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NBA
In Memoriam: The Eight Eliminated NBA Playoff Teams
Image Courtesy of Houston Rockets/Facebook Just a few words about our fallen friends from Round 1 of the NBA Playoffs. Detroit Pistons Question of the Offseason: How much more will the Pistons young guns develop...
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The Curtain Draws on the 2015-16 Season for The Dallas Mavericks
Image courtesy of TJ Macias/The BMF . When I first faced him two years ago, he was simply a spec on the far end of a practice court, his larger-than-life frame faced toward the very...
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2016 NBA Playoffs: 10 Important Questions
Image courtesy of Joseph Glorioso Photography/Flickr. No need to waste too many words with an introduction. The NBA Playoffs start tomorrow, and I have ten big questions to ask and ten equally big answers to...
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The 30 Team NBA Trade Deadline Challenge
Image Courtesy of dskillzhtown/Flickr There is a pretty clear-cut hierarchy in the NBA. Golden State is undisputedly at the very top of the totem pole. San Antonio, Oklahoma City and Cleveland are the most respectable...
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Mark Cuban on Entrepreneurship and "Shark Tank"
I’m addicted to Shark Tank . Yes, it has been on ABC for seven seasons, but I got hooked by watching reruns on CNBC. I’m not an entrepeneur, but I’m fascinated by the startup businesses...
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Sonny's Top 50 NBA Players: The List
Screen capture courtesy of the NBA/YouTube . Each of the last four years I've done this top 50 NBA players countdown in the fifty days leading up to the upcoming NBA season. I've said it...
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Sonny's Top 50 NBA Players: #21 DeAndre Jordan
Image Courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr Resume: 11.5 points, (career best), 15.0 rebounds (1st in league, career best), 1.0 steal (career best), 2.2 blocks (4th in league), 471 free throw attempts (5th in league), 47 double-doubles...
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Separating Truth from Fiction: Dallas Mavericks Media Day
Image courtesy of TJ Macias/BMF SPORTS . It never fails: whenever a man in-the-know manages to dodge some dingbat member of the media bottom-feeders’ question, the dingbat in question takes it upon himself (or herself)...
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Sonny's Top 50 NBA Players: #44 Dirk Nowitzki
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . Resume: 17.3 points, 5.9 rebounds, 29.6 minutes, 46% FG, 38% 3PT, 88% FT ... Team Record in Games Played: 47-30 (3-2 without) ... Playoffs: 21.2 points, 10.4 rebounds, 2.4...
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Wagging the Dog: Why DeAndre Jordan is a Cowardly Prick
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . Okay, so, as we all know, shit happens. We deal with the shit, helplessly analyze the shit, and begrudgingly move on. True character is revealed when these sort of...
