Nix the NBA All-Stars, send the NBA champs
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Even if the United States men&#39;s Olympic basketball team takes a gold medal home from Athens, the future of this program needs a major re-evaluation.
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Rajon Rondo might not play. The offense is sluggish. The defense is passable, but getting lazy. What a perfect time to be seeing the hottest team in the NBA!
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There&#39;s going to be a ring ceremony in an NBA city tonight, and by now you probably know it&#39;s not going to be in Los Angeles.
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The NBA&#39;s prevailing merger with anarchy is defined by the cheesy history of its participants. They include seizing a sense of entitlement without portfolio, leaving school early, a noticeable disinterest
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Not everything that ails the NBA is solved by the rest-of-the-season suspension of the Indiana Pacers&#39; Ron Artest. It would be irresponsible to suggest anybody should have foreseen a brawl coming.
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Knicks fans are not into witnessing superior visitors like LeBron James. These folks want heads to roll, most specifically that of Isiah Thomas.
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The Sporting News - Every February, the air grows thick with trade rumors. Usually, nothing comes of them, and thousands of anxious NBA fans are forced to confront broken hopes and dreams. Oh, and all the time they've wasted poring over possibilities.
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The National Basketball Association suspended Ron Artest, Stephen Jackson and Jermaine O&#39;Neal of the Indiana Pacers and Ben Wallace of the Detroit Pistons indefinitely pending completion
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When the NBA began sending its players to the Olympics in 1992, one of the league&#39;s goals was to spread basketball around the globe. Clearly, the idea worked.
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There is a chance for fireworks during the NBA&#39;s doubleheader today, but the anticipation of overly physical play in sports often leads to the opposite result.
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Fed-up fans at the Air Canada Centre yesterday treated Vince Carter as if the trade was already a done deal. SUPERSONICS 101 RAPTORS 94.
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Ron Artest, like so many poor souls in sports, is misunderstood. His coach doesn't understand him. His teammates don't understand him. Fans don't understand him. Half the time he doesn't understand himself.
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The NBA is considering a plan to abolish the three-point shot until the end of games to increase shooting percentages and make the sport more aesthetically pleasing.
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The NBA finals continue to draw far fewer viewers than last year.
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The part about peace on earth, good will toward men. . . . It won&#39;t really apply at today&#39;s two NBA games. Good tidings will not be what Shaquille O&#39;Neal brings when he faces Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles
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So you say you want a winning NBA franchise eh? And what&#39;s that? You say you have been cursed with one of the losingest franchises of all time?
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The NBA issued indefinite suspensions yesterday for Indiana Pacers Ron Artest, Stephen Jackson, and Jermaine O&#39;Neal, as well as Detroit Pistons center Ben