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			<title>Heat back home, chance to finish Bulls off (Yahoo! Sports)</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/heat-back-home-chance-to-finish-bulls-off-yahoo-sports</link>
			<description><![CDATA[MIAMI (AP) -- Dwyane Wade is limping around in obvious pain. LeBron James&#039; shooting percentage is down. Shane Battier and Ray Allen have struggled to get anything going from 3-point range.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:00:03 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Taj Gibson Goes On F-Bomb Tirade After Game 2 Ejection</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/taj-gibson-goes-on-fbomb-tirade-after-game-2-ejection</link>
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Game 2 between the Heat and Bulls was a real snoozer until early in the fourth quarter when referee Scott Foster and the Bulls decided no one wanted to hang around to see the rest of the game play out.
The Heat won 115-78 but not before Joakim Noah was ejected from the bench and Taj Gibson was given the boot while Ray Allen shot the free throw from the Noah technical. Noah was given his second technical for arguing a blown goaltending call with Foster from the bench. Gibson was hot because Foster blew the call on his shot (also, the Bulls were getting their shit handed to them). 
After the ejection, Gibson directed a series of f-bombs at Foster—that Steve Kerr was amazingly on board with—and had to be restrained by the Chicago bench. 
Game 3 is Friday in Chicago. Taj Gibson may be available, but will certainly be lighter in the wallet.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 22:00:04 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Heat dismantle Bulls to pull even in series</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ray Allen scored 21 points, LeBron James had 19 and the Miami Heat embarrassed the Chicago Bulls with a 115-78 victory in Game 2 of the teams&#039; Eastern Conference semifinal series on Wednesday night.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 22:00:04 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>A romp for the Heat, who top Bulls 115-78 (Yahoo! Sports)</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/a-romp-for-the-heat-who-top-bulls-11578-yahoo-sports</link>
			<description><![CDATA[MIAMI (AP) -- Ray Allen scored 21 points, LeBron James had 19 and the Miami Heat embarrassed the Chicago Bulls with a 115-78 victory in Game 2 of the teams&#039; Eastern Conference semifinal series on Wednesday night.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 22:00:04 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Suns hire McDonough as next GM (Yahoo! Sports)</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/suns-hire-mcdonough-as-next-gm-yahoo-sports</link>
			<description><![CDATA[PHOENIX (AP) -- The Phoenix Suns have hired Boston Celtics executive Ryan McDonough as their next general manager.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 15:00:05 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Why A Boston Globe Writer Didn&#039;t Vote LeBron James For MVP</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/why-a-boston-globe-writer-didnt-vote-lebron-james-for-mvp</link>
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Mystery solved. The lone writer who listed Carmelo Anthony first, denying LeBron James the first-ever unanimous MVP, was Gary Washburn of the Boston Globe. And he sounds almost...apologetic?
Washburn&#039;s reasoning is exactly what you expected. He puts it succinctly, &quot;I thought Anthony was the most valuable player to his team this season, not the best player in the league.&quot;
This is going to happen as long as sports leagues call the award the &quot;most valuable player,&quot; instead of &quot;most outstanding player&quot;—semantically, it&#039;s easier to make a case for multiple candidates than when it&#039;s just about who&#039;s the best.
Washburn explains using the old &quot;take player X off his team and see what happens&quot; thought experiment:

If you were to take Anthony off the Knicks, they are a lottery team. James plays with two other All-Stars, the league’s all-time 3-point leader, a defensive stalwart, and a fearless point guard. The Heat are loaded.
If LeBron was taken away from the Heat, they still would be a fifth or sixth seed. He is the best player of this generation, a multifaceted superstar with the physical prowess of Adonis, but I chose to reward a player who has lifted his team to new heights.

This is entirely valid reasoning, but also takes you dangerous places. The Celtics never looked quite as dangerous after Rajon Rondo went down—is Rondo the MVP? Russell Westbrook? Danilo Gallinari? I prefer the more telling thought experiment of replacing an MVP candidate with another superstar. Give the Knicks Kevin Durant instead of Carmelo Anthony, and they&#039;re instantly a better team. But take LeBron off the Heat, and everything changes. The offense runs entirely through him, even when he&#039;s off the ball. The defensive sets are based around who he&#039;s matched up on. Without LeBron, the Heat might survive—but they wouldn&#039;t even be recognizable as the same team.
But Washburn&#039;s made his case for Carmelo, and it&#039;s not an unsupportable one. We only wish he didn&#039;t sound so defensive about being the lone holdout.

When I submitted my vote in mid-April, I had no idea I would be the only voter to leave LeBron out of first...


The perception that I knew the other 120 voters cast their first-place votes for LeBron and that I went against the grain as some kind of statement is inaccurate...


I definitely understand those who believe LeBron should have won unanimously...

 NBA MVP voting has long been unhealthily meta, with writers loathe to vote for certain guys repeatedly, and dwelling on past snubs. It&#039;s insane that Steve Nash has more trophies than Shaquille O&#039;Neal. It&#039;s ludicrous that Michael Jordan only has five. (Washburn even cites two MJ screwjobs in his column, as if the fact that writers had Jordan fatigue in the past absolves him from checking LeBron&#039;s name yet again.) But maybe the nutty history of MVP voting makes Washburn&#039;s dissent a good thing. With the obsession with voting totals, a sweep for LeBron would have set off controversy—how can he be the first unanimous pick without having the greatest single season in NBA history? Trust me, that debate would have been more insufferable than this one.
We&#039;re falling into the same overthinking trap. If you want to be cynical about this, there&#039;s one giant reason Washburn would have voted for Carmelo Anthony: so you&#039;d click on his column explaining it.
Why my MVP vote this year was Carmelo Anthony [Boston Globe]]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 09:00:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Celtics have another offseason of decisions ahead (Yahoo! Sports)</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/celtics-have-another-offseason-of-decisions-ahead-yahoo-sports</link>
			<description><![CDATA[BOSTON (AP) -- This offseason will be a lot like the last one for the Boston Celtics.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 13:30:01 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Knicks hold off Celtics, end playoff drought</title>
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David Butler II/USA TODAY SportsCarmelo Anthony led the Knicks to their first playoff series win since 2000.For the first time in 13 years the New York Knicks have won a playoff series, defeating the Boston Celtics 88-80 in Game 6. The last time the Knicks won a playoff series was in the 2000 Conference Semifinals against the Miami Heat, the same year that Carmelo Anthony was a sophomore in high school.How improbable was this win for the Knicks?]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 23:30:01 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Knicks hold on to beat Celtics 88-80 and advance (Yahoo! Sports)</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/knicks-hold-on-to-beat-celtics-8880-and-advance-yahoo-sports</link>
			<description><![CDATA[BOSTON (AP) -- Carmelo Anthony scored 21 points and the New York Knicks held on after blowing most of a 26-point lead to beat the Boston Celtics 88-80 in Game 6 on Friday night and advance in the postseason for the first time since 2000.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 23:00:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Knicks stave off furious rally, oust Celtics</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/knicks-stave-off-furious-rally-oust-celtics</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Carmelo Anthony scored 21 points and the New York Knicks held on after blowing most of a 26-point lead to beat the Boston Celtics 88-80 in Game 6 on Friday night and advance in the postseason for the first time since 2000.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 22:30:02 EDT</pubDate>
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