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Toronto Raptors: Failures at tanking
Image courtesy of Matthew Addie/Flickr . We’re living in an upside down universe of condoned tanking (or, in Commissioner Adam Silver’s very first bit of spin, “rebuilding”). No fewer than eight teams are actively angling...
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Only One Way Out for the Cleveland Cavaliers
Image courtesy of Erik Daniel Drost/Flickr . The NBA’s great debate of the moment is not the MVP race (although LeBron James versus Kevin Durant is an historically good one), or what Kobe Bryant has...
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NBA Hip Hop Lyric of the Week: Jay Z Encore
Image courtesy of Rich Thane/Flickr . The first three tracks of The Black Album , Jay Z's once-and-for-all declaration that he is hip hop's greatest living artist, are firmly oriented to the album's overarching themes:...
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The Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets meet again
On Veterans Day, two kindred spirits of the modern NBA—the Utah Jazz and the Denver Nuggets— collided in the first of four annual encounters . These clubs entered that meeting with a single win between...
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The NBA's 10 Worst Starters
After a long and trying season, an amateur draft process, an arduous window of regulated market activity, exploratory summer leagues and training camps and pre-season contests, each franchise rolls out its carefully assembled roster for...
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Cooler heads for the New York Knicks
The ineptitude of the New York Knicks has once again taken center stage in an otherwise entertaining NBA campaign. A nine-game losing streak that carried New York from mid-November through the first of this month...
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Why the Chicago Bulls Should Double Down
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr Submit this to the oceanic outpouring of opinion and analysis following Derrick Rose’s latest knee injury: The consensus that has coalesced (with stunning speed) following Derrick Rose’s new season-ending injury...
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Rocky Mountain Showdown: The intertwined future of the Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets
On opposite sides of Rollins Pass, sitting high above the rest of the NBA where sports are more frequently experienced out in the snow, lie two kindred spirits of the game: the Utah Jazz and...
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The Philadelphia 76ers Experiment
Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men (and the Coen Brothers’, too) features a character named Anton Chigurh, played in the movie by Javier Bardem, who in reviews and analysis is often referred to as...
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NBA Fandom Games: The Finals
Whereupon an NBA free-agent fan sets about selecting a team to root for during the 2013-14 NBA season. To reiterate: Loyalty in the context of sports fandom is a brutally thankless quality. American professional basketball...
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