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Danny Ainge: NBA Executive of the Year Favorite?
Isaiah Thomas , Tyler Zeller , Jonas Jerebko , Luigi Datome , and Jae Crowder . A 2015 Mavericks first-round pick, the Grizzlies 2017 first-round pick, a 2016 top-12 protected or two second-round picks from...
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Winners of the NBA Transactions Wire This Season
Image Courtesy of Alvin Domondon/Flickr You know what tradition I've never once enjoyed? The annual letdown that the NBA Trade Deadline turns out to be. Screw The Masters, now that's a tradition unlike any other....
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Kevin Garnett Receives a Hero's Welcome in Minnesota
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . Wednesday night, Kevin Garnett completed a whirl-wind tour that's saw him become an NBA world champion and league MVP. Last week's trade between the Brooklyn Nets and the Minnesota...
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Kevin Garnett and Flip Saunders Interested in Purchasing the Minnesota Timberwolves
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . There is a rumor that the return to Minnesota wasn’t just so Kevin Garnett could retire with the Timberwolves, or mentor the pack of young players the team has...
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NBA Pushes Rewind: Kevin Garnett Returns to the Minnesota Timberwolves
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . The Minnesota Timberwolves have re-acquired veteran forward Kevin Garnett at the NBA trade deadline. The Wolves shipped Thaddeus Young to the Brooklyn Nets in an attempt to have Garnett...
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Kevin Garnett: The Prodigal Son Returns
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . In 1995, the Minnesota Timberwolves picked a scrawny 18-year-old kid named Kevin Garnett with the No. 5 pick in the 1995 NBA Draft. The high school phenom had a...
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Kevin Garnett Headed Back to Minnesota
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr. Who says you can't go home again? Kevin Garnett , who spent the first 12 seasons of his career with the Minnesota Timberwolves is headed back to the place where...
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NBA All-Star Selection Oddities of the Last 25 Years
Image courtesy of Rondo Estrello/Flickr . When it comes down to it, the NBA All-Star Game is all about the fans. It has no tangible bearing on anything during the season or postseason (like baseball)....
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Mason Plumlee Leads Brooklyn Nets Past Sacramento Kings, 107-99
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . The Sacramento Kings played some of their least efficient basketball of the season in their matchup against the Brooklyn Nets, an Eastern playoff hopeful looking to move higher than...
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Rajon Rondo Giveaway: Danny Ainge Destroys the Celtics, Again
Image courtesy of DGA Productions/Flickr . Danny Ainge is an irresponsible simpleton hyperactively undercutting the Boston Celtics’ tradition of winning and excellence. Since Ainge assumed the reins as Executive Director of Basketball Operations in 2003,...
