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Watch games featuring your favorite team being broadcast on the opposition’s network (with NBA Season Pass) and see if they know what they’re talking about, when they discuss your team. Tonight I found the Clippers team to be really good.  I was surprised that they made a number of insightful comments about the Rockets that [...]

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Continuing my NBA VIEW New Jersey Nets: The funny thing about the Atlantic division is that the two teams that are in the best shape are the Celtics, the favorites for the championship and the Nets, who have yet to win a game this season.  [Note: I say that the Celtics are the favorites only [...]

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Introducing This is an NBA view.  Yes of course, I know you’re more accustomed to reading NBA previews, but this is how I roll.  See, I typically don’t get much of a chance to see summer league or preseason action, (especially this year, since the sublet I occupied through Oct. didn’t have cable,) so it [...]

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People are too concerned about the accuracy of their sports predictions.  Predicting what you feel most likely to occur is a perfectly reasonable thing to do if you’re a necessarily disinterested party, like a journalist, or have a stake in the outcome, like degenerate gamblers.  But otherwise, the only benefit of being right is say, [...]

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All the television commentators have been talking about Aaron Brooks’ penetration, the last few days. That’s the key, that’s the key…  They don’t mention the degree of difficulty of the shots he’s been making once he gets in the paint.  He can’t finish at the rim when his shot is well conested; he’s just too [...]

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