If you go on youtube and type in duane notice, you will see highlights of the next Lebron James. He's only 15 years old turning 16 and he was invited to the Micheal Jordan's Brand classic game at the madison square garden for an exhibition game vs the best 15-16 years olds in the world. He scored a game high of 15 points and scored the game winning shot. Not really a shot, more of a dunk. He drove baseline and went around a big post player and threw down a reverse dunk to win the game. He was scoring jumpers after jumpers, dunks after dunks and no one could stop him. 6 foot 2 and weighs 180 pounds of musle. He also won MVP of that game and already being asked to play in a lot of good NCAA teams. That's really good recognisiong for a young man his age. In a couple years he's going to be playing for Canada's Junior team unless he goes and plays in the states but I think he wants to stay in his country Canada to show people that the canadians can ball. At the Ontario Basketball Association tournament this weekend he led his team and played big. Didn't find out if his team won but he still played good and in one game he had back to back dunks after steals. He riped one kid and threw down a tomahawk and the next play he intercepted a pass a thew down a vicious two handed dunk. Everyone has high expectations for Duane and for good reasons. good luck to him

Game 4 of this series between the cavs and the celtics and the cavs fall short. I guess the celtics know LeBron's offense because he didn't do much that game either did the rest of the team even though they only lost by 10. The Cavs made a little run in the third quarter by out scoring the celtics by 7 but the celtics pretty much led the whole game and they never let down. final score was 97-87 for the celtics as they improve the series to 3-1. The Cavs will really have to step up if they want to keep their season and championship hopes alive. The game was pretty good. The Cavs put up a fight even though they lost but they weren't consistant. They kept on coming back to closing the gap on from trailing by ten, then they would start losing again, then coming back. It was kind of like the series between utah and lakers how utah would come back and then trail again. The good thing is that Lebron played hard defense. He had 3 blocks on the night and 7 defensive rebounds. A monster block was against Tony Allen on a fast break layup and the other one came against ray Allen on a wide open layup from the baseline after some good ball movement. Lebron came from week side help and blocked it all the way into the celtics bench. Big play but not big playing overall from the Cavs. Lets just hope the Cavs do better next game or else it will be the end of their season and another disapointing season.

Game 3 in this series and The Cavs come up real big stepping up to get the victory in a blow out of 124 to 95. LeBron who was the Cavs hero in this one scored a game high of 38 points 10 rebounds and 7 assists. I Think it's safe to say that the cavs are at their best when LeBron has at least 28 points or more. They just don't have nothing going on if he isn't having a good game. When he starts to score, it pumps up his teamates and they start making plays too. Everyone was hitting their shots and they are looking like a championship team right now. Antawn Jamisn was big cleaning the glass with 12 rebounds. Their offense was flowing and working to perfection. They ran circles around the Doc River's Celtics Defense and I guess it's time for Doc to get back to the drawing board to find answers for this offense. No one from The celtics could get their offense going because of the Cavs much improved defense and the Celtics struggle. Kevin Garnett played a descent game scoring 19 points. Boston just couldn't get rebounds on the Cavs. The smallest guy on the court, Rajon Rondo had the most rebounds for the celtics with only 8. That says something right there. You can't win a game if you're getting out rebounded by that much. The Cavs already faced that in game two and made some changes. Rajon Rondo played good in the first two games but this game he was held to under 10 points and only 5 assists. Cavs did everything right and the celtics did everything wrong. That's why the cavs won this game. They need to keep it up if they want to advance.

Game two of this series between the cavs and the celtics and the celtics are able to get a victory in the Cavs home court. Boston came up big and this game andcontrolled the game starting from the tip off. It's very important to dictate the tempo in a basketball game and that's exactly what the celtics did. They shut down Lebron making him take bad shots and only holding him to 24 points. 24 points is a lot but for a player of his caliber, that's just not going to do. The final score was 104 to 86 and the biggest lead of the game was 24 points. Player of the game was Rajon Rondo who is very well known for stepping up in the playoffs, in this game getting his triple double with 20 points, 10 rebounds and 19 assists. They couldn't find answers for Ray Allen either. He scored a team high of 22 points and he shot 4 for 6 from three point land. Paul pierce didn't play an amazing game but he did contribute with 16 points for his team.
The Cavs were just struggling on offense and couldn't find answers to the boston celtics defense. They were everywhere on the floor. Everytime LeBron tried to drive to the basket, they had two players from the week side swarming at him making him throw up difficult shots. Even when he has the ball in the perimitor, They would have Tony Allen playing him close and contesting every shot he took. I really like the Cavs and I want to see LeBron James get his first ring and Shaq getting his 5th but If this keeps going on, they wont make it there. See you all after game 3

I know that LeBron James put up high numbers in the Game vs the Celtics in game one. He had 37 points to go with 7 assists and 7 reounds, and the bench played a good game too and everyone seemed to have woken up in the second half after trailing by 11 in the firs half. But that person who woke the Cavs up and caused a big momentum change was Mo Williams. He scored 17 of his 20 points in the 3rd quarter and he was lights out ! It all started with a fast break dunk over 6 foot 6 guard Paul Pierce. Mo is only 6 foot 3 and got over the taller defender. he streaked as fast as he could and no one expected him to do such a thing but he did and made the crowd go crazy. He was hitting deep three pointers and mid range jumpers and the Celtics couldn't find a way to stop him through out the whole quarter and by the time he slowed down and didn't score much anymore, it was way too late because he pumped up the King and he took over from there. Mo Williams pumped him up good and LeBron was unstopable in the 4th quarter scoring 12 of his 37 in the 4th. He was aggressive getting to the paint but he also extended his game by shooting two big three pointers in the final 3 minutes. Both of these shots were made at the exact same spot. Ladys and genlemen, I think the king has identified his hot spot. This is going to be a very fun round between these two teams and I am looking forward to watching game 2 in this series.

As you know, great players are always compared to each other. LeBron James has been compared to great players too. He used to get compared to Carmelo Anthony and Dwyane Wade but Dwyane surpased him at one point when he won an NBA finals and got his ring. but after that, his team struggled and one year didn't make the playoffs or got eliminated in the first round. But now, the Cavs are a lot better then the Heat and Lebron's stats are incredible and almost averages a triple-double a game, so the discussions about him and Dwyane Wade ended there. At one point he got compared to Michael Jordan, and in my opinion, no one should be because he was just the greatest so lets leave it at that. Now he is Compared a lot to Kobe Bryant. Most people take Kobe Bryants side to the comparison because of his four rings and none of LeBron's. But i my opinion, you can't compare them in that way because there are players that have many rings but aren't the best players. Such as Robert Horry and his 8 rings. He is a very good player and fits in any team. But you won't say that he is the best player in the NBA because of his rings. I think that Leron is the best Player in the league because he's big fast, he can shoot, drive, rebound and defend. He is just a complete player and can do anything you ask for. But for Kobe, he is more of a jump shooter, making shots, getting to the line and being a clutch player.He is better at closing out games but i find that LeBron is far more skilled then he is. But until he wins some championships, I guess Kobe will remain the best.

Let's look at LeBron Jame's resume in basketball here for a minute. He played in highschool for St Vincent St Mary and got a lot of attention from the NBA already. He had cameras filming his every games and reporters interviewing him and following him to every game and wheer ever his team would travel. Then got drafted out of high school, 1st round pick to the Cavaliers. He has always been compared to two players at the beginning of his career. Those players were Carmelo Anthony from the Denver Nuggets and Dwyane Wade from the Miami Heat. Dwyane Wade already got his championship ring in 2006 in the finals vs the Mavs and got the title for finals MVP. Both Carmelo and LeBron are ringless with no championship and are still striving for one both. Carmelo is a great player and got awarded one year for scoring champion and making it to the western conference finals last year but got eliminated by Kobe Bryant and the L.A Lakers and that's about it for him. But LeBron James has gotten selected first in the 2004 draft, got two all-star MVPs and he won the eastern finals vs the Pistons but got swepts in the finals. Recently he just got back to back season MVPs. Now if you tell me he doesn't have a great resume you are crazy. But just like every great player that's ever played in the NBA, he wants a championship and that's the only thing that's missing in his resume. I'll talk about this matter in my next blog

My prediction is that the Cavs will advance to the eastern finals and play against the Orlando Magic who is in my opinion going to take out the Hawks. Lets just hope that happens or else it's going to be an easy eastern finals for the Cavs against the Hawks. The Cavs ae going to have a really good matchup against the Magic because they are equily matched. The both have great guards, great shooters and great post players. I see the Magic putting double couverage on LeBron every time he will try to make a move to the lain. Cavs are also going to double team Dwight Howard in the post or else they would get eaten alive because they can't count on Shaquille O'neal to guard Dwight howard for a straight 48 minutes... we all know about Shaq's conditionning. And I really don't think he got the foot work to guard him neither because Dwight is a quick forward for his size. All players just have to be at the top of their game to come up big in this one. You do not want to fall behind and let the other team get a lead bcause it will not be easy to make a comeback against any of these two teams. Cavs players have to be ready to close out on the Magic shooters because we all know about the Magics offense. They love to shoot from beyond the arch and are very good a it. And don't forget to box out or else Dwight Howard will be a very big stress. I can't wait to see these two teams and I'm hoping this matchup happens.

Game one of this second round series between the Cavs and the Celtics was a closely contested game but the Cavs came up with the first first win in this one in a final score of 101-93. The Cavs didn't play a great first half because of the Celtics defense and hot shooting from Ray Allen and others. The Celtics were running their offense to perfection and getting stops on defense but the Cavs woke up in the second half an dcame up with the victory. Lebron James as usual would come up with the game high in points and in this one he ends up with 37 points. Most of it came in the second half. Even Shaquille O'neal pitched in big in this game with 12 points and 10 boards. Playing very aggressive, taking advantage of his weight and height to not let the youngsters of the Boston Celtics get to him. He was man handling Kendrick Perkins but their wasn't much Kendrick could do. Shaq also got a few good assists by kicking the ball out to shooters or feeding the ball to LeBron James cutting in the lane for layups.
Cavs only shot 45% from the field in the first half but woke up and shot a good 52% in the second half and out rebounding the Celtics by 5 in the second half. Everyone contributed and this is going to be a good series. The Celtics played hard ball and they are just waiting for game two to start and we hope are Cavs are as ready as they are. If the Cavs keep up th paste as they are doing right now, I can see them advancing to the eastern conference finals, but that's just my prediction. we'll see what happens in the next few games. Thank you and goodbye