indystar.com - 1/26/2009
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Indiana Pacers president Larry Bird and coach Jim O'Brien are doing their part to get forward Danny Granger selected as a reserve for next month's All-Star Game in Phoenix. Bird and O'Brien recently sent a packet, including a personal letter, about Granger to Eastern Conference coaches to get ...
sports.espn.go.com - 1/25/2009
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We're going to do it, as always, just
like the coaches do it. Instructions for how to...
select All-Star reserves were e-mailed to all 30 teams Friday, with the head coaches in each conference asked to vote for seven players -- but none of their own -- ...
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Weekend Dime: Picking the most deserving All-Star ...
sportingnews.com - 1/22/2009
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sportingnews.com —
Welcome to Shoals Unlimited , where Bethlehem will
post a long-form piece on basketball once a week....
One of the most familiar, and reviled, cliches in the quiver of writers (and lousy scouts) is the sweeping "good stats on a bad team". ...
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Shoals Unlimited: Losers Need All-Star Love, Too
blogs.hoopshype.com - 1/25/2009
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The best players in the league are obvious...
LeBron, Kobe, D-Wade, Dwight Howard, etc… But those guys...
are like a great movie we watch all the time. We know the outcome and we are addicted to seeing it time and time again. But the feeling we got when ...
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... Mike Wells of The Indianapolis Star: "Indiana Pacers president Larry Bird and coach Jim O'Brien are doing their part to get forward Danny Granger selected as a reserve for next month's All-Star Game in Phoenix. Bird and O'Brien recently sent a packet, including a personal letter, about Granger to Eastern Conference coaches to get them to vote for the fourth-year forward. ... 'We wanted them to have information so that they would really look hard at what Danny has meant to the Indiana Pacers, along with every pertinent statistical category of things he has done ...
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... Mike Wells, Indianapolis Star: "Indiana Pacers president Larry Bird and coach Jim O'Brien are doing their part to get forward ...
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Don't Mess With Danny Granger Sr.
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blogs.indystar.com 2/6/2009 — PHILADELPHIA -- Well, the question that has been moving into the foreground is now squarely on the front burner: Should Danny Granger sit a few games to rest his sore right knee?
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