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The 2021 NBA All-Star Break Was Borderline Sickening
The NBA’s annual All-Star weekend is a joy many basketball fans look forward to every season. From the celebrities sitting courtside to the rim-shattering dunks from the Dunk Contest, what’s not to love? Well, this...
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Final 2020 NBA Mock Draft
The 2020 NBA Draft is almost here and the anticipation for tomorrow night couldn’t be any greater. Executives and informants around the league have been buzzing about the number of trades and various transactions that...
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2020 NBA Mock Draft: 2.0
The 2020 NBA draft is just around the corner and team executives are beginning to make the final preparations for what they plan on doing with their draft pick come November 18th. There’s a lot...
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2018 NBA Draft Results
Image courtesy of the NBA. The 2018 NBA Draft was held Thursday evening at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York and hosted by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver for the first round, with Deputy Commissioner...
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A Tale of Two Sports Leagues: The NBA and NFL
Over the last couple of weeks I've been pondering what I wanted to do with my seventh annual Thanksgiving-ish NBA column. Normally this isn't a task I have much trouble with, but as I worked...
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Tony Romo Becomes a Maverick For a Day, Accomplishing Literally Nothing
When word slipped down the ladder that recently-retired Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo would sign a one-day contract with the Dallas Mavericks, the Metroplex sports media divided themselves into two very distinct groups: The Haters....
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The Case for More Changes to the Home Run Derby and Slam Dunk Contest
Let me start by saying I am a gigantic fan of NBA Commissioner, Adam Silver and MLB Commissioner, Rob Manfred. Commissioners of both leagues are certainly on top of the current era, and have also...
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Assessing the Situation: What is Religion's Role in Sports?
Professional sports has served as a medium of interaction between altering races and religions since its value as a commercialized product was fully recognized. Competition between cities, countries, and nationalities has become bigger than the...
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Go Ahead and Hack-a-Shaq, Not the Rule Book
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . Basketball is a stop-and-go sport disguised as one with flow, smoothly weaving back and forth across the court for a 48-minute game. After tipoff, when the ball is moving...
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Devastation, Destruction, and the Damned: Houston Rockets Take a Pivotal Game 3
Image courtesy of T.J. Macias Baller Mind Frame . The faithlessness that seemingly flicked at the spine of Dallas Mavericks fans, after their sedated loss to the Houston Rockets in Game 2, was a mere...
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