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Oklahoma City’s new NBA franchise has no identity. No nickname. No nothing.
SCOTT JACOBS
It reads like a mad lib when you consider how strange a city without a nickname sounds.
The Oklahoma City ______s lost today___ - ___ to the ____________ in a _______ game. _________ scored _____ points as the __________ improved […]

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Elton Brand is off to the city of Brotherly Love while the Clippers try to pick up the pieces… Again!
SCOTT JACOBS 
Remember when I wrote a few weeks ago that, “No one wants to be a Clipper. Not really good players.” Well, yesterday confirmed it.  Welcome back to the show LA.  The Nightmare before, after, and […]

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Seattle’s first sports team is leaving the Emerald City for greener grass on the other side. Perspective from the two cities involved, fans, and major sports columnists
SCOTT JACOBS
Yesterday I wrote bitterly that Seattle was losing their team, erasing 41 years of memories and success. Today, I offer an unbiased look at what people […]

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Seattle’s oldest franchise, the Supersonice are packing up their things and bolting for Oklahoma City in a dark day in Seattle sports history
SCOTT JACOBS
It’s over.
What else can you say about the Sonics 41 year run in Seattle.
O sure. They’ve still got their colors, and their logo, and the unique team name. But last […]

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Typical ESPN pandering to New York and not knowing anything. All in one clip!
MITCHELL BLATT
This morning on SportsCenter, the crew analyzed the first two picks, then for some strange reason, they jumped to #6 and analyzed the Knicks pick.
Okay, so they had a good reason to talk Knicks. As Stu Scott said, “Since […]

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MITCHELL BLATT
Shaq’s done it before, and he did it again. Throwing down a rap against another player. His keystone lyrics were, “Kobe couldn’t do without me,” and “Kobe, tell me how my ass tastes,” which he got the crowd to chant at the end of his performance.
He also had some fun lines […]

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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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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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