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It must be the luck of the Irish
Wake up, Celtics fans who’ve been in a coma for a year, your team is going to the NBA Finals!
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“The buzzer couldn’t come any sooner,” said an elated Paul Pierce. “We finally made it.”
“We’re in the Finals!” he screamed, smiling like a 10 year old.
Go ahead Paul. Scream and holler all [...]
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What can a 1.7% chance do for you?
How about land you the top pick in the NBA Draft when you have no right in the world to get it
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You feeling lucky punk?
Yeah you Chicago. You just pulled off the heist of the post-season when you stole the number one pick in the NBA’s annual Rip-off-teams-palooza (aka: the NBA Draft lottery). [...]
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There’s no place like home, but would someone please win on the road?
Celtics, Lakers add to home team’s dominance. So here’s the question: is there any reason to think anything of this anymore?
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It was interesting before. A fascinating case study at the beginning about why that home court edge just would not fail. But now, it’s tiresome. Aggravating. Sort of boring in a tireless repetitive way. [...]
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The NBA Playoffs: Where Boring Happens
Every game in the second round has been won by the home team (Every one!) so where’s the drama in that?
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The NBA Playoffs are too long. We know that. I know that, you know that, and David Stern secretly knows that. But for the last couple years, ever since the NBA [...]
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On the day that Riley retires, another former Heat coach continues his rise in the coaching ranks
Stan Van Gundy and Pat Riley’s paths an interesting tale of the tape
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You’ve got to love sports. The way two pasts somehow interact, sort of like the movie Crash has the day Pat Riley retires, reverted to a side bar, because the Orlando Magic are the first team in the 2008 playoffs [...]
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Introducing the Chicago Cubs of the NBA: Your Phoenix Suns!
Down two games to none, the Phoenix Suns have one foot out the door, and into another disapointing off-season
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If you like the Suns, well who are we kidding?, you like subjecting yourself to torture. Okay, so the Seattle Sonics who came into the league the same time as Phoenix are on the verge of [...]
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Playoffs Preview: The NBA Postseason is here!
Celtics-Lakers is so 1980’s, so don’t be surprised if those teams fail to both make it to the Finals
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So Mitch is ranting about summer plans, and how he doesn’t want to watch the Lakers-Celtics series if it happens, and how basketball really isn’t his thing. And here I am, sitting in my room, [...]
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Really Long Rant About the NBA Playoffs With My Picks at the End
MITCHELL BLATT
So Scott Jacobs emails me, and he’s like, “Yo man, get yo playoff picks up.” And I’m like, “Are you fo real? Me making playoff picks? I don’t know shit about basketball–hell, I don’t know shit about sports in general–all my columns just revolve around me ranting incoherently about it, not [...]
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