African Sports Monthly Vol I. Issue II February 2018 | Page 53

The 2017/18 NBA Season at the midway Point...

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a sneak peek on a race to top in June

The NBA Season has been full of drama, excitement and disappointments and worst of all some of the most traumatic injuries ever incurred in Sports.

With the trade of Kyrie Irving to the Boston Celtics and the Season opening matchup between the Celtics and Irving’s former team the Cleveland Cavaliers, the NBA did its homework on how to

set the stage up for an exciting season. Unfortunately on that night, newly acquired small forward Gordon Hayward of the Boston Celtics went down with one of the most gruesome injury ever suffered by an athlete in any sport. The night will eventually go the way of LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers who won that evening’s matchup.

In the early going of the season Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo came out of the gates blazing with several 40 point games making a case for consideration of league MVP but as the season