emptythebench.com - 5/11/2008
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It’s not something you’re going to work on in basketball camp, but Kobe actually manages to make an alley oop off the backboard to himself look like a fundamentally sound, high-percentage play. There aren’t too many people on the planet who can do this.
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Bobcats Sunday Linkage - May 11, 2008
Bobcat Bonfire —
... Alex Kingly starts talk about the Wiz offseason . Questions abound. Vivek also ponders the future for a Heat squad with an unknown at the helm Outer Hoops Blogtopia Links If in-depth reviews is your thing, don’t pass up 20 Second Timeout Spartacus unmasks at 3 Shades of Blue. He also reviews every Grizzly player’s statistical output as compared to his predictions last fall. Kobe= trust . Yeesh, enough already. On the other hand, who needs teammates? The Ben Wallace dilemma . It already brought down the Bulls. I have ...
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