Basketball Daily

Basketball fans around the country are getting ready for the beginning of the new NBA season tonight.  3 games are on the schedule for their season openers and 2 of the games are nationally televised on TNT.

At 8 pm Eastern/5 pm Pacific is the Cleveland Cavaliers against the NBA Champion Boston Celtics.  Watch Lebron and company go against the Big 3 (Garnett, Pierce, Allen).

At 8:30 pm Eastern/5:30 pm Pacific is the Milwaukee Bucks against the Chicago Bulls.  This game will air only on local affiliated channels.

At 10:30 pm Eastern/7:30 pm Pacific following the Cleveland/Boston game is the Portland Trailblazers against the Los Angeles Lakers.  Watch Greg Oden’s first professional game, take on the reigning Western Conference Champs with Kobe Bryant and company.

On the left side of every page, down on the bottom is the current NBA Standings Leaderboard.  This widget is updated in real time and will become live this Tuesday when the NBA 2008-2009 season gets underway.

If you have a website or blog of your own, and you would like to put this widget on the site, you can copy and paste the code below into a sidebar text field or within the web page itself.  Do not include the quotes when copying this code.

“<embed type=application/x-shockwave-flash width=198 height=444 src=http://widgets.clearspring.com/o/4704165422de6aac/474355448c077eb8/4704165422de6aac/a4bdcfcd/ wmode=transparent allowscriptaccess=always allownetworking=all id=4704165422de6aac> </embed>”

There are also many other NBA basketball widgets that can be put on a website.  To look at the wide variety of widgets available follow this link.

The 33 year old forward Keith Van Horn got waived by the New Jersey Nets reducing their roster to the 15 player maximum.  Keith tried to prolong his career but apparently didn’t perform up to the expectations of the Nets coaches.  Keith hasn’t even appeared in a regular season game since the 2005-2006 season.

His career averages over the course of 9 years in the pros and 5 different teams are 44% field goal shooting, 36% three point shooting, 83% free throw shooting, 16.0 points per game, 6.8 rebounds per game, 1.6 assists per game and 0.8 steals per game.  Van Horn’s NBA career is probably over unless another team signs him soon, which is unlikely.