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Mavericks Have Something to Prove, Collapse Under Raptors
Image courtesy of TJ Macias/BMF SPORTS. During the second half of the Dallas Mavericks home opener against the visiting Toronto Raptors, small forward Chandler Parsons watched anxiously from the roughness of the bench. He wasn’t...
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The Return of the Blue-Eyed Handsome: Mavericks Squash Lakers
Image courtesy of TJ Macias/BMF SPORTS Crammed between Game 5 of the World Series and an NFL football match up between two undefeated teams, was it difficult for Twitter to sniff out handsomeness at the...
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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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Hack-a-Jordan Only Goes So Far, Clippers Best Mavericks
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . Any notions of equanimity were thrown out the window at the Staples Center during the second quarter of the first showdown between the Dallas Mavericks and the Los Angeles...
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Sexy is as Sexy Does: Mavericks Stun in Season Opener
Image courtesy of Scott Mecum/Flickr . Whispers of a so-called “revenge game” resembled titanium musings around the league: Tyson Chandler , who was twice burned by the Dallas Mavericks, would have an axe to grind...
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Sonny's Top 50 NBA Players: #27 Chris Bosh
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . Resume: 21.1 points, 7.0 rebounds, 2.2 assists, 35.4 minutes, 46% FG, 38% 3PT, 77% FT ... Team Record in Games Played: 19-25 (18-20 without) ... All-Star After four consecutive...
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Sonny's Top 50 NBA Players: #29 Dwyane Wade
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . Resume: 21.5 points, 3.5 rebounds, 4.8 assists, 1.2 steals, 31.8 minutes, 47% FG, 28% 3PT, 77% FT ... Team Record in Games Played: 28-34 (9-9 without) ... All-Star Over...
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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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Fantasy Basketball: Top 20 Power Forwards 2015-16
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . Here are the Top 20 power forwards in fantasy basketball for the upcoming 2015-16 season. The players are ranked based on the standard nine categories of Points, Rebounds, Assists,...
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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...
