Huge NBA fan. Love my Mavs and got love for my nearby Wizards (i live in Virginia).

Favorite ballers are Josh Howard and Caron Butler. Both are underrated SFs with mad skills.

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Watch Out For A Motivated Josh Howard

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Dictionary: Defining Each NBA Star's Game With Just One Word

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The Houston Rockets Could Have Won It All, But Fate Had Other Plans

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The Memphis Grizzlies Are a Lost Franchise

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Favorite Athletes

Josh Howard and Caron Butler
Favorite Sports Teams

Dallas Mavericks and Washington Wizards
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2005-2006 Western Conference Semi-Finals Game 7 Mavs vs. Spurs. Ginobili and1 foul on Dirk...
Most Memorable Game Attended

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by Keith
1 day ago

It's time to prepare the throne, the King has arrived in New York! Lebron James is set to make his only appearance this season at Madison Square Garden against the Knicks. Take a look.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/285453-prepare-the-throne-the-king-is-here-lebron-james-pays-visit-to-knicks
by Harrison
5 days ago

Well look I think Dirk is a great player and that Kidd has had one of the best careers of all-time. I don't instictively hate Dallas.

It was never my intent to attack their depth. I think what rubbed you the wrong way in my analysis was then I had said that the Mavs weren't going to win the Finals.

I still believe that the Lakers will approach 70. I mean hell they won 65 last year and that's not eons away.

Look, I'll be the first to admit that the Lakers have plenty of guys to jump on the bandwagon which is fine. The truth is that I've loved the Lakers since the first basketball series I watched which was the 2001 NBA Finals.

I fell in love with both the 6ers and the Lakers during that series, and I've maintained loyalty to both teams thru thick and thin. I'll admit that I felt like more of a Kobe fan than a Laker fan thru 2005-07 but I still always loved the purple and gold.

I still say there's no way to prove superior depth in a game in which the Lakers' second best player wasn't even present.

Together, Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol haven't missed a single Finals appearance and have won over 70% of their games together (playoffs included). Besides Pau matches up very well with Dirk and that's another dimension we didn't have.

Dallas is by no means a pushover team and I may have been acting like they were at times, but I just strongly believe the Lakers are a league over them.

I'll admit that the Lakers have disappointed me so far (not just with their loss to DAL) but its the very, very start of the season. Before we count out the Lakers' odds of winning around 70 lets at least see them lose 2 or 3 more times out of the next 20 games.
by Harrison
5 days ago

Now we've gotten to the meat of things haven't we?

Ladies and gentleman I give you Waleed!

He is the greatest man ever because he's faithful to a Championship-less failure team and everyone who's a fan of a better team than his is a bandwagon!

It doesn't matter if Waleed knows how, when or why you became a fan, you're a fan of a better team so you're a bandwagon!!

It doesn't matter if you fell in love with that team from the moment you started watching basketball, even if that means by definition that you're not a bandwagon, you're a bandwagon!!!

It doesn't matter that Waleed doesn't have anything legitimate to come back at you with after you shot him down for bragging about a game of little to no import because he said you're a bandwagon.... so therefore, you're a bandwagon!!!!

FYI, I'm from Philly not GA, but I didn't see you accusing me of bandwagoning for the Sixers before you found that out.

Oh I get it.... it doesn't matter where you're from. You can like any team you want to like as long as they're not better than the mavs. If you've been loyal to that team for as long as you've been watching sports its okay as long as they're not better than poor little Dallas...right?

Dude, all jokes aside, man to man, get that fixed.

You have a psychological defect which won't allow you to acknowledge teams superior to the mavs as what they are and so you lash out at their fans out of raw jealousy accusing them of bandwagoning when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Have fun convincing yourself that great teams can't have legitimate fans. I'll just keep laughing at you and the rest of the mavs as you get booted out of the playoffs in a few months.

P.S. In my predictions I actually picked the Lakers to win 68 games, not 70, but regardless enjoy watching the Lakers fail to reach 70 wins. To you, it won't matter that they're gonna win the whole damn thing again in June.
by Harrison
5 days ago

You can continue piping your team up over this minor victory if you want. In a way, I understand, the mavs haven't really ever accomplished much else.

You can keep ignoring that your mavs have never beaten the Lakers with Pau Gasol if you want, sure.

If my team had a nothing but a history failure I might be reduced to throwing a mardi-gras level party over a regular season game too.

P.S. Did you really just try to equate Josh Howard to Pau Gasol? Did you?
by Harrison
6 days ago

Classic.

I love that you chose to ignore the part where I informed you the "great mavs" NEVER beat the Lakers when Pau Gasol set foot on the court.

You chose to respond only to the part where I brought up your team's failure to win anything of import. But look if you can't take the heat you need to stay out the kitchen.

I call a spade a spade. If your team isn't good enough to win Championships then don't start bragging about games that don't matter.

The mavs were not underestimated by me in any way. I said that they would win their share of regular season games, around 55, but that they had no shot of beating the Lakers or Spurs in a seven game series.

Tell me what part of beating the Lakers at the very start of the regular season while Pau Gasol wasn't even playing discredits that statement.

But hey, revel in the glory of a single regular season victory since you have nothing else to cling to.

Tell yourself that it means that the mavs are going straight for the Finals to become Champions of the whole world even though all logic, history and common sense blatantly dictates that they can't.

Tell yourself that I was wrong and you were right and that the poor little underdog mavs are going to excel past the mean ol Lakers.

Go right ahead....

..But if you really can do any of the above you don't belong commenting on basketball.
by Harrison
6 days ago

You're kidding me right?

I refuse to believe that you're bragging to me about ONE REGULAR SEASON game that happened while our second best player wasn't even on the floor.

I mean I guess that beating the Lakers at the start of the regular season is one of the biggest accomplishments in the history of the mavs' franchise, but guess how many all-time wins the "mighty mavs" still have against the Lakers when Gasol actually suited up?

Zero.

Just mull that over for a bit. Then mull over the fact that the Lakers are still reigning Champions, something the Mavericks came within 4 1/2 quarters of being in 2006, but choked it all up.

Still think you have room to brag?
by Steven
6 days ago

Hey Waleed!
If you could check this out it would be greatly appreciated!
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/282260-damien-wilkins-the-t-wolves-unexpected-hero
by Keith
11 days ago

Can the Knicks' Jared Jeffries at the very least regain some of his pride this season?

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/279908-knicks-jared-jeffries-simply-craving-for-approval
by Aaron
11 days ago

Waleed! whats going on?

mind checking out my latest article on the Dallas Mavericks
check-up season again!

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/279722-dallas-mavericks-annual-roster-check-up?just_published=1
by James
12 days ago

waleed!

Two new articles I wrote this week which haven't been getting much coverage.

Check this one out from yesterday on Roy Hibbert & Greg Oden, two rising centers in the NBA:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/278593-waking-giants-the-rise-of-greg-oden-roy-hibbert

Also from last week my key predictions for the Miami Heat and their new

season:http://bleacherreport.com/articles/273242-predictions-miami-heat-0910-season

Thanks mate!
by Keith
16 days ago

Are Chris Duhon and Toney Douglas the answers to the Knicks' point guard woes?

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/276444-knicks-still-struggling-to-find-the-right-point
by Steven
18 days ago

Hey Waleed!
I just wrote an article on the NBA's most underrated players. If you could check it out and leave some feedback it would be greatly appreciated.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/275379-the-nbas-most-underrated-player-at-each-position
by Steven
20 days ago

Hey Waleed!
I just wrote an article on Dikembe Mutombo. If you could check it out and leave some feedback it would be greatly appreciated.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/274046-dikembe-mutombo-should-he-be-in-springfield
by Aaron
21 days ago

Waleed

this is my latest article
mind checking it out?
comments and feedback are welcome!

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/273502-nba-stars-who-can-make-it-big-on-the-internet?just_published=1
by Steven
23 days ago

Hey Waleed!
I just wrote an article on Adam Morrison. If you could check it out and leave some feedback it would be greatly appreciated.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/272687-adam-morrison-from-college-star-to-nba-twelth-man

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