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Caught Between Laughing and Growling

January 12th, 2010 · No Comments · BASKETBALL COMMENTARY

Reading Chad Ford is loads of fun.  When he isn’t bubbling over with absurd suggestions, he’s getting other people to do it.  It’s too bad I read Ford’s post in TrueHoop yesterday after I wrote about NBA teams’ salary cap incontinence, because I could have just quoted from the article, in which Ford writes: A [...]

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DeJuan Blair’s Missing Innards

June 27th, 2009 · No Comments · BASKETBALL COMMENTARY

I missed this a few weeks back, from Chad Ford’s draft news: • We’ve been trying to get to the bottom of DeJuan Blair‘s situation for the past few weeks. We’ve heard from a number of teams that they’ve had concerns about his knees and it’s only come to light in recent days that those [...]

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Adam Keefe All-Stars

May 20th, 2009 · No Comments · BASKETBALL COMMENTARY

Chad Ford makes me chuckle. His first mock draft has Tyler Hansbrough going to the Utah Jazz: “It feels like destiny for Hansbrough to end up in Utah. His tough, blue-collar game should work really well for Jazz coach Jerry Sloan.” Indeed, Hansbrough will fit right in with other tough, blue collar Jazz players on [...]

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