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I just read an annoying article by Bob Young.  Discussing the pros and cons of moving Amare Stoudemire, Young confidently states of the power-forward’s health prospects:  “A surgically repaired knee may work fine right now, but it’s still a surgically repaired knee. It’s never quite the same.”  It always irks me when basketball writers ominously [...]

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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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Bill Simmons posted a great email exchange he had with Malcolm Gladwell, in which they discuss the NBA’s deeply flawed (league-damaging) draft.  Both make good (though imperfect) suggestions for how to improve it—I’ll write about how to fix NBA draft, in the near future—but at one point, Simmons, noting how the draft could be used [...]

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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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