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Ranking the NBA Title Favorites
All-Star Weekend has now come and gone (highlighted by a terrific dunk contest ), and as NBA fans are well aware that pretty much means that we're in the home stretch of the season. While...
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City to City, Coast to Coast: Ish Smith is Mr. Opportunity
Image courtesy of the Philadelphia 76ers/Facebook . The ball never stops bouncing for Ish Smith . Undrafted, undersized and overlooked, the journey to basketball stardom is a never ending one. Five years, eleven different teams,...
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2016 NBA All-Star Weekend: Klay Thompson Shines in the Three-Point Shootout
Screen capture courtesy of the NBA/YouTube The NBA All-Star Three-Point Shootout captured the attention of many Saturday night, and for good reason as it was a star-studded event. Stephen Curry won last year, and was...
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Top Four NBA MVP Candidates Thus Far
Ah, the big question hanging over everybody's head - who is up high on the NBA MVP ladder? I'll be looking at individual performances, but heavily favoring team accomplishments as well. So, sorry James Harden...
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Post Game Quotes and Highlights: 76ers vs. Raptors
Image courtesy of the Philadelphia 76ers/Facebook . A collection of post-game comments from the Philadelphia 76ers following their loss to the Toronto Raptors. BRETT BROWN On Raptors “That’s a playoff team and that might be...
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Smith's Career Night is Not Enough as Sixers Fall to Raptors
Image courtesy of the Philadelphia 76ers/Facebook . Following their blowout loss to the Atlanta Hawks, the usually upbeat and optimistic Brett Brown was critical of his team, saying they “played with no spirit” and “no...
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Scola, DeRozan Lead Raptors Over Sixers 96-76
Image courtesy of the Philadelphia 76ers/Facebook . Hampered by mindless turnovers and ice cold shooting, the Philadelphia 76ers fell 96-76 to the Toronto Raptors Sunday night, dropping Philly to 1-24 on the season and 0-14...
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Kings Make it Three in a Row, Beat Raptors 107-101
Image courtesy of Michael Tipton/Flickr . Finding any form of stability is a complete sigh of relief for not only the fans of Sacramento basketball but also the players. The Kings are now 4-5 at...
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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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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...
