Foreword by – J.C. Carnahan
The celebration began for the Los Angeles Lakers during a timeout with 40 seconds to go on Sunday night, but their 15th NBA title had already been wrapped up long before that though. It didn’t take much from there to make it official either, by way of a 99-86 Game 5 decision over the Orlando [...]

Foreword by – J.C. Carnahan

In the most recent episode of the NBA Finals on Thursday night the Orlando Magic and Los Angeles Lakers overcome a parade of whistles by an eager officiating crew at Amway Arena to actually make a game out of Game 4.
The 99-91 win for L.A. gives the Lakers a firm 3-1 series lead and inches the franchise closer to [...]

Foreword by – J.C. Carnahan
Proving there is indeed a first time for everything, the Orlando Magic won their first NBA Finals game in seven tries on Tuesday night over the Los Angeles Lakers. That cuts the series lead to 2-1 for L.A. and improves Orlando’s futile mark in the Finals to 1-6 overall in this, their second trip. The cravings [...]

Foreword by – J.C. Carnahan
You would think that after the second-half blowout we sat through in Game 1 on Thursday night the Los Angeles Lakers and Orlando Magic would remember they’re in the NBA Finals and act accordingly. But instead we at Joint Contrast had to ride the edge of our sofas into overtime before finding out how the second installment [...]

Foreword by – J.C. Carnahan
After what felt like a two-week layoff for fans, the NBA Finals finally got underway Thursday night at The Forum in California as the Los Angeles Lakers (65-17) played host to the Orlando Magic (59-23). We here at Joint Contrast caught the action up close and personal straight from the comfort of [...]

Four remain in the NCAA Tournament. Who you putting your money on?

MICHIGAN STATE – by Dank

Big Ten stand up!
They said we were weak, overrated and didn’t deserve all the nods we got for the tournament. But they won’t be having their Final Four without us!
Congratulations is due to the Michigan State Spartans for knocking off [...]

Take our word for it, everyone has an opinion this time of the year. And this happens to be ours. The Joint Contrast Final Four looks like this – Louisville, Memphis, Pittsburgh and Oklahoma – discuss amongst yourself…

‘MIDWEST’ SWINGIN – by Dank Lucas

So here it is folks, the most uninformed analysis of college basketball since [...]

By – Ray-Way Wallace
For better or worse, the NBA All-Star Weekend came and went before my very eyes, in high-definition. Here’s proof I remember at least a little bit of it before I offer up my regular-season ending predictions…

All-Star Sunday. Wow. From the intro to it’s finale, how much fun was that shit? From watching [...]