With college football finishing, and NFL season winding down, the sports landscape is quickly shifting into a time when basketball comes to the forefront of significance. No longer must we suffer through a week fourteen matchup of the Titans and the Giants, but can now channel surf and see our favorite college and NBA teams playing most nights a week! As much as I love college basketball, I have always been and always will be a sucker for the NBA. ever since I was six years old and watched my beloved Memphis Grizzlies battle the Los Angeles Lakers in 2001, and win a thriller in overtime–I was hooked. Now most nights a week, you can see me glued to my computer or TV, watching all teams from the lowest of the lows, the New York Knicks, to the greatest of them all, the Memphis Grizzlies. With all this being said, here are the five things I like most from the first half of the NBA season: