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Crystal Balls be damned: Our 2009 NBA Finals Predictions

Magic or Lakers?  Juiced Sports’ finest take their crack at predicting the 2009 Finals (LeBron James not included)
SCOTT JACOBS
The Nike Puppets have gone to the witness protection program (pun intended) and Vitamin Water has replaced the Black Mamba and The King with Superman.  The Cavs called in sick, and so in place of the much [...]

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Welcome to THE SHOW Superman

LeBron James may be the King, but tonight Superman earned his cape
SCOTT JACOBS
They asked if Dwight Howard could stop joking around for just a few months, and finally get serious. They wondered if Stan Van Gundy, “the Master of Panic” was a good enough coach to take his team beyond the conference finals and into [...]

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Pardon Me, But The NBA Playoffs are Unpredictable

A dream meeting of LeBron and Kobe in the finals may be on the brink of collapse, but in the world of sports you have to expect the unpredictable.

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They’re shipping up to Boston for yet another game seven

All they do in Beantown: play game sevens.  Add a winner take all showdown between the Magic and Celtics at the new Garden on Sunday Night to the list
SCOTT JACOBS
The NBA: Where Amazing Happens.
Boston, MA: Where Game Sevens Happen.
With the Burins and now Celtics going to game sevens in their second round series’ respectively, Boston [...]

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Juiced Ramblings: Well, At Least Kobe Can’t Win Without Shaq, Right?

Scott and I are too lazy to post sometimes, so we started this thing where we talk on AIM about sports then transcribe the conversation. Issue one features a little too much talk about the NBA Finals then some insights by Scott into the crooked world of underwater basket weaving.
Scott: Hey Man.
Mitchell: I just [...]

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Celtics complete miraculous turnaround with title #17

J ROSE
Devastated.
Humiliated.
Annihilated.
Overrated.
All of these terms can be used to describe the incredible fraud that is the 2007-2008 Los Angeles Lakers.
After all, this is a club that was supposedly singing “kumbaya” coming into the postseason and fooled all the pundits, like my clueless colleague Colin, into thinking it was an unstoppable, united force by breezing [...]

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Hollywood Horrors

The Boston Celtics pull of the greatest NBA Finals comeback on the road in an absolute shocker and are now 1 win from an NBA Championship
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Paul Pierce was speechless for a minute as he tried to catch his breath.
The sports world was left speechless with him, as the Celtics completed a remarkable comeback, none [...]

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Is it Just Me, or Is 35 Free Throws a Lot for One Team?

NBA sabotages their own Finals, Indians draft an ex-con, and Tony Kornheiser is on one boy’s enemies list.
MITCHELL BLATT
“This is what America wants,” Magic Johnson said about the Celtics-Lakers finals matchup. If not America, the NBA anyway. Presumptively, they want the high ratings that two huge markets would provide.
Note to the [...]

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