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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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NBA VIEW: Eastern Conference, Central Division

November 16th, 2009 · No Comments · BASKETBALL COMMENTARY

Indiana: The Pacers chased me all over America last year.  It seemed that everywhere I went, they were the visiting team.  So I got to see them a lot.  Mostly, I learned that if you only looked at Danny Granger for all 48 minutes of game play, even especially when he’s on the bench, the [...]

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Is AI the Answer in Motown?

November 4th, 2008 · No Comments · BASKETBALL COMMENTARY

Well, I guess now we’ll see how good Rodney Stuckey is. I like trades like this, big pieces being shifted around by two teams, Detroit and Denver, that needed a change. Or maybe not. Denver desperately needed a change, and this trade is terrific for them in every way I can think of, except…well, Allen [...]

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