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2011 NBA Playoffs Notebook: Miami Heat
There is a slippery slope atop the sports world where something as simple as one shot can catapult a player or team from falling off the cliff with the rest of the competition to ...
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2011 NBA Playoffs Notebook: Los Angeles Lakers
It starts with the city they represent. Beautiful Hollywood is a community unlike any other in the U.S. It is common to see a famous celebrity at Starbucks or a street-side cafe, more than likely an actor or actress...
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2011 NBA Playoffs Notebook: Miami Heat, Boston Celtics
With the impressive act of two technical fouls in less than a minute, Boston Celtics forward Paul Pierce put into sight what was already becoming an overwhelming thought: Miami is ...
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2011 NBA Playoffs Notebook: Dirk Nowitzki, Dwight Howard and Kobe Bryant
He’s a legitimate 7-footer who can dribble the ball rather easily and effectively for someone his size. His shot is more lethal than most shooting guards in the league. He’s a former MVP and thee-point shootout champion...
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2011 NBA Playoffs Notebook: Atl, Grizz, LA, Spurs, N.O., Magic, OKC, Nuggets
Dallas defeated Portland last night, 93-82, in the first Game 5 of this year’s NBA Playoffs. The outcome of this game should not surprise anyone as this series was the most likely of all the first-round matchups to last the full seven games...
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2011 NBA Playoffs Notebook: New York Knicks and Boston Celtics
New York Knicks reserve shooting guard Bill Walker shot an astounding 0-11 (0-5, three-point), eliciting memories of one John Starks — who is a former teammate of current ...
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2011 NBA Playoffs Notebook: Bulls, Heat, Pacers, 76ers
The Miami Heat have handled the Philadelphia 76ers rather easily through the first two games of the series...
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2011 NBA Playoffs: The Second Season Arrives Just in Time
For most NBA teams, the regular season comes to an agonizingly late and expectedly uneventful conclusion tonight...
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Three Point Play: Miami Heat, the Masters, Los Angeles Lakers
SHOOTS In the current technology-driven world of instant results, satisfying or otherwise, finished products in sports—especially the NBA—are labeled as such at record pace...
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NCAA Basketball Tournament Rewards Another Worthy Champion: UConn Huskies
That sure was an exciting tournament the NCAA showcases for their basketball teams each season. Sixty-something teams competing against each other on the court, each game eliminating ...
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NBA MVP: Miami's LeBron James or Chicago's Derrick Rose? Does It Matter?
The NBA MVP award will be given to either LeBron James or Derrick Rose . While Dwight Howard , Kevin Durant, and, yes, Dwyane Wade each have legitimate claims of their ...
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Futbol or Football? Chad Ochocinco Can Be Ambassador to the Beautiful Game
Chad Ochocinco has been awarded a reserve spot, or “honorary” membership, on MLS squad Sporting Kansas City...
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NCAA Tournament: College Basketball Is Not Perfect...Until Now
As the NCAA tournament is set to tip off the Sweet 16 tonight, thousands of hoops stars around the country, and the world, will be shooting, passing, jumping, bumping, guarding ...
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Three Point Play: Bynum Effect, Derrick Rose, NFL Rule Change
SHOOTS The Butterfly Effect is a theory that suggests that something as simple and pleasant as a butterfly flapping its wings can cause, in due time, something as large scale or chaotic as, too be sensitive, a snowstorm halfway across the globe...
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Miami Heat's Season Right on Track, Even If Not as Planned
After the first 17 games, roughly 20 percent of the season, the Miami Heat sported a mediocre and disappointing 9-8 record. The following 22 games, however, saw Miami bulldoze through the league with a 21-1 mark...
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NBA: 2011 Eastern and Western Conference Playoff Predictions
Miami Heat president Pat Riley has orchestrated many a blockbuster deal in his day, including the largest trade in league history in 2005 involving five teams and 13 players ...
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Miami Heat: Three Concerns from Last Night's Loss To the Chicago Bulls
The Miami Heat continue to disappoint against the beasts of the East, namely the Chicago Bulls and Boston Celtics , against whom the Big Treat are now a combined 0-5...
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Chauncey Billups, Raymond Felton and Chris Paul Provide Real NBA Fantasy
"Perception is reality" is a fantasy. If a tree falls in the woods and no one knows about it, it still falls...
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NBA Superstars Will Go Where They Want. Are There Any Teams Left In The League?
Carmelo Anthony has officially flexed his star power muscle, effectively forcing the Denver Nuggets to trade away its face of the franchise to the New York Knicks for a package of players, picks and cashola...
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NBA All-Star Break: State of the League (Part 2 of 2)
In part 1, we agreed that a 53-game season is plenty of time to state your case as an NBA team. After this regular season is complete, fans are treated to a weekend of slams, jams, and thank you ma’ams, also known as All-Star Weekend...
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NBA All-Star Break: State Of The League Part 1 Of 2
The NBA is currently at the two-thirds point of the season, a time when those who matter gather for a weekend of parties and skills contests...
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NBA: Top 7 Reasons We May Not Have Heat-Lakers 2011 Finals
Congratulations to Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers for their Super Bowl triumph over Pittsburgh on Sunday...
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Super Bowl XLV "Pre-Review": Pittsburgh Steelers Vs. Green Bay Packers
1st Quarter Green Bay kicks the ball into the end zone for a touchback, meaning Pittsburgh will start at the 20 yard line...
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NBA: Let's Make a Deal: Suns, Cavs, Hawks, Blazers, Knicks, and Nuggets
Today could not have started any better. After waking at 5 a.m. up with a rejuvenated zest for all things morning, I headed off to the gym to run five miles and swim another ...
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AFC Championship Game "Pre-Review": Pittsburgh Steelers Vs. New York Jets
Pre-review? What is that, anyway? Thanks for asking. For a better understanding of what a pre-review is, please refer here http://bleacherreport...