Longform Shoals: The Rest of the West

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sports.aol.com - 10/24/2007

Longform Shoals: The Rest of the West

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This is Mike Miller , who should shoot gobs of threes this season for the Memphis Grizzlies in the playoffs. Yes, the team with 22 wins last year will probably make it to the show, though they will have zero chance of harvesting a title. Miller, and dozen other funny-looking role players on second-tier teams, are the bane of Western Conference heavyweights. What did we learn from the ...

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We Interrupt Ourselves
freedarko.com — And the trance-like focus of our EVERY SINGLE PLAYER PREVIEW for a few off-site announcements. Firstly, Longform is back. Again. My Western preview is up, and it's a lot jazzier than my view of the East . I also highly recommend you keep an eye on Deadspin , which will host a week's worth of FD player profiles from now 'til 10/30. Believe.

Wolves Updates 10/25
TWolves Blog - Minnesota Timberwolves News and Articles — ... Point guards Foye and Sebastian Telfair each took nearly full part in the extended practice Wednesday. Still, neither is 100 percent and their availability for Friday's preseason finale isn't yet clear. "We'll see where they are [today]," Witt- man said. Shooting guard Rashad McCants (knee) also returned to practice after missing two preseason games. Shoals/Fanhouse on the team's roster: It all adds up to a personnel quagmire which will get trounced seventy-five percent of the time. Still, you should keep an eye on their box scores. Someone other than Jefferson is going to ...

FanHouse: Thu AM 'Playboy Models Aren't Necessarily Athletes' Edition
John Clifford Ness — ... Longform Shoals: The Rest of the West: What did we learn from the 2006-07 Mavericks? That for the West's heavy hitters (which is to say the NBA's), life is grim. For them, the first eighty-two games do is ramp up expectations, until anything less than a title is a disappointment. Ask the Suns, or the Kings before them. Or the Spurs, whose entire philosophy follows from this joyless premise. ...