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More Than a Game Review

February 4, 2010
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The other night, I watched the fairly new basketball documentary, “More Than a Game.” For those of you who don’t know, the film follows Lebron James in high school with his teammates and best friends on their quest to become national high school basketball champions. Looking back on it, I wonder why I didn’t catch [...]

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NBA Crunch Time

January 26, 2010
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Last week, I caught an article on crunch-time via Truehoop by Sherman Alexie who was complaining about NBA teams and players in crunch time. To summarize, Sherman writes how frustrating it is to watch an NBA game where the players and teams are playing smart ball to only throw up some prayer at the end [...]

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Dwyane Wade for MVP?

March 11, 2009

A year ago, it seemed that the Miami Heat were just at the beginning of a long rebuilding era.  A past his prime, but still effective Shaq had been traded away, and a past his prime, but still fiercely competitive and gutsy Alonzo Mourning had gone down with a serious knee injury.  Most disturbingly for [...]

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Google vs. NBA Fan Voting

January 28, 2009

Last week, the NBA All-Star voting concluded with the fans picking their favorites to start in the annual classic, which is being held on February 15th in Phoenix. As common practice by the fans, the voting is much more about a popularity contest versus which player actually deserves to start in the game. In past [...]

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M-V-P, M-V-P, M-V-P

January 12, 2009

We are almost at the halfway point of the NBA season, and I am already hearing the M-V-P chants when watching NBA games. We might as well get started on the MVP discussion. The way I see it is that the race comes down to 4 players–Lebron James, Kobe Bryant, Chris Paul, Dwayne Wade–and it [...]

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NBA Season Starts Tonight: Here is a Rundown of the Offseason Transactions

October 28, 2008

With the regular season ready to start I thought it might be helpful to do a quick recap of things you may have forgotten happened during the long summer break. Free Agency: Baron Davis, seeking to be teamed with close friend Elton Brand left the Warriors and moved south to join the LA Clippers.  Close [...]

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Bad News Knicks

October 1, 2008

Another year and the same old story for the Knick players. Just when the New York fans thought they had something to cheer about with a new coach and new management, the same old Knick players showed up with their antics. No wonder Donnie Walsh and Mike D’Antoni are trying to rid themselves of this [...]

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USA vs. Greece Live Blog

August 14, 2008

The toughest challenge of the Olympic tournament thus far for the United States is this morning against Greece. It is a little disappointing to see how flat the team has come out in what should be an emotional game against the team that beat us in the world championship in 2006.Not a lot of fire [...]

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In Lebron I trust

August 5, 2008

I remember going to Indiana Pacer games as a kid and watching my beloved Pacers battle the likes of Jordan, Bird and Ewing. However, one player that always stuck out in my mind was Karl Malone. Why? Not only did Malone have a soft jumper and ran the pick and roll to perfection, but his [...]

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