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Caught Between Laughing and Growling

January 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Basketball Commentary, NBA Business and Policies, Trades

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:

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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 [...]

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