NBA Basketball Returns

Just as teams are finishing the final touches on their roster, coaches are appearing in newspapers and on television praising their club and the additions their teams have made. The NBA season is just weeks away and once again, we are here trying to pick out the cream of the crop for the 2006-2007 NBA season.

This season will be no different than any of the previous seasons. Like any of the previous years, this off-season saw a myriad of player transactions - from Ben Wallace joining the Chicago Bulls to Shane Battier being traded to the Houston Rockets and to TJ Ford going to the Toronto Raptors. And like any previous seasons, this season will have its share of surprise teams and disappointing teams. One thing that will be different this season, however, is the crowning of the NBA championship to a franchise that has never been crowned before - The Phoenix Suns.

All of the 30 teams in the NBA can rightfully make the argument for being the hungriest team to win a championship. Garnett and his Timberwolves have been starving for a title run ever since he joined the team back in 1995. Avery Johnson's Mavericks have been hungry for a title, but Shaq, Wade and Riley stole their dinner this past season. The Baby Bulls, who are all grown up by now, have a strong frontline of Ben Wallace, Tyrus Thomas, and Andres Nocioni and may arguably be the team to beat in the Eastern Conference. Finally, the hungry Los Angeles Clippers, who were an inch away from stealing the Phoenix Suns spotlight during the playoffs, have fine tuned their lineup to not only surpass their cross-city rivals, but compete strong in the entire Western Conference with the addition of three-point shooting big man Tim Thomas pairing up with the team's superstar Elton Brand.

Nonetheless, as hungry as the rest of the teams and their multi-million dollar payrolls are for an NBA championship this season, no team is as hungry for a title as the Phoenix Suns. Although the Phoenix Suns have had some tremendously successful and memorable moments since their inaugural season back in 1968, they have never won an NBA title. This season could be different.