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NBA On TNT Playoff Notes: Do Not Count Out The Spurs!

Mizzo posted 5/12/2008 from thestartingfive.net

Smith on the series getting tied up: “I think this series goes back to New Orleans tied. Tim Duncan will figure out a way to beat those double teams, (Parker and Ginobili) won’t need to get over 30 points tonight.”

ST. ANDREW'S NET: WANT TO SMELL LIKE ME?

Three Idiots on Sports found this 5/12/2008 on www.withleather.com

"Saint Andrew's Net" is With Leather's daily link dump, written by the bane of respectable journos and scrupulous primates alike, Michael Tunison. Expect sports and tits. The Angry T has a retrospective of the 25 worst athlete ads ever. I ...

The NBA Finally Has an MVP Whose Game Does Not Shrink in the Playoffs

BillJordaniv posted 5/12/2008 from www.bizofbasketball.com

I make outs I make other rappers have doubts You're (messing) with the wrong man and the wrong clan-- "Flava in ya ear," Craig Mack (and other artists), 1994 Dirk Nowitzki seemingly received the 2007 MVP in a broom closet at an undisclosed location after his Dallas Mavericks were bounced out of the first round of the playoffs. We just saw the 2005 and 2006 MVP, Steve Nash, make Tony Parker ...

Manu Ginobili Combover Watch: Western Conference Playoffs

Digital Headbutt posted 5/13/2008 from digitalheadbutt.wordpress.com

How fast Manu Ginobili's bald spot is developing toward combover status continues to be one of the NBA's great subplots.

The Bulls are ridiculously incompetent

Rickhouse posted 5/13/2008 from www.tremendousupsidepotential.com

It’s hard to bash two guys who have been as great to the Bulls organization as Jerry Reinsdorf and John Paxson have been over the course of their careers. Six titles, championship-clinching shots, and rebuilding from the Floyd-Cartwright mess is great. Those two guys deserve a lot of credit for all that. But since this mini Bulls resurgence started a few years ago, the two have had all the ...