Free Ballin’

Among the Trailblazers, Rockets, and Thunder, two will make the playoffs.  San Antonio will knock one of them off.  Fortunately, I think it’s the Trailblazers who are most likely lotto bound.  They’ve had a cupcake schedule and without Oden they’re a bubble team.  The Rockets and Thunder have faced some real competition thus far, and [...]

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It doesn’t have to be a great game to get my attention.  The other night’s Trailblazers/Heat matchup was competitive, but nothing special.  Watching Greg Oden and Michael Beasley go at each other, on the other hand, was sensational. Amid a bevy if impressive sequences, the most significant play of the game to me (in a [...]

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