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Iverson and the Knicks: What Could Have Been
Allen Iverson, one of the games greatest players and arguably the third best shooting guard in league history, was so close to getting a chance at resurrecting his career and turning the New York Knicks into a lovable team.
Fans were ecstatic when ...
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Hornets Buzz: Four Games With Coach Jeff Bower
With the surprising win last night against the Phoenix Suns, Jeff Bower evened his coaching record to 2-2 and improved the New Orleans Hornets' overall record to 5-8.
When Coach Byron Scott was fired Hornets' fans expected the worst, even more so ...
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Denver Nuggets-Los Angeles Clippers: Game Preview
The Denver Nuggets (8-3) take on the Los Angeles Clippers (4-9) tonight at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The Nuggets are coming off of a dominant performance against the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday night, in one of their most impressive ...
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Tracy McGrady Situation Is a Dicey One For Houston Rockets
Houston Rockets guard and former cornerstone Tracy McGrady hasn't played in an NBA game since Feb. 9 against Milwaukee last season.
A few days later, it was announced that McGrady would undergo season-ending microfracture surgery on his left knee. ...
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Pivot Points: The San Antonio Spurs Are a Brittle Bunch
It was inevitable that it would come to this. However, the fact that it is happening so early in the season is a little surprising. It was announced, in a rare statement from the San Antonio Spurs, that Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker would miss time ...
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Clippers No More? It's Time to Consider a Name Change
I am all for consistency. I believe in sticking with a rookie through tough times. Letting a manager live out his contract no matter what his record. I love watching Phil Jackson not call a time-out when his team is floundering; preferring ...
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Michael Jordan: A Little More Humble Than We May Have Thought?
Michael Jordan dominated our television sets in the 1990s, winning six championships and representing excellence in the highest degree. Even after a failed attempt at baseball and an uninspiring comeback with the Washington Wizards, Jordan remains a ...
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NBA MVP Award: What It Takes To Win the Maurice Podoloff Trophy
What does it take to win the NBA's MVP Award? Heart. Grit. Determination. Every winner of the award has displayed the same immeasurable throughout the coarse of the year, but those adjectives cannot be quantified—or can they? Since Bob Pettit ...
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New York Knicks Needed Allen Iverson
The NBA is about winning, just like every other sport. It is also about entertainment. You must entertain the people that decide to dedicate three hours of their life to watch your product. The 2009-2010 New York Knicks are as exciting as a Joe ...
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LeBron James Needs to Take a Hint and Take His Game Inside
Still a team in search of its identity, the Cleveland Cavaliers stutter-stepped their way to an 8-4 record through the first month of the season, placing them barely ahead of Milwaukee atop the NBA’s Central Division.
A stinging loss to the ...
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Miami-Toronto: Raptors Just the Tonic for What Ails Dwyane Wade and Heat
I sometimes wonder if the South Florida Sun-Sentinel’s Ira Winderman even likes the Miami Heat. He’s one of that paper’s beat writers for the team, but the vast majority of the articles he writes about the boys from South Beach seem negative.
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Fantasy Basketball Box Score Breakouts – 11/19/09
Here’s a look at some fantasy basketball players that blew up the box score last night.
Jared Dudley, Phoenix Suns
28 MIN, 17 PTS, 5-G FG, 2-2 FT, 5 3PM, 5 REB, 2 AST, 2 STL, 1 TO
Dudley has been pulling down a fair amount of rebounds for ...
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What's the Answer For the Knicks? Not Iverson...
The Knicks have problems.
In searching for solutions for an NBA team's struggles, one would inevitably stumble upon The Answer. The problem is that The Answer is really no answer at all. Just part of the same old solution that has failed the Knicks ...
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Allen Iverson
New York Knicks
Bill Simmons' Signing
With nothing else to do last night, I decided to brave the traffic on highway 26 and head out to the Borders in Beaverton to experience the Bill Simmons book signing. Kudos to Borders for doing a great job of managing the event. It was ...
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Bill Simmons
Portland Blazers
Detroit Pistons
Terrapin Basketball Misses Mark on Graduation Rates
To be fair, there are but a few scholarships allotted for any collegiate basketball program. So one or two guys not making the five-year mark on graduation can really bring a program under uninformed scrutiny.
But the Maryland Terrapins are ...
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Los Angeles-Denver: Clipper Crystal Ball
Great news. The crystal ball is back from the shop.
They charged me an arm and a leg for the repair, but I have two of each so I paid up. The ball is polished and ready to dispense solid and accurate information about tonight's battle between ...
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Hide The Women And Children, Tracy Is At It Again
It never fails. It really, truly, never fails. Tracy "You Better Still Call Me T-Mac" Mcgrady is at it again.
This happens every time we show the slightest hint of optimism about him, every time a sliver of hope peaks through the shroud of darkness ...
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Houston Rockets
Tracy McGrady
Game 14: Blazers @ Warriors, 7:30 P.M.
Golden State Warriors coverage at Fear the Beard .
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Analysis
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Andre Miller has been a bit inconsistent lately. Some days he's scoring, others he's dishing out the assists. Tonight he'll ...
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Portland Blazers
Raja Bell
Tracy McGrady Needs To Grow Up
Tracy McGrady’s latest temper tantrum with Houston Rockets head coach Rick Adelman has me convinced the six-time All-Star has lost his mind.
The latest outbreak, which occurred in Minnesota prior to the start of the game , has me wondering if ...
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The New York Week That Was (11/20/09)
The Knicks won a game this week!
And The Answer may be coming to New York (so the question must be: Will a desperate team do anything to keep their fans interested?). But with last Friday’s loss, the Knicks established the worst 10-game start in ...
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Allen Iverson to the Knicks: Why Not?
First of all, let me say that I didn't think it was possible for Allen Iverson to actually have a worse stop than he did in Detroit last season.
The photo above is quite the rare one: it captures Allen Iverson playing in a Memphis Grizzlies ...
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Mavericks' Guards Battle for Minutes
You want players to compete with one another in order to improve. Competition provides a challenge, a challenge proving worth and value. NBA teams witness this very spectacle in training camps, practices, and even games.
The Dallas Mavericks ...
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Knicks Legend Earl Monroe to Appear at Best Buy in New York City
One of the NBA’s most flashy and dazzling players of all time is coming to New York City, but no, I am not talking about Allen Iverson…yet.
Event Info:
NBA Legend: Earl Monroe
Date: Saturday, November 21
Location: Best Buy 1531
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What Could Have Been? If Steve Nash and Dirk Nowitzki Were Still Teammates
Watching Steve Nash direct the Suns offense is a thing of beauty.
The way he maneuvers between defenders reminds me of a skilled touring car driver swerving in and out of traffic, interchangeably switching his dribble from left to right so as to ...
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Collison and Thornton Earning Their Stingers With Jeff Bower as Coach
Jeff Bower drafted rookies Darren Collison (21st) and Marcus Thornton (43rd) to make marginal contributions over the season. For Thornton, provide desperately needed scoring from the wings and as for Collison spell some minutes from Chris Paul.
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Dirk Nowitzki: From MVP to Under-the-Radar Superstar
Let's go back two-and-a-half years to April 2007.
To the objection of many (myself included), Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki appeared to be a mortal lock to win the MVP award.
(Steve Nash had the better season, and actually deserved the ...
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Dirk Nowitzki
Dallas Mavericks
Jason Terry
Josh Howard
Shawn Marion
Erick Dampier
The Evolution of the NBA Poster Prop
As passionate NBA fans, we have witnessed change since day one; the peach basket and leather ball has come a long way.
We have seen the progress of game play and the growth of different hair styles. And let’s face it; the change hasn't always been ...
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Chicago Bulls
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Vince Carter
Tracy McGrady
Michael Jordan
LeBron James
Sloth Is A Sin: NBA Recapping, Previewing and Self-Pitying
If you're one of our loyal fans who regularly checks and reads Bring Back Novak , I'd first off like to thank you for your support. All two of you. And I guess I can't really count myself, so thanks for reading my articles, Billy. It means a lot.
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Houston Rockets
Allen Iverson: Broadway Bound?
As you all know, the Allen Iverson era in Memphis came to an end this past week as the Grizzlies and Iverson came to a mutual agreement to part ways. Iverson spent just under two months in Memphis, but it was quite clear that this situation simply ...
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Pivot Points: Carmelo Anthony For MVP?
The worst misfortune in Carmelo Anthony's young career may be the fact that he was drafted in the same year as LeBron James and Dwyane Wade.
While James and Wade found their names brought up in every conversation about the MVP, Anthony has become ...
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Houston Rockets Continuing to Grow, Mold, Succeed As a Team
I know we’re only 12 games into the NBA season, but the Houston Rockets continue to amaze me.
Forget the fact that the media constantly writes off the Rockets; they keep on winning on the hardwood, and that’s all that really matters.
One game ...
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Pivot Points: Gasol's Return Means All Is Well In Lakerland
The moment that Los Angeles Lakers fans have been waiting for has finally arrived.
Pau Gasol is set to make his season debut tonight against the Chicago Bulls, and the throngs of purple and gold can rejoice.
It's not clear how much Gasol will ...
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NBA Early Surprises: Brandon Jennings And The Atlanta Hawks
One thing that never gets old in the world of sports are the "I never saw this coming" kind of surprises.
Already this season we have witnessed the emergence of 10th overall draft pick Brandon Jennings, the 20-year-old punk who played in Europe ...
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Could the Minnesota Timberwolves Really Go 8-74?
I believed in David Kahn, new head of basketball operations for the Minnesota Timberwolves, but eleven consecutive losses later, and its getting really hard to not fault the guy for the team's lack of depth and passion.
Not only did they lose ...
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Game 13: Blazers 87, Pistons 81
Box Score
The Blazers nearly blew a 20-point advantage in the second half to a very mediocre Detroit Pistons team last night. The lead dwindled down to one before some clutch free throw shooting by Andre Miller and Steve Blake put the ...
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Detroit Pistons
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Steve Blake
Andre Miller
Rant on NBA Referees: Can the Toronto Raptors Get a Call?
Since the home opener this season, the Toronto Raptors seem to be on the outs with the NBA referees.
I’ll admit to wearing a Raptors’ Fans Glasses. But it seems that when it matters, the Raptors are being held back by some highly biased NBA ...
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Four NBA Players You Don't Want To Meet In A Back Alley
Although we aren't dealing with the Jailblazers fiasco anymore, NBA players seem to have a predisposition to getting in trouble with the law.
While I won't include the many, many DWI's that NBA players get, it's upsetting on a personal note that they ...
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Jason Williams
Allen Iverson
Ron Artest
Los Angeles Clippers-Memphis Grizzlies: Understatements Abound
"We're a better team than we're showing right now." - Sebastian Telfair "Today we just were not on the same page defensively." - Marcus Camby "We're not unified. We're not all on the same page." - Baron Davis "That's been our lack of ...
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Miami-Atlanta: Heat Needed a Hero in 105-90 Loss to Hawks—Calling Wade
Bonnie Tyler is famous for her song “Holding Out For a Hero.” In it, she sings that she needs a hero, and I know exactly how she feels, for I, and all Heat fans, need a hero badly.
Since 2004-05, the Miami Heat and its fans have had that hero, ...
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Fantasy Basketball Box Score Breakouts – 11/18/09
Here’s a look at some fantasy basketball players that blew up the box score last night.
James Harden, Oklahoma City Thunder 31 minutes, 24 points, 7-14 FG, 4-4 FT, 6 three-pointers, 3 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal, 1 turnover
You knew he had ...
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Knicks, Raptors, or Another: Who Should a Scottish Italian Support?
While you are sleeping, we catch up on your sporting action. And as we are heading to bed, you are usually settling down to watch the day's big game.
By necessity, the UK-based fan of US sports is an unusual creature.
You could argue that we have ...
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Portland Trailblazers-Detroit Pistons: Brandon Roy Needs Help in the Fourth
The excitement in the air was palpable. These Blazers were coming off a 4-1 road trip that included a road win over the Hornets. In some ways, that brought relief.
After all, the season got off to a rugged start with two home losses that both ...
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Portland Blazers
Detroit Pistons
Brandon Roy
Atlanta Hawks Making the NBA Take Notice
When experts were asked who would be contending for an NBA Championship in 2009-10, I believe they mentioned the following teams: Cleveland Cavaliers, San Antonio Spurs, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, and Orlando Magic.
I don't think any of ...
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After Rough Start, Spurs Need Offense and Defense to Come Together
" Come together, right now"
—The Beatles
So, San Antonio defended at a championship level in Dallas and still failed to capture its first road victory?
Jefferson was awful in the clutch again, and the offense looked at times like it belonged ...
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Baron Davis to Golden State? Oh Baby, Bring the Boom Dizzle Back To the Bay
The Warriors don't even need Monta Ellis, who looked like John Starks tonight in Boston.
So this is the beginning of MTK's demand that the Warriors effect the Monta Ellis for Baron Davis trade immediately.
Don, dammit, stfu this time and let the ...
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LA Lakers Should Not Imitate USC Trojans Basketball's Losing Playbook
What do an NBA team and a college basketball squad have in common? They don’t show up to finish a game.
The LA Lakers have unfortunately taken a page out of the USC book over the past week, allowing their opponents to do whatever they want in the ...
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Could Allen Iverson Really Come Back to the Denver Nuggets?
Today a report broke about perennial All-Star Allen Iverson looking for a new team, as he’s not yet ready to quit playing the game he loves—NBA basketball.
The fact that A.I. still has the burn inside that makes him yearn for an ever elusive ...
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Before They Self-Destruct, Wizards Beat Cleveland
A tale of two halves, a tale of two players. Choose your own lede to describe how the Washington Wizards bounced the Cleveland Cavaliers 108-91 in a legitimate must-win game , but make sure that the point about the Wizards avoiding destruction ...
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Antwan Jamison's Return Makes Wizards Contenders
Antawn Jamison made his season debut tonight against the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the Wizards looked like a rejuvenated team with him in the lineup.
Many preseason prognostications had the Wizards finishing as high as fourth in the Eastern ...
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Washington Wizards
Antawn Jamison
Cleveland Cavaliers
Five Things The Hornets Win Over The LA Clippers Reveals
Although ESPN predicted a New Orleans victory over the LA Clippers last night, I must admit that I was not extremely confident. The first two games of the Jeff Bower era did not look much different then the last few games of the Byron Scott era.
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