OFFICIAL NBA News Thread

^with a few tweaks from the 08 olympic gold medal rsoter with some players from this years world championship....man. USA will be fucking insane in 2012 olympics!

As a new promotion for ESPN the magazine, Marvel and Espn are teaming up for 30 magazine covers in promoting for the upcoming NBA season

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Kobe Bryant wields the Infinity Gauntlet. Lebron James dumps his Cavaliers jersey into the trash and walks away ala Spider-Man. These aren't fantastic and highly unlikely scenarios, they're promotional images from Marvel and ESPN's new collaborations for the October 22 issue of "ESPN: The Magazine." The alliance, previously mentioned on ComicsAlliance, has released the first two promotional image made to hype the upcoming NBA season.





The 2010-2011 NBA season kicks off on October 26th with the Boston Celtics playing what has become the NBA equivalent of the Avengers, the Miami Heat. Lebron James, who left the Cleveland Cavaliers in a public relations disaster this Summer to join The Heat, is featured in the first ESPN / Marvel picture.



The image of Lebron walking away from his Cavs jersey is modeled after the scene from Spider-Man 2 or, for those of you who have been reading comics for way longer than that, from Spider-Man #50's "Spider-Man No More."



The second image features Kobe Bryant, wielding a glove very similar to Thanos's Infinity Gauntlet. On the glove in the image are five rings representing the five NBA Championships Bryant won with The Lakers in 2000,2001,2002, 2009, and 2010. Whether or not Mandarin would have been a better representation for Kobe is debatable.



ESPN and Marvel are corporate siblings as they are both owned by Disney. In 1996, the Walt Disney Company purchased ABC and a majority ownership stake in ESPN totaling over 80%. The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel on December 31st of 2009. Although much Internet discussion has centered on a potential Marvel and Pixar team-up, the idea of teaming Marvel with ESPN has gone mostly under the radar.



The two images will be joined by scads more to make 30 in all promoting the new season. Are there any stars you'd like to see mashed up in the mighty Marvel manner?



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link to the stories on espn comicsalliance



http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/10/15/espn-marvel-nba-season-promotional-mashups/

http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/flash/insider/zoomGallery?section=gen&photoGalleryId=5707677

Would enjoy seeing boston handle this over hyped miami squad; hopefully they take it to them



I'm sick and tired of all this hype in miami; to be honest they are truly lacking inside game bosh won't cut it they need more production who's going to rebound?



I see this team as unbalanced; bosh to me is another pau gasol, has potential and good game but they just are not physical enough for their size they need to me much more aggressive plalyers. Garnett will probably toss Bosh around like he did gasol in the finals a few years ago.



I'd like to see Phil receive another ring but i don't think Kobe will be able to carry the lakers again this year; his age is catching up to him that'll be an important factor as they cruise into the playoffs this year. Someone will definitely need to help him out either artest, odom, or maybe barnes needs to contribute more to take some of the pressure off of Kobe. Make them multidimensional as teams know to load up on kobe and attempt to wear him down.

With age, comes more knowledge. Kobe knows that he isn't the player he once was. Will he still force some crazy shots still? Probably. But that's Kobe. He'll do whatever it takes to win, even if that means having to give Pau or another dude their night and have the offense run through them. Overall he'll be fine and healthy when the playoffs come around... Lakers for the 3peat!!!

Boston will more than likely take down Miami today, Although I'll still be going for Miami.



Probably gonna watch lakers game too, but we already know who's gonna win that game.

Orlando looked flat tonight; Adding VC to the squad was a mistake he has nothing left in the tank

Miami raped Orlando last night.



LAkers looking great though

Ready for tomorrow night

Let the season begin

Harden will regret that greedy decision he made to make more $ in Houston