Andre Gomes

Besides the Celtics and the Lakers no other team had the spotlight the Rockets had last season. After all, the team had a winning streak of 22 games (the second longest ever on the NBA) and to prove how competitive has been the Western conference, the Rockets even with the streak still finished » finish reading this post...

The last three seasons were a nightmare for Mark Cuban, who saw his team failing when they weren't supposed to. In 2005/2006, they finished the regular season with a 60-22 record and went to the NBA finals, where they lost to Miami by 4-2, when they were up by 2-0. In 2006/2007 they had an even » finish reading this post...

Last season, just two persons in the world thought that trading Memphis' best player, Pau Gasol, to the Lakers for Kwame Brown, Javaris Crittenton, Aaron McKie (who retired) and the draft rights of Marc Gasol would be a nice deal: Grizzlies GM Chris Wallace and the team's owner Michael Heisley » finish reading this post...

The Pistons have created some kind of a dynasty on the East, without however having great results. The team reached last season the Conference final for the 6th season in a row, but they have just won the NBA title once and another final in that span. After the Game 6 against the Celtics last season » finish reading this post...

Lebron James' contract is one season closer to the end and the Cavs GM Danny Ferry has been doing everything to improve the team and keep it as most competitive as possible, the same is to say "keep Lebron happy". The trade the Cavs made in the middle of last season by bringing Ben » finish reading this post...

The Pacers began last season a reformulation with Jim O?Brien in front of the team and it was concluded with the trade of Jermaine O?Neal to Toronto. We are in front of a team which will begin this season a new cycle. With O?Brien, the Pacers are no longer the defensive team, which was their identity » finish reading this post...

The Bulls after some consecutive seasons where they managed to have a solid team and advance to the playoff have gone backwards last season, but luck was on their side and their bad season gave them the #1 draft pick this season. The team was coming from a season where they had a 49-33 record and » finish reading this post...

The Bucks were one of the teams which most changed their roster during the offseason and even though this isn't a guarantee that they will have better results this season, they really needed to do something, after a 26-56 season (just the Heat and the Knicks did worse on the East), the 3rd worst » finish reading this post...

Very few players had the spotlight Dwight Howard had last season. Howard had an amazing regular season with 20.7 ppg, 14.2 rpg and 2.1 bpg and in the All Star weekend, he dress like Superman to win the dunk contest. He was clearly the most dominant center in the regular season and he started the » finish reading this post...

Normally when a team has aspirations to win the title, they need to have a trio of players, who are capable of playing well on a consistent way during the whole season. That's why Boston won with Garnett, Pierce and Allen, or for example the Spurs have been the most consistent team of the last » finish reading this post...

The Hawks were just one game away last season from being the "Cinderella Team", when they took the future champions Celtics to a 7th game in the first round of the playoffs, something amazing, as the Hawks finished the regular season with almost less 30 wins than the Celtics and they had » finish reading this post...

Miami is one of the teams that even with a NBA title couldn't build a legacy like the Lakers and the Spurs managed in the last few years, as the opposite has exactly happen! With the arrival of Shaq in 2004/2005, the Heat had a 59-23 record and they were champions on the following year, with » finish reading this post...

The Bobcats will start from scratch for the third season in a row, as they have another new coach for this season. After Bernie Bickerstaff in 2006 and Sam Vincent in 2007, it's time for the experienced coach Larry Brown to take over in Charlotte. Sam Vincent won't surely be missed, as he » finish reading this post...

Utah has barely changed anything on their structure for this season, which makes sense as the Jazz reached the conference final two years ago and last season, they were eliminated by the Lakers in the conference semi finals, so the main question for the team this season is to know if they are good » finish reading this post...

Last season, Denver managed to have an excellent end of the regular season, by winning 10 of their last 14 games and reclaiming the 8th and last spot for the postseason in the Western conference, where they ended up being swept by the Lakers. In that series, Denver scored 101.5 ppg, but we all know » finish reading this post...