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The basketball talking heads, myself included, pondered the names from which we assumed the Celtics would choose from for a new head coach to replace Doc Rivers. George Karl-check....Lionel Hollins-check

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Before any of you comment on this article and call me clinically insane, let me preface everything by saying that I have no dog in this fight - I don't have any particular rooting interests for a certain NBA team, and even if I did, it wouldn't be any of the potential suitors for Dwight Howard (Hawks, Warriors, Mavericks, Rockets and Lakers). I have openly admitted several times on-air that I was a bigger College Basketball fan than I was an NBA fan growing up, and that holds true to this day, but I have opened myself to watching more regular season games.

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The Los Angeles Lakers are trying desperately to re-sign Dwight Howard in the hopes that he will help the Lakers improve after a season that they were a seven seed and swept in the first round by the San Antonio Spurs

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I think the best landing spot for Dwight is in Houston, though you of the third-grade reading level and mind unriddled by dementia probably gathered that from the spoiler-ridden headline. You will not read any of the following phrases in this article: “no state taxes,” “building a brand,” “extra year at the max,” or, my favorite, “larger annual raises, ” as though the NBA were a government entity with an unsavory reputation for enacting pay freezes on their hapless employees

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It used to be just baseball flourished off season. Now led by the enormity that is the NFL, the off seasons in many ways are as intriguing as the seasons. The NBA begins it's circus when the clock strikes 12

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I must admit I mocked the Brooklyn Nets a few hours before the trading deadline, thinking their offer to the Boston Celtics was laughable. Well the joke is on me as the Celts took the package from the Nets, and now the Nets are championship contenders

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Otto Porter to the Washington Wizards at #3 was the only thing you could find on mock boards everywhere in terms of trying to predict the 2013 NBA Draft.  Everything else?  Crapshoot. Flat-out crapshoot.  

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How many times does the Phoenix Rise? How many lives do cats have? How many times will Larry Bird take over the reigns of the Indiana Pacers?

Bird is back with his home town team. Bird is from French Lick, Indiana

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There are certain things we're all rooting for on the evening of the NBA Draft. Bill Simmons has chronicled most of them at length already, so I won't waste too much of your time blathering on about how great the awkward hugs, ill-fitting suits, smug Stern grins, and Jay Bilas WINGSPAN freak-outs are year-in and year-out. If you just cl

The NBA Draft is all about potential.  Unlike the "win now" and next year theory of the NFL Draft, the NBA Draft is all about two years from now and beyond, unless of course you are getting LeBron James.  Who are some "lock" future stars in this league out of this year's draft?  I have five and here they are.

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With the recent documentary of Julius Erving, we are reminded yet again of how amazing a player and dunker he was.  Dr. J changed the game by playing so far above the rim that others followed him in later years with high-wire acts, and the NBA had a must-needed jolt of excitement with Dr

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LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony can both opt-out of their contracts next Summer.  James may do it because the Heat dynasty or mini-dynasty will likely be over, and Anthony may do it because his supporting cast isn't good enough in his mind

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