sportingnews.com - 4/3/2008
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By Bethlehem Shoals
I understand why the Suns made a "now or never" deal: With Nash so key to their team, they were in that position already. The Mavs, though, got older for the sake of getting older. Now, with their championship hopes hinging on Jason Kidd, that ticking clock has suddenly settled down in Dallas.
For this reason alone, there was a certain poetic justice in Dirk's ...
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Can We Abolish the 'Dirk is Soft' Mantra Now?
FanHouse —
... last year. Dirk boasts career playoff per-game averages of 25 points and 11 rebounds. Dirk's team (on which he plays more minutes than anyone) has been in top half of the league in defensive rating every year (including this one) since 2004-05. Dirk was not soft before he came back from a nasty high ankle sprain in less than two weeks' time (when the usual prognosis is at least a month). Hopefully, the attention from Dirk's miracle reanimation (and impending title run, perhaps?) will end all the nonsensical bashing of Nowitzki which has gone on too long. ...
Blizzard: Why is it so fun to end any sentence with "suckers"?
Pacifist Viking —
... The Dallas Mavericks could miss the playoffs, or they could be a serious title contender. Shoals says "If anyone tries to feed me a Cinderella narrative for Dallas, I'll puke all over them. That 'anyone,' not the team." ...
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