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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Jeremy Lin inks huge Volvo marketing deal to explode sales in China market
Jeremy Lin’s Volvo endorsement deal is one of his first endorsement deals, and it could mean an increase in sales for Volvo in China. Volvo, which is owned by the Chinese company Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, is to announce a deal today that will have Jeremy Lin endorsing Volvo in several international markets including China. [...]
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Mike D’Antoni resigns; Can New York win a title with Melo, S.T.A.T. and Lin?
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Back in February when Linsanity was taking over planet earth, a number of people still remained skeptical. Not just of Jeremy Lin, but of the Knicks and their ability to sustain their resurgence. Some thought the Knicks were contenders, others believed they were a year away. Few could have foreseen [...]
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Deadline dealing: How Dwight Howard, Deron Williams, and one big move (or failed one) can alter the NBA’s power structure
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The short term and possibly long term future of NBA franchises hang in the balance. Reload or rebuild. Take a chance or blow it up and start anew.
Dwight Howard is available. Rajon Rondo is being dangled as trade bait. The Lakers already tried to ship Pau Gasol out of town but David Stern had [...]
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What should LeBron do? He’s damned regardless, can’t win no matter what
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LeBron James loses even when he wins. And when he wins a lot he still loses, because a winning streak has to end eventually, and when a winning streak in which you beat teams by double digits nine straight times ends in dramatic, gut-wrenching fashion, with him passing up the final shot, despite an [...]
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Expanding the MLB Playoffs – is it natural evolution or inevitable devolution?
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In 1939 college hoops instituted what would become the NCAA tournament, an 8 team single elimination playoff, to crown a champion. There were 3 rounds and none of the games were televised. Why? Well, television didn’t exist at the tourney’s birth. Twelve years later, the tournament was expanded to 16. A few years later [...]
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Sacramento Stability! The Kings are staying put for the first time in franchise history
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Scrappy Sacramento is the capital city to the behemoth that is California, and like many other smaller capital cities lost in the shuffle of a massive state, Sac-Town isn’t a household city to the average person. When you think about Sacramento, what do you think of? Besides the capitol of the Golden Coast, it [...]
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Presenting DJ Steve Porter’s ‘All He Does is Lin’
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DJ Steve Porter is a good friend of the site, and we’ve already conducted two interviews with the worldwide sensation. Chances are you’ve seen his work somewhere, and most likely don’t even know it. Porter’s latest mix focuses on flavor of the month, Jeremy Lin, and don’t worry, no fortune cookies were broken in [...]
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