Heat-stroke? Miami’s title dreams will go up in smoke if they don’t learn to play a ‘team’ game, hit 3’s
SCOTT JACOBS
The Miami Heat were up 26-17 late in the first quarter, leaving a blaze of 10 made baskets in a row behind them. The mustard yellow t-shirt clad Midwest crowd was quiet, anxious, teetering on a brink of nerves that the star-laden Heat (even without their third guy Chris Bosh) were ready to blow [...]
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Holy Clips! LA pulls off shocker, overcomes 24 point deficit to stun Grizzlies
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48 minutes.
Not 40. Not 42. Not 46.
In the NBA if you don’t play every minute of playoff basketball with untempered enthusiasm and smarts, you could be prone to the pitfalls of history. And not the good kind.
It was 95-71 with 8 minutes remaining, the Grizzlies had the lead. And then Rudy Gay got into [...]
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Rose’s ACL injury a devastating blow to Bulls: another reminder that health is guaranteed to no one
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The Bulls have overcome adversity before. With their 2011 MVP Derrick Rose shelved for nearly 27 games in this lockout shortened season due to various injuries, Chicago banded together, showing an impressive resilience and team resolve that helped them finish off the best record in the NBA for the second consecutive season.
They beat some [...]
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The sad tale of the Suns: once a shining star, now buried in irrelevance
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Sports run in cycles. For most franchises, tasting victory consistently is a hard fought process, that takes years of great drafting, deft trades, and savvy personnel at the top. It takes luck, skill, vision, facilities, and an owner committed to some kind of winning.
You don’t just luck into a championship. Titles don’t fall from [...]
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Wade: ‘I do not want to be paid to go to the Olympics’; Should Olympians be compensated?
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Just a day after stating that he felt Olympic basketball players should be paid, creating a fascinating national debate about the essence of the Olympics, Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade retracted his statement on Thursday, saying, “I do not want to be paid to go to the Olympics.”
But what do you think? Should Olympic [...]
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NBA Jersey Ads? Leagues selling their souls to make money? Do you care?
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The NBA is contemplating the idea of putting ads on their uniforms. Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is at the forefront of this debate, with his ideology being, if you can get the money, why not? But purists like myself appreciate sports and its history, and look back throughout the decades [...]
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Dennis Rodman: ‘extremely sick’ and ‘broke’: Do you feel sorry for Dennis the Menace?
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Once upon a time Dennis Rodman was the baddest bad boy of them all: a multi-colored, tatted up rebounding machine that played hard both on and off the court. Once linked with Madonna, Rodman was married briefly to Carmen Electra, one of his three failed marriages. He promoted his infamous [...]
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Austin Rivers, another 1 and done: Are Freshman defections killing quality of play in college hoops?
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Austin Rivers is off to the NBA according to sources close to the shooting guard, freshman sensation from Duke. Zero people should be shocked by this announcement. The top high school recruit in the country was pretty much a lock to bolt for the NBA if he had even a decent [...]
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