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MITCHELL BLATT
The most interesting thing about the NBA playoffs has been the WNBA commericals with WNBA players trashing their own sport. Having not gotten results from the commercials that attempt to promote the sport, they must have thought that shocking the NBA viewers would build interest. (Or maybe they just couldn’t find any […]

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Stephen A. picks up a pen blackberry again and is back to work writing.
MITCHELL BLATT
Stephen A. Smith knows what it’s like to be a poor black man in a country and basketball association run by rich white people!

David Stern is white. Dirk Nowitzki is white. NBA VP Stu Jackson is black.
There […]

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The NBA playoffs are on TV, and that means that stupid analysts and commentators are also on TV.
MITCHELL BLATT
Maybe it was before Game 3 of the Cavs-Celtics series when the two analysts completely contradicted each other as to who felt the pressure, maybe it was at the end of the first half that game when […]

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Carmello says the Nuggets as a team quit. George Karl responds that Melo might have, but, oh, I never could have quit.
MITCHELL BLATT
Ever since Carmello Anthony made it to the NBA, he has been… well, sort of disappointing. On the court, anyway. He’s got the tallent, but it doesn’t look like […]

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Lakers dominate defense-deprived Nuggets en route to impressive game one victory
SCOTT JACOBS
Kobe Bryant was in foul trouble and had four points at the half. A year ago the Lakers would have been doomed to a blowout loss, because they had no one to pick up the slack. But o how things have changed in Tinseltown. […]

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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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Best rivalry in basketball right now should lead to another outstanding (hopefully fair) first round series.
SCOTT JACOBS
I’m a Suns fan, so I was going to watch no matter what. I’m a basketball fan, so when the NBA’s marquee rivalry is played in the first round it’s like Heat-Knicks all over again. I’m a sports […]

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Darby Conley made fun of the Knicks in his nationally syndicated comic “Get Fuzzy.”
Darby Conley, creator of the comic “Get Fuzzy,” which usually features Bucky Katt demeaning Satchel Pooch, but in more intellectual forms than the Garfield vs. Oddie rivalry, has now joined the symphony of Knicks bashing. How bad does it get when […]

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