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The NBA’s marquee franchises have dominated the league like no other, leaving marks that are pretty much untouchable for the rest of the NBA’s 28 teams.

SCOTT JACOBS
When the NBA Finals tip off on Thursday it will look very familiar.  Green and White versus Purple and Gold.  Boston versus Los Angeles.  Sunny versus Dreary.  17 versus [...]

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Orlando had to play a perfect game in game 6.  To put it bluntly, they didn’t
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In order to make history, you have to put yourself in position to defy it.
The Magic walked into the TD Garden on Friday night halfway home to a feat no NBA team had ever accomplished.
And they walked out, halfway [...]

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The Bostonian comedian goes after zone defense, college educations, Dick Motta, baseball and more in another classic sports rant
PAUL NARDIZZI
Kobe and the Lakers are now tied 2-2 with the Suns.  The Lakers, a team most NBA losers thought would roll to the Finals, are now in a dogfight that could go the distance.  The Lakers [...]

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With toughness and big time production from what had been an underachieving bench, the revived Suns head back to L.A. tied at 2, very much alive
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The Phoenix Suns waited three grueling games to see their much ballyhooed bench finally produce.
On Tuesday, their bench did more than that.  They outplayed the Lakers… starters, and set [...]

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Is two epic Beantown collapses possible in the same month?  Logic says no, but crazier things have happened before
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Alive.  By the skin of their chinny, chin, chin.
Their bluebacksides nearly halfway out the door, Orlando is still kicking.  The odds are still thoroughly stacked against them as they attempt to chip away at a deficit [...]

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Phoenix finally joins the series in a spirited game 3 win.  That’s Amar’e!
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En route to Phoenix I almost anticipated a breaking news story, reporting that the Lakers had changed their flight plans and were heading back to Tinseltown.  Afterall, the media had conceded them the series.  It wasn’t that they were up 2-0 heading [...]

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The Boston Bruins pulled off one of the greatest collapses in NHL history over the weekend.
PAUL NARDIZZI, Boston comedian
After blowing a 3-0 series lead, the Bruins did themselves even prouder by taking a commanding 3-0 lead in game 7, only to blow that to a Philadelphia Flyer team that was seemingly dead in the [...]

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MITCH BLATT
One of JSB’s inside sports sources confirmed that Delonte West did in fact have an affair with LeBron James’ mother, Gloria James. The confirmation comes from a source who broke the C.C. Sabathia trade in 2008 on Juiced Sports Blog.
Apparently, many of the Cavs were going out to party in Boston. James [...]

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