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City of Hope: Boston Is Pulling for the Celtics

By Mike Dinella • April 19, 2015

I cannot and will say that I knew the Boston Celtics would make the postseason. No one in this universe had the Celtics playing late in April, not myself or any other highly optimistic Celtics...

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LeBron James Is Not the Best Player in the NBA This Year

By Aaron Lanton • April 17, 2015

Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . Baller Mind Frame's No Layups brings you the hottest NBA stories on the web mixed with personal opinion from our very own Aaron Lanton . Check it often and...

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Cleveland Cavaliers Stampede Over Dallas Mavericks, Rick Carlisle Takes the Bullet

By TJ Macías • March 11, 2015

Image courtesy of TJ Macias/Baller Mind Frame. The visiting Cleveland Cavaliers devoured the Dallas Mavericks 127-94 and didn't even have the courtesy to leave the bones for Mavs’ fans to weep helplessly over. Despite Chandler...

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Fantasy Basketball: Shooting Guard Shuffle

By Erik Ong • January 06, 2015

Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . The Cleveland Cavaliers, New York Knicks, and the Oklahoma City Thunder recently engaged in a three-team trade. In the core of the deal are Cleveland's Dion Waiters , as...

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Last Time on 'As LeBron Turns': Dion Waiters Traded

By Aaron Lanton • January 06, 2015

Image courtesy of Erik Daniel Drost/Flickr . Baller Mind Frame's No Layups brings you the hottest NBA stories mixed with personal opinion from our very own Aaron Lanton . Check it often and absorb the...

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New York Knicks Media Day: Unfinished Business

By Justin Lerner • October 01, 2014

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NBA Season Preview: New York Knicks Team Preview

By Mister King • September 25, 2014

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The Complete History of Carmelo Anthony Part 5: The Myth of Mr. Big Shot

By Drew Creasman • August 18, 2014

Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . Four games. Three referees. Two in-bound passes. And Chauncey Billups. They love Chauncey Billups in Denver. He is one of their own. The basketball gym at CU (where I...

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The Complete History Of Carmelo Anthony Part 4: The Case For Open Playoff Seeding

By Drew Creasman • July 31, 2014

Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . If the Denver Nuggets' - and therefore Carmelo Anthony's - 2006-07 season was an episode of Game of Thrones filled with casualties, dynamic personalities prone to explode, battles and...

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The Complete History of Carmelo Anthony Part 3: The Allen Iverson Era

By Drew Creasman • July 24, 2014

Image courtesy of GM/Flickr. If you ask me, the most heart-wrenching, convoluted, and insanity-inducing two-word phrase in the English language is “what if.” There is a scene in the second Matrix movie (stick with me)...