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NBA Essentials: Tim Duncan, Alternative Icon
FanHouse — Filed under: Hawks, Spurs, Timberwolves, Trail BlazersNBA Essentials ranks our six favorite stories of the day. 1. Hipster Runoff, via T.K. When I think of hipsters, I most definitely think of the Spurs. 2. Blazer's Edge. Will Greg Oden win Rookie of the Year? 3. The Sporting Blog. Josh Smith: "You're nothing without a good point guard." Take that, Tyronn Lue! 4. Wages of Wins Journal. ...

ETB’s Scribes of the NBA Interview Series - Dave Deckard of Blazer’s Edge
Empty the Bench — ... , a fantastic site “by Blazers fans, for Blazers fans.” The main leader over there is Dave Deckard, who writes almost daily about anything and everything surrounding this resurgent franchise. Wondering what’s up with Greg Oden’s recovery from last year’s microfracture surgery? Looking for in-depth analysis of all these youngsters everyone’s clamoring about? Dave does a wonderful job of breaking it down and framing his thoughts in terms of how it all fits into the bigger Blazers picture. Without further ado, we give you 10 questions with Dave Deckard as part of ETB’s ongoing ...

Wednesday Mini-Bullets
ESPN.com - TrueHoop — ... Dave from BlazersEdge on the possibility that Greg Oden might win Rookie of the Year: "The time has come for us to say, as a team and as fans, you can have your Rookie of the Year Award. We have more important fish to fry. I'm not saying that we'd turn down the honor or be unhappy should it fall in Greg's hands. That's fine and dandy. But it doesn't really matter. More often than not those things are sops to soothe the pain of losing teams, something to hang your hat on ini the off-season when the rest of reality is too bleak to contemplate. Been ...