NBA All-Stars 2010

The NBA All-Star game features the best basketball players in the world.  The starters for the Western Conference and Eastern Conference were recently announced.

For the West, Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Carmelo Anthony, Tim Duncan and Amare Stoudemire are the starters.  The Eastern Conference team features Lebron James, Allen Iverson, Dwight Howard, Kevin Garnett and Dwyane Wade.  My prediction is that the West will win the game with Carmelo Anthony being named the MVP.

Check out this great video featuring basketball highlights from the 2010 NBA All-Stars. J.Cole’s music is featured.

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Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen aka the “Big Three” from the Boston Celtics are the NBA Champions of 2008. Download the Boston Celtics Media Guide for an in depth look at the road to greatest prize in basketball, winning the NBA Championship.

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KG and Verizon Partner to Compete with Comcast Celtics

Kevin Garnett is now shooting ads for Verizon. The significance of the basketball marketing deal is the fact that Verizon’s biggest competitor is the cable TV company that carries the Boston Celtics games during the regular season.

KG is now engaged in a NBA playoffs showdown against the Detroit Pistons, is starring in a 30-second ad that touts Verizon’s cable FiOS TV services, including the system’s “home media” products.

The national ads, which started airing yesterday, will run for a couple of months, a Verizon spokesman said yesterday.

“Kevin Garnett is the ultimate, game-changing NBA star, and FiOS TV is the ultimate, game-changing entertainment experience,” said John Wimsatt, senior vice president of marketing for Verizon Telecommunications.”

Streetball Remix: “Kevin Garnett is the ultimate, game changing NBA star that can push our products to the people most willing to purchase them.”

As a Verizon statement describes it: “The new TV spot is set in a venerable Boston mansion that is decorated in a comically lavish style. Garnett towers over a slender Verizon technician who shows him how he can record videos in his family room, then watch them on other TV sets located throughout the house, including in a five-story stairwell.”

Verizon, the giant phone company that only recently jumped into the cable-TV business, provides digital services to 70 towns in Massachusetts, though not yet in the city of Boston.

By teaming up with Verizon, Garnett is in effect pitching a product that competes with Comcast, owner of Comcast SportsNet, which carries Celtics games.

Comcast yesterday indicated it wasn’t intimidated by Garnett’s towering presense for Verizon, which also carries Comcast SportsNet’s Celtics games.

Comcast Responds to Kevin Garnett and the Verizon Alliance

Referring to Verizon as a “phone company,” Comcast spokesman Jim Hughes said no other competitor “comes close” to its coverage of the “amazing Celtics” and other New England sports teams via its on-demand and high-definition services.

Your homework for the day is to re-read the article and this last quote and its significance or just understand the search results.