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NBA Eastern Conference Preview: Part I

October 14, 2009

The NBA season kicks off tip off is in less than 14 days. I thought I would do my due diligence and provide you with a preview of the upcoming season and give you my predictions on how it will all play out. I am sure I won’t be wrong at all (need sarcasm font [...]

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Kevin Johnson vs Reggie Miller

November 14, 2008

A week ago Tuesday, two basketball loving men were elected as the first African-American to their respective offices. The first, of course, was Barrack Obama, who will be our nation’s first African- American president. The second man is the former Phoenix Suns great point guard, Kevin Johnson, who will be the first black mayor of the city of Sacramento. [...]

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Fantasy Football versus the NBA Draft

September 4, 2008

I know this is a basketball website/blog, but I can’t help myself. The football season starts today and how great is fantasy football? There is nothing better than sitting in front of your TV on a lazy Sunday, not caring one iota about the score, but just cheering for your fantasy running back to get [...]

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Bender the Philanthropist

August 30, 2008

After a few sad articles and news, I thought I would lighten it up a bit and talk about a player who lost his career to a knee injury…But, seriously, there is light at the end of this dark blog. Jonathan Bender was selected 5th by the Toronto Raptors in the 1999 NBA draft. He was [...]

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Duckworth and Tisdale

August 27, 2008

In the past couple of days there have been a couple of sad stories relating to retired NBA players. First was the story about the untimely death of Kevin Duckworth, of which Jaime wrote. I knew Kevin a little bit, about how an opposing coach gets to know players on other teams. Kevin was a [...]

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Walsh talks on importance of Shot-Blocking

July 21, 2008

While watching an NBA summer league game between the Knicks and the T-Wolves on NBA TV last night, the announcers brought on Donnie Walsh for an interview. Donnie is a very good friend of George and the family is considered one of the smartest basketball minds in the NBA. Anytime he is interviewed or speaking I listen intently and [...]

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