Basketball

nop. I have such opportunity to watch em... any of local tv channels show that... though to be honest I hate both teams playing there... so I do not care too much about that...

aaah, don't be a hater rae

you should watch tonight. the level of skill, energy and competition has not been seen in a long time. ok, so you don't like the teams, but at least enjoy the game itself!

I have said that none of tv channels here in basketball country Lithuania show nba finals so I can not observe it...

there only three team that I can not stand - those two and lakers...

I was always a bull and always remain the bull, even though they were poor all these years when MJ quit... Forever Bulls

im going with detriot in the finals... not a real big b-ball fan, if i have to support some1 it would be the sonics but they used to be much better when kemp and payton paired up... i used to love the game back then... i guess starting september im gonna be a celtics fan

Too bad, Spurs won!

Originally Posted by mk18

i guess starting september im gonna be a celtics fan

hahah you are chaning yer teams like sox

anyway I like Pierce very much in celtics, though do not like Payton... so i can not be a fan of them... also regarding that they are the most succesful team in nba...

Bulls Forever

Originally Posted by rae

hahah you are chaning yer teams like sox

anyway I like Pierce very much in celtics, though do not like Payton... so i can not be a fan of them... also regarding that they are the most succesful team in nba...

Bulls Forever

i dont even care about the nba... but when i go to uni there wont be any football so ill have to attend a sport... thus the boston celtics

I"M SOOOO HAPPY!!!

SPURS=2005 NBA CHAMPIONS


it was an amazing game...so good that i couldn't predict the winner up until the last quarter. it was a well deserved win, well deserved mvp...but i must awknowledge detroits determination and power.

Originally Posted by mk18

i dont even care about the nba...

this year - me too

Originally Posted by mk18

but when i go to uni there wont be any football so ill have to attend a sport...

for me- the same - no football team

Originally Posted by mk18

thus the boston celtics

... glory hunter

... glory hunter my a$$ ... id stick to the sonics if anything, i think theyre doing much better arent they?

Originally Posted by Bodat

Too bad, Spurs won!

Welcome back "old" Bodat! Where have you been hiding all this time?

As a big basketball fan, Ambro was at one the finals and nobody recognised who he is. Here is the article first posted by Pastor Ukweli at XT:


Ambrosini in the NBA Finals!

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BY NICHOLAS J. COTSONIKA
FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER

The NBA Finals are in town, and the stars have been out at the Palace. We've seen the Detroit glitterati -- Eminem, Anita Baker, Kid Rock, Tommy Hearns. We've seen a lot of NBA greats -- Magic Johnson, George Gervin, Clyde Drexler, David Robinson. We've seen other assorted celebrities -- Eva Longoria, Massimo Ambrosini ...

Wait. Massimo Ambrosini?

If you don't know Massimo, you're not alone. I took a quick walk around the concourse toward the end of Thursday night's game, and this was typical of the conversations I had with Pistons fans:

"Did you know Massimo Ambrosini was at the game tonight?" I asked Shaun Robertson, 35, of Grand Rapids.

"No, I didn't."

"Do you know who he is?"

"No, I don't."

"He plays for AC Milan."

"OK."

"Do you know what AC Milan is?"

"No, I don't."

Uncomfortable laugh. Blank look.

"I saw Jerome Bettis, though."

Bettis plays football. Ambrosini plays football. Only Ambrosini plays the kind we know as soccer.

"He's really good," said Simone Sandri, an Italian who works for NBA-TV. "AC Milan is like the New York Yankees of Europe, basically. It's probably the best team in Europe, with Real Madrid and Manchester United."

It isn't like Ambrosini is David Beckham, but he is to Milan fans what a Piston is to Detroit fans. Sandri compared him to Rip Hamilton. Flavio Tranquillo, who is doing NBA Finals play-by-play for Sky Italia, compared him to Tayshaun Prince.

Ambrosini would think twice before walking through a crowd in Milan.

"Oh, people would go crazy," Tranquillo said. "He scored the goal that brought AC Milan to the final of the Champions League."

But Ambrosini thought nothing of walking through the crowd in Auburn Hills. With his blond hair, white Abercrombie T-shirt, blue jeans and white athletic shoes, the 28-year-old looked like ... well, some guy.

"In Milan, people start talking, 'Oh! Picture! Sign!' " Ambrosini said.

And in Auburn Hills?

"No," he said. "Nobody."

On one hand, this shows how popular basketball is becoming overseas.

Ambrosini is a big NBA fan. It isn't a problem that games are on at inconvenient times at home, he said, because "you can record." His favorite player is Memphis guard Jason Williams, but he really enjoys watching Hamilton, too.

"I like his way of playing, his style," he said.

Ambrosini was on vacation in Miami, and when some Italian TV friends scored him tickets for Game 4, he hopped on a plane to Detroit. He arrived three hours before tip-off. He went back Friday morning.

"A lot of soccer players are very much in love with basketball, especially NBA basketball," Tranquillo said. "He told us thanks maybe 10 times" after he got to the Palace.

No wonder NBA commissioner David Stern is talking about overtaking soccer as the world's most popular sport. Tuesday at the Palace, Stern announced that four teams would hold training camps and play exhibitions in Europe in 2006 and '07. He also said the league was considering playing exhibitions in China and Latin America in '06 and an All-Star Game in Paris someday soon.

"What we are doing here," he said, "is to assure that elite athletes will increasingly bounce the ball rather than kick it. I think we're increasing the viability of the sport on a global basis."

But on the other hand, this brings a little perspective.

Think about it the other way.

If Shaquille O'Neal or Tim Duncan showed up at an Italian soccer stadium, Sandri said, they would be recognized, of course. Their size would attract attention.

But a star like Steve Nash would get little to no notice, Sandri said, even though he's the NBA's most valuable player. His everyday appearance would make him blend right in. If anything, people might think he was a midfielder or something.

In much of the world, soccer is still king.

As we get so wrapped up in this championship series -- breaking down every facet, exploring every angle, investing so much emotion, thinking it's so important -- it's healthy to remember that somewhere somebody doesn't care.

Ambrosini wasn't thinking about it that deeply, though. Asked how it felt to be virtually invisible when he's used to being a center of attention, he smiled.

"It's fantastic," he said.

nice article... forza ambro

Originally Posted by mk18

nice article... forza ambro

okkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Originally Posted by mk18

... glory hunter my a$$ ... id stick to the sonics if anything, i think theyre doing much better arent they?

now it's much better

Nice to know that Ambro is a basketball fan too . I bet he supports Olimpia Milano in europe.

Forza Ambro

doesnt ambro look like dirk nowitzki????



dr.milano did u take ur pill today???