When Paint is Not Enough: NBA All Star Weekend Comes to New Orleans

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 When Paint is Not Enough: NBA All Star Weekend Comes to New Orleans
Last weekend the NBA All-Star Game came to New Orleans, and both players as well as the league attempted to leave something positive behind. But the problems in NOLA far transcend what David Stern and the NBA brought to the table. [link]

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Published 2/21/2008 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... stands, the first round matchups in the West will be must see TV but every match up in the East will be wait until the second round TV." The Hornets get a quality bench scorer -- Bonzi Wells -- from a division rival. The Rockets, on the other hand, have Carl Landry emerging to eat those minutes, and land a quality bench guard in Bobby Jackson. On first analysis, I'd call this trade a win-win. The wild card is Wells' attitude, which has been known to hurt teams. The story the City of New Orleans is glad wasn't told much during ...

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