New Reality Basketball’s POSTING UP PODCAST with Josh & Steve
Episode 1
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The defending champs, the Dallas Mavericks, received their fancy rings and then faced a serious test from one of the best teams in the league and came out looking ready to defend their title against anyone in the league. Finals MVP Dirk Nowitzki started his night slowly on the offensive end as he had voracious Joakim Noah in his face. Caron Butler, who has missed the majority is the last 2 seasons, was quick to pick up the slack and show that he is back better than ever after season ending knee surgery. Butler was productive all game shooting 10-14 from the field.

The Bulls were lead by their superstar, Derrick Rose, who controlled the pace of the game for the Bulls, got to the line often, but shot poorly from the field. The Mavs also were deeper than the Bulls. The Mavs will play 12 players most night and got solid production from almost everyone off the bench.

OKLAHOMA THUNDER @ LOS ANGELES LAKERS

In the headliner of the evening, the juggernaut Lakers faced the Thunder fresh off their trip to the Western Conference Finals. The Lakers struck first with an early knockout blow in this heavyweight fight when the Thunder’s superstar Kevin Durant got two quick fouls in the first 90 seconds of the game and sat out the rest of the quarter. When Durant returned to start the 2nd quarter he picked up ANOTHER foul and sat the rest of the first half. The Durant-less Thunder were succeptible to a motivated Kobe Bryant who came out and scored 18 in the first half helping the Lakers take a 25 point lead at halftime. It looked like Kobe’s controversial illegal(in the US) vampire surgery worked as Kobe looked like he was in midseason form (and like he turned back the clock 5 years).
Durant returned in the second half and scored 28 points (31 in the game) but it was too little too late. The Lakers’ Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum outplayed the Thunder’s big men (Kendrick Perkins and Serge Ibaka).

BOOM!
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Basketball Refugees!

We all know that the current reality in the professional basketball landscape is disappointing and is now a vacuum of the sport that we love.

We propose a NEW REALITY, a parallel universe where basketball starts tonight.
It’s the NRBA (New Reality Basketball Association).
The season will be played.
We will provide results, box scores, standings, league leaders, AND some video highlights, analysis, and chatter.
The games will be powered by a full season simulation on NBA 2K12.

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Will this be the season that the Heat start their dynasty?
Do the Mavs have another run in them?
Are the Lakers past their relevance?
Are the Thunder the next San Antonio Spurs or will they never get to the promise land like the Sacramento Kings?
Are the Knicks a contender or just conversation piece?

Game updates starting tomorrow!