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by Craig Kwasniewski
"They come in and intimidate you and try to punk you. But if you don’t back down from them, they kind of fold."
Strong words from.... D.J. Augustin???? A rookie point guard from one of the worst franchises in the NBA is running it on THE GREATEST TEAM IN THE ...
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by Craig Kwasniewski
All right all you Celtics bandwagoners, if your beloved Rajon Rondo is such an All-Star (which he's not), then why are you willing to bring in the league's biggest cancer since J.R. Rider in Stephon Marbury? I'll get back to that in a second...
Let's look at the ...
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by Craig Kwasniewski Instead of a typical 316
report on the Lakers 100-86 win over Portland I'd
like to break down the first real match-up (Oden injured his knee and barely played back on opening night) between Greg Oden and Andrew Bynum. In ...
by Craig Kwasniewski
Trevor Ariza provided the necessary spark late in the fourth quarter as the Lakers held off a late Jazz rally on their way to a 113-100 victory . Ariza capped off a night of several key hustle plays with back-to-back steals late in the 4th quarter that led to ...
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by Craig Kwasniewski
Lost in the Pau Gasol finally grew a pair talk was just how thoroughly unimpressive Rajon Rondo was in Boston's 92-83 loss to the Lakers on Christmas Day . For weeks I keep hearing how Rondo is the secret behind THE GREATEST WINNING STREAK EVER and that he's ...
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by Craig Kwasniewski
Where Holocaust Survivors are offended happens...
The NBA needs to strongly reconsider those Christmas Day logos worn by the players yesterday. I'll let the photos speak for themselves but you might want to mix in an extra point on those NBA snowflakes because they ...
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by Craig Kwasniewski They say it's hard to
change a franchise mired for years from the culture
of losing to winning but Mike D'Antoni has done just that in NYC in literally weeks. He's taken the same roster that Isiah Thomas failed miserably ...
by Craig Kwasniewski
In soccer they call it bad form, in baseball they call it a slump and in golf they call it "not hitting the mark." Whatever it is Andrew Bynum's going through it as he played his worst game since the Kobe Video Guys era. That and a few other thoughts on the Lakers ...
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by Craig Kwasniewski
Boris Diaw and Raja Bell for J-Rich... Is that a good deal? Will this save the setting Suns 2008-09 season? How long will Larry Brown put up with Diaw's antics (taking games off, showing up in October out of shape, etc.)? Here are a few quick thoughts on the second ...
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Breaking Down Bynum vs. Oden