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SCOTT JACOBS
Chris Paul to the Lakers is officially dead courtesy of the almighty David Stern.  The deal which was agreed upon on Thursday, then vetoed by the league (which owns the Hornets) just hours later, for “basketball reasons” (cue the new popular phrase bandwagon) officially died a horrible, painful death yesterday after the Lakers pulled [...]

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SCOTT JACOBS
The NBA is back, but the problems that plagued the league and continue to plague the league are still very much alive. After agreeing to a trade that would have sent disgruntled all world PG Chris Paul to the Lakers, the Hornets thought they finally had their building blocks in [...]

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MEGAN BROWN
“Drivers, start your engines!”  NBA training camps and free agency starts starts tomorrow, and there is going to be a crazy race to sign players.
Teams have been given the green light to speak with players’ agents but no deals can be finalized until the collective bargaining agreement is officially ratified. There is a real [...]

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SHANE SMITH

When modern sporting games were at their inception, it was believed that games like baseball and basketball would instill a form of virtue lacking from the sporting culture emerging in early America. These games would teach children and men the virtues of life:  how to win and lose gracefully, how to work within a [...]

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Now that the NBA lockout is over its time to remember the players we have been dying to see play at the next level.
SHANE SMITH
With the completion of the NBA lockout it is FINALLY time for professional basketball again. Everyone will be excited to see an intensified version of free agency, ala: the NFL lockout, [...]

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SCOTT JACOBS
As of this very moment, there is labor peace at last in the National Basketball Association.  The NBA and NBAPA managed to salvage their season with productive Black Friday talks, and today held a press conference to announce what NBA fans have been waiting for way too long — that a tentative agreement has [...]

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CHRIS KNEPLEY
The NBA lockout has now resulted in the cancellation of professional basketball games until at least December 15th and with the players now filing antitrust lawsuits against the owners, it seems that the NBA season is in real jeopardy of not taking place at all.
Of course, missing an entire season would not only be [...]

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Most of the world hates LeBron James, but the Chinese love a winner*. (Well, an almost-winner.)
MITCH BLATT
Juiced Sports recently conducted a poll and found that–not surprisingly–most Americans hate the Heat as do most international fans as well. (My own commentary on James is an example.) However, during my travels in China, wherein I have been [...]

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