NBA Picks 11/13

Yesterday's picks: 3-0

Undefeated day is only slightly marred by the fact that all the games (except my featured one) were blow outs.

Today's games:

BOSTON at Indiana

Seattle at ORLANDO

Miami at CHARLOTTE

Houston at MEMPHIS

Philadelphia at DALLAS

New York at PHOENIX

DETROIT at Portland

Featured game: LA Lakers at San Antonio

Kobe has established himself throughout his career as a player with a killer instinct. He is the type of player who, for all his off-the-court troubles, will do everything in his power to ensure that his team wins the game. He has already shown this a few times this year, carrying his team to wins against seemingly better competition (vs. Utah, vs. Phoenix). However, the Spurs are a hard team to do that against. Manu Ginobili, coming off the bench, is liable to take apart the Laker's second unit (as he does to every team). The Spurs are not the type of team that you enjoy playing against (such as, for example, the Phoenix Suns) who will let you get into a groove. They will make you play every point until you hate the game and we hate watching it, and then they will torch you for it.
Winner: SAN ANTONIO

The NBA doesn't care

About correct grammar, that is.

I think we all went through enough strife when it was revealed that the new slogan for this season as going to be "Where amazing happens." But we accepted it as just the marketers being dumb and prying us away from our beloved "I love this game."

However, yesterday, as the 2007-2008 NBA season was unveiled, so too was the new slogan for the NBA Cares program: Where caring happens.

May I be the first to say... What?!

What does that even mean? It doesn't make any sense. For a program in which one of the main goals is to improve reading skills among inner city children (via the Read to Achieve branch), they certainly don't seem to pay much attention to improving our sentence structure.