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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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Cause it can’t have both
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Here’s what we know.  Leagues shouldn’t own teams.  Because when the interests are mixed between what’s right for one team, and what’s right for all, you get dumbfounding situations like Thursday, when an agreed upon trade which would have sent all world PG Chris Paul to the Lakers, gets vetoed, [...]

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Kobe Bryant won’t say anything publicly about Mike Brown’s somewhat controversial hiring; Brown on the other hand has been willing to talk to anyone who will listen as he tries to remodel the famed Lakers back into a title contender
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Mike Brown was on George Lopez Tonight to discuss being the new coach of the [...]

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One of the great big men in NBA history today hung up his enormous size 23 sneakers.  For better or worse he was as memorable as they come throughout his 19 year NBA odyssey

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He was larger than life.  Literally.  Shaquille Rashaun O’Neal  was the biggest, and still continues to be, the biggest person I [...]

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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
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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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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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Miami’s impressive win over the Lakers made a big-time statement. The Heat are not going anywhere and they’re only going to get better
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It was so convincing that it almost seemed like a fluke.  But make no mistake about it, Miami’s dismantling of the defending back to back world Champion Lakers on a much bally-hooed [...]

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And that’s why the Lakers head back to Tinseltown down 3 games to 2
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Kobe Bryant is a stone cold killer on a basketball court.  That much we know.  But like his Pre-Pau Gasol days, we also know that he can’t single handedly win games against the NBA’s elite without at least a little bit [...]

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