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The Truth will set you free: Silver linings of Paul Pierce departing
Any sports fan should have felt it. It didn’t matter if you hate the city of Boston or if you barely follow basketball. If you saw Paul Pierce at the podium during his first meet-and-greet...
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NBA Fandom Games: Boston Celtics
Whereupon an NBA free-agent fan sets about selecting a team to root for during the 2013-14 NBA season. Conventional wisdom regarding NBA franchise-building has been suddenly seized by the notion that there are only two...
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NBA players on the move: Top 10 old faces in new places
Remember how excited you were to see where some of your favorite NBA players would be headed during free agency, and possibly by trade? Do you remember some of the trade scenarios you played out...
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Danny Ainge, GM of the year?
“The beauty of things must be that they end.” JLK Chris Rock said it best. “(The) Nets just gave up 3 first round draft picks to be in fourth place for one year.” Even better...
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Boston Celtics and Brooklyn Nets trade made official
I hope you had your cameras out, because the Boston Celtics are not the Celtics of old any longer. In a trade made and agreed upon on draft day and finalized Friday, the Brooklyn Nets...
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The Boston Celtics: Five stages of grief
As a Boston Celtics fan still reeling from the recent implosion of one of the great Celtics eras in franchise history, I was finally able to acknowledge within myself today that I’ve fully gone through...
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Who's going to run this town? Knicks-Nets rivalry set to be the main event!
There are a number of different ways to cross the East River to get between Manhattan and Brooklyn. You have the iconic bridges, the Midtown Tunnel, and pretty much every subway line runs between the...
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Moves of Billy King in context
I am a Brooklyn Nets fan, hear me meh. As a follower of the Nets, I have had no lack of experience in moves that are generally panned by the NBA blogosphere. Last year, Billy...
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Is Brooklyn in the House? New additions will feel right at home with the Brooklyn Nets
Image from Ryan Hurst Designs Let’s get one thing clear: in this game, money talks. Brooklyn Nets owner, Mikhail Dmitrievitch Prokhorov lives by that mantra and nothing shows that more than what he’s willing to...
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The Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett Trade Effect
"You Maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! God damn you all to hell!" That was literally my reaction last night when Twitter began to light up with heartfelt goodbyes to Paul Pierce and Kevin...
