Michael A. Hagan

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Snow Leopard, Final Cut Studio 3 & College Basketball

A few new things on the horizon. Finally have gotten around to upgrading to Snow Leopard. Which is nice, you won’t notice but so much difference except for about 13GB more of free storage on your system drive, new look on your Dock item’s pop up menu and some faster start up and [...]

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The NBA Draft, Top 25 recap & my new team

A lot of media outlets and NBA analysts were saying that this is one of the weaker drafts in more recent history. I understood what they were talking about, the obvious overall #1 pick was blake Griffin but after that it was somewhat of a toss-up. But personally, I couldn’t disagree more.
To me [...]

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An open letter to Stan Van Gundy, Magic Coach

Dear Mr. Van Gundy,
This year has been a good one to you. After taking Billy Donovan’s leftovers two years ago after he changed his mind about coaching the Magic, you have had some former players call you out and you have had your current players call you out but yet, you are still coaching [...]

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The NBA Finals: Potential Match Ups

It’s obvious that David Stern and the League would love to see another marquee match up in this year’s finals with Kobe v. Lebron like last year’s Celtics/Lakers Finals.
I understand why people would want to see that but with the Cavs loss last night, it looks like the Magic maybe coming out of the East [...]

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Should the NBA ever change their logo?

Adding fuel to the fire on the debate of who is better, Kobe or Lebron, NBA Hall of Famer and face of the NBA logo, Jerry West, weighed in with his opinion. The former L.A. Lakers GM who got Kobe to the Lakers, says that Lebron is the better player but Kobe is the [...]

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Final Four: The Conference Finals

Well now that we’re down to the final four, there really is only one surprise this NBA postseason. The Denver Nuggets.
The only other surprise in the west was the new team that the Rockets were forced to assemble after losing both centers, Yao Ming & Dikembe Mutumbo to injuries. They gave [...]

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NBA Playoffs: Round Two

Now that we are past the first round wizardy of the Celtics/Bulls series and the least competative game 7 series of the Heat/Hawks, we head straight into the grind of the second round, I think we got some pretty good match ups here. Let’s take a look at each match up…
Round II
Western Conference
Dallas vs Denver
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Celtics vs Bulls, best series ever

I don’t want to hear that this can’t be the best series ever because it is Round 1. If we are talking about “best series”, any series is automatically in contention. I also don’t want to hear the Garnett factor, “Oh well, Boston’s best player isn’t on the court.” Maybe so, but [...]

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Mutombo retires: NBA loses an ambassador

The NBA has a newest oldest player. I am not sure exactly who that is but I know who it was. It was Dikembe Mutombo…until last night. Mutombo was playing with the Rockets last night in Portland for game 2 against the Trailblazers when he tangled his left knee with Portland center, [...]

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NBA Playoffs: Round 1

The defending champs, Boston Celtics worse nightmares were realized when it was announced that they will be missing their starting Center, Kevin Garnett for the entire post season. am sure you could have heard a pin drop in the room when it was announced. This could have been part of the cause [...]

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