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JORDAN WAGNER
So, did anybody hear that the Lakers are out? I am of course being facetious, because the words “Lakers” and “swept” usually mean “The Lakers swept,” not “The Lakers got SWEPT.” But that’s exactly what happened as the L.A. went down 0-4 to Dallas in Phil Jackson’s last year coaching in the NBA. Pepper [...]

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Miami finally finishes off the pesky Eastern Conference champs with a sensational 16-0 run
SCOTT JACOBS
It wasn’t The Finals.  It wasn’t even the Eastern Conference Finals, but Miami needed to oust the champs – the fading, aging, beat up, almost unrecognizable by the end of the series Celtics – to get closer to their goal.  [...]

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Memphis and Oklahoma City resume their barnburner of a series tonight with the winner closing in on a trip to the Conference Finals, where Dallas awaits
SCOTT JACOBS
It was a game so good it just had to be fattening.
A marathon so helterskelter it was borderline dizzying.
Deep into the night and early into the morning, the Thunder [...]

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Miami’s huge win over Boston has the Heat on the verge of the Conference Finals.  Now imagine if they actually passed the ball on a consistent basis like normal teams do
SCOTT JACOBS
The Miami Heat won a game they had to have tonight over a desperate Boston Celtics team that fought tooth and nail to make [...]

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After another gutsy fourth quarter comeback and more Lakers late game miscues, the Mavericks can book their ticket to the conference finals, cause the champs ain’t coming back
SCOTT JACOBS
Bury them.  Stick a fork in them. Cut them up to pieces and serve them to the pooches.
The Lakers are done.  Finished.  It’s over.  No team has [...]

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We interviewed him last year and roughly a year later we’ve brought him back for more.  Talking NFL Draft remixes, Lockouts, Twitter, Advertising, and NBA Finals predictions with the one, the only D.J. Steve Porter
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A year ago Steve Porter was a fresh face in a crowded field.  Chances are you, the sports fan, didn’t [...]

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The NBA needs a new rivalry, Miami-Oklahoma City could be just what it’s looking for
JOSH MASER
Lakers-Celtics
It’s a rivalry that every NBA fan knows. The history, the players, the intensity. Any time those two teams meet, the country takes notice, especially in the NBA finals, where they have met 12 times.
But what makes this matchup even [...]

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With the Mavericks sporting an 11 point lead and just under three minutes to play, they needed that one last basket to put the nail in L.A.’s game two coffin.  Dirk Nowitzki was well up to the challenge.  Dirk backed down his defender briefly as the shot-clock wound down inside of 5, and hoisted [...]

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