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• NBA Union's New Web Site Off to Rollicking Bad Start
• By Tom Ziller 2/09/2010 9:00 AM ET
• For years, the Web site of the National Basketball Players Association has been fairly basic: the text of the league's collective bargaining agreement, a few dated press releases on awesome and ... More »
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• NBA's Amateur Dunk Contest Will Likely Overshadow the Real Thing
• By Tom Ziller 2/09/2010 8:30 AM ET
• The organizers of the 2010 Sprite Showdown Dunk Contest know what they're doing. The contest is set up for Friday night at the NBA Jam Session at the Dallas Convention Center. It will be broadcast ... More »
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• Chris Kaman Replaces Brandon Roy on Western All-Stars
• By Tom Ziller 2/08/2010 2:45 PM ET
• Brandon Roy continues to suffer ill effects caused by a hamstring strain, an injury which has kept him out of action since January 20, and which has cost him 12 games in all. As such, there will be no ...
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• Can Celtics Make Another Brilliant Ray Allen Trade?
• By Tom Ziller 2/08/2010 9:30 AM ET
• In retrospect, Danny Ainge has executed no trade as brilliant as the one which in essence sent the fifth pick in the 2007 draft and Delonte West to Seattle for Ray Allen. It was a huge risk at the ... More »
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• Warriors Waive Speedy Claxton, Surrender Trade Asset
• By Tom Ziller 2/06/2010 3:53 PM ET
• Golden State has decided it'd like to keep D-League call-up Anthony Tolliver around a while, and decided fellow D-League alum Chris Hunter (who has played less than 30 minutes total in the last two ...
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• Death to Defense? Sixers Consider Amare-Iguodala Swap
• By Tom Ziller 2/06/2010 11:00 AM ET
• It's unclear whether the newly sprouting rumor sending Andre Iguodala and Samuel Dalembert to Phoenix for Amare Stoudemire and Leandro Barbosa has some seed of mutual interest, or if it's another one ... More »
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• Recurring Isiah Thomas Rumors Show How Little World Thinks of Clippers
• By Tom Ziller 2/05/2010 5:25 PM ET
• Today's humorless report that the Clippers will consider Isiah Thomas in replacement of Mike Dunleavy as the team's basketball boss, brought to you by FoxSports.com college writer Jeff Goodman, isn't ... More »
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• Stern: NBA to 'Compress the Difference' Between Rich and Poor Teams
• By Tom Ziller 2/05/2010 9:36 AM ET
• Between now and the Hancocking of a new NBA collective bargaining agreement, every word uttered by commissioner David Stern takes on extra importance. (Well, to CBA nerds like me, at least.) In a ... More »
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• Next Six Months Could Define Next Era for Clippers
• By Tom Ziller 2/05/2010 8:46 AM ET
• If Mike Dunleavy stays in his role as general manager through the end of his contract next year, as the Clippers insist he will, the resigned coach will have a monumental impact on the next era of ... More »
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• Report: Dunleavy Out as Clippers Coach
• By Tom Ziller 2/04/2010 6:43 PM ET
• Mike Dunleavy is no longer the coach of the Clippers, according to ESPN. You'll notice the sneaky wording of that; it comes with good reason. Dunleavy will reportedly stay on as L.A.'s general ... More »
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• Will Michael Jordan Buy the Bobcats Outright?
• By Tom Ziller 2/03/2010 9:10 AM ET
• Last summer, former Rockets exec George Postolos made a bid to purchase the Bobcats from fleeing founding owner Robert Johnson. It didn't work out, but rumors persisted that Johnson was ready to take ...
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• You Need to Invent New Stats to Explain LeBron James
• By Tom Ziller 2/03/2010 8:45 AM ET
• LeBron James has been positively cosmic this season, even more incredible than in his MVP 2008-09 season. So good has been LeBron that broadcasters have had to invent new statistics to capture exactly ... More »
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• Kobe vs. Pau? The Problem Is Elsewhere
• By Tom Ziller 2/02/2010 3:50 PM ET
• As Brett Pollakoff noted Tuesday morning, even if Pau Gasol and Phil Jackson are most assuredly accurate in insisting the Lakers offense would be better off with Kobe Bryant sharing the ball more, ... More »
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• Spurs Make Way for the Rodeo
• By Tom Ziller 2/02/2010 10:00 AM ET
• Another year, another February away from home for the San Antonio Spurs. The Spurs' so-called "Rodeo Trip" -- the annual eviction from the AT&T Center due to the ever-important San Antonio Stock ... More »
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• Report: Owners Seek to Cut NBA Salaries By 20 Percent
• By Tom Ziller 2/01/2010 7:49 PM ET
• Two reports over the past week -- one by Frank Hughes of Sports Illustrated and a second appearing in Sports Business Daily (subscription required) -- suggest the coming formal proposal from NBA ... More »
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• Andre Miller Drops 52, Shrugs
• By Tom Ziller 1/31/2010 1:15 PM ET
• Heading into Saturday night's game in Dallas, Blazers point guard Andre Miller had a career scoring high of 37 points. He'd never taken more than 26 field goal attempts in a game; basically, he's ... More »
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• Popovich Retreats in War Against Grizzlies
• By Tom Ziller 1/30/2010 8:07 PM ET
• Back when the Grizzlies pawned off All-Star Pau Gasol to the Lakers in exchange for That Kwame Brown, still-in-Spain and quite pudgy Marc Gasol and a couple low draft picks, critics were everywhere ... More »
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• Paul Millsap Reminds Jazz Why They Paid Him
• By Tom Ziller 1/30/2010 6:37 PM ET
• You'll be unsurprised to learn Carlos Boozer is in pain, taking the weekend off for treatment on his strained calf. Time for Paul Millsap to reintroduce himself. The Kings were the first to remake his ... More »
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• NBA Needs Stronger Revenue Sharing
• By Tom Ziller 1/28/2010 3:50 PM ET
• It's no secret that in the NBA, the rich get richer. I'm not talking about the Pau Gasol trade, either. Due to the structure of NBA finance, wealthy teams get a significant advantage on the ... More »
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• Billionaire Confirms Ongoing Attempts to Buy Warriors
• By Tom Ziller 1/28/2010 9:20 AM ET
• Tim Kawakami, a regular pot-stirrer for the San Jose Mercury News, has been reporting since the summer that much-maligned Warriors owner Chris Cohan has been working to sell the team that has been, ...
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