rakemag.com - 6/5/2008
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Anyone who has watched the two NBA conferences from November to April this season, and then watched the respective conference matchups in the postseason, would be hard-pressed to deny that the Lakers should be favored in the final series that begins this evening in Boston. But let's begin by being counter-intuitive and considering the reasons--the legitimate reasons--for a potential Celtics ...
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Thursday Bullets
ESPN.com - TrueHoop —
... Britt Robson of the Rake: "Doc Rivers is in the Finals, which means he can legitimately tell all his critics to kiss his ass--seriously, this is legitimately as far as the Celts are supposed to go, and if Flip Saunders had made it here, he'd still have a job. But Mike Woodson, Mike Brown and Flip Saunders are not remotely in the same time zone as Phil Jackson in terms of playoff coaching prowess, and neither is Doc Rivers. Jackson's teams win the big ones--the dude has nine rings. When he sprang that small lineup on Gregg Popovich and the Spurs, it ...
NBA Teams as Batman Villains
Third Quarter Collapse —
... in 1940). Both entities are of the "love to hate" variety. And both entities enjoy toying with their victims before they strike. The Joker kills whomever he wants whenever he feels like it, and does so with glee just as the Lakers (and Kobe Bryant in particular - scroll down to the paragraph that begins with the words, "Consider that Denver") are similarly inclined to relish their ...
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