My take on Hollingers Power Rankings week 2

Hollingers power rankings

Top 4 teams:

1. Miami Heat: Heat is apparently #1 despite the disappearance of Chris Bosh, and the injured Mike Miller. It's okay though, I heard through a grape vine that James Jones will save the day.

2. Los Angeles Lakers: Laker fans are probably rioting, sending hate mails and death threats to hollinger right now. So how about them Clippers?

3. Orlando Magic: Every game, Stan Van Gundy spins his wheel of fortune to get his starting 5 and his rotation players for the game. Is it exciting? YES! We get to see everybody play, unless your name is Daniel Orton... poor fella

4. New Orlean Hornets: Them Hornets are more deserving to get #1 than the Miami Heat. I mean Chris Paul is suppose to be throwing away games because of off season unhappiness right? RIGHT?! Nope, apparently they have yet to lose. Playing 3 away games (Spurs, Bucks, Rockets) and beating Miami Heat in style using Okafor(LOL) as the main offensive weapon. Not to mention they don't have a star studded cast besides Chris Paul and David West. Who would've known Marco Bellineli can play like he's playing now. Trevor Ariza still tries to make his own shot even though we all know that's not his game. Okafor is well, he's being Okafor besides that one heat game where he scored 26 pts and grabbed 13 rebounds, and not to mention he went 12-13 FG.

Too much means, excessive... duh

When Stan Van Gundy said "ESPN is like 'All (Miami) Heat, all the time'", he wasn't kidding. ESPN will roll out an in depth editorial coverage called "The Heat Index".

As an Orlando Magic fan, this makes me REALLY bitter. Why doesn't ESPN have this kind of coverage for other teams? Lakers have been in the finals 3 times out of 3 seasons winning 2 of them, Orlando is a force to be reckoned with in the east not to mention the aged Boston Celtics.

Even with all this bitterness, ESPN runs a business and in all fairness the Miami Heat is the hottest piece of news in the NBA at the moment with the 3 of the Top 10 players playing for the same team. People will read it, people will share the story and for ESPN? Well this is what they do and this is what ESPN is for so stop hating. 

Southbeach bringin' the HEAT, uh

Party in the city where the HEAT is on

All night on the beach till the break of dawn

Welcome to Miami (bienvenido a miami)

Bouncing in the club where the HEAT is on

All night on the beach till the break of dawn

I'm going to Miami

That’s what LeBron James was probably singing when he made his career decision to go and play with Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh. Yup you heard it right, he’s joining the Miami Heat to build an empire. To better visualize on how it’s going to be here is a picture I made (I can only use MS paint, photoshop is too complicated) to give you guys a better understanding on what kind of trio they would become.

Some people on twitter already gave them nicknames such as "Miami Thrice", "Miami Power Rangers", "Miami cHEAT", "Miami 3:16"(Wade wearing #3, Bosh wearing #1 Bron wearing #6) and others that I can't remember even if my life depended on it.

So what does it mean for the Heat? Well it definitely means lots of championships in the upcoming seasons. They'll definitely be the team to beat in the east. What does this mean for my Orlando Magic? harder competition in the southeast division. If Orlando wants to win the chip, definitely this year should be the year. Then again with all the moves Pat Riley is doing, they might already start their Championship run this year... Only time will tell, yes I know that was pretty cliché.

Chris Wade - Dwyane Bosh

Years and years we've seen those Dynamic Duo in the NBA and it's always been fun to watch them play. With the announcement of Dwyane Wade, it is now verbally official that Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade will be playing together in miami.

So the thing is, the Miami Heat currently only have 4 players on their roster (Including Bosh and Wade)

1. Michael Beasely

2. Mario Chalmers

3. D-Wade

4. C-Bosh

Now with a projected 2010-2011 salary cap of 56.1m and with 2 max contracts coming up along with Beasely and Chalmers contract, they really don't have a lot to spend with for the remaining roster spots.

Miami heat is, well, lacking a Center, and a whole Bench. If I did my math right, they would roughly have 16m left to spend on a Center and a Bench. Really 16mil? Yeah apparently thats not much to work around with to be honest. Oh did I mention theres about 11 roster spots to fill? yeah exactly right

All in all, I'm pretty happy for Miami to land 2 all-stars but what comes after this is a brain twister but nevertheless it'll be really exciting to watch Bosh and Wade play together... EVEN IF they never win a championship together... (Then again I really have no idea what Heat fans thinks about this in the long run maybe its a good thing.)

In other news,

Kevin Durant (The guy who won the scoring title last year and led the Thunder to its very first playoff birth in which they sent the lakers in 6 games) just signed a 5 year 85mil extension with no opt out with the Oklahoma City Thunder AND he did it on twitter. You now became my 2nd favorite player in the NBA KD, and you have my respect, good job!

Everybody wants to be a Laker

So now that the Laker have won back to back championship under the Pau and Kobe Regime, seems like everybody now wants to be a laker. According to sources/rumors Tracy McGrady the perennial all star who could've been one of the leagues top athletes (if not injured) wants to play for the Los Angeles Lakers. To be honest I could really careless if he does play for the lakers. Good for the lakers, T-Mac despite being injured all the time still has a lil bit of game in him (I mean he was regarded as one of the top players back in the days) and can definitely spark quality minutes off the bench.

Now on the other hand Chris Bosh, being one of the top 5 free agents in the market never really said anything direct (he did give a list of 5 teams you know) that he would like to sign with the lakers but hey, seeing him in laker games does raise suspicions of him wanting to play for LA that and I believe this LA team can run for at least 1 more title because well Phil Jackson do win his championships in batches of 3.

So now lets say all that pans out and T-Mac(MLE/Paycut) and Chris Bosh(Sign and Trade for Andrew Bynum) plays for LA, wont this remind you of that star studded Laker Roster of 2003-2004? You know that team that lost in the NBA Finals against the Detroit Pistons, yeah that team. The team that sported:

Shaq, Kobe, Karl Malone, Gary Payton an all star cast which lost to detroit 4-1. I just think that too much "stars" can't always be something good for a team, then again that loss against detroit phil already had his three peat so this time around it might be different.