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Amar’e Stoudemire signing with the Knicks

July 5, 2010

Amar’e Stoudemire has agreed in principle to sign a max deal with the New York Knicks that would net him nearly $100 million over the next five years.

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Is an upset brewing? The Magic and Suns make it interesting.

May 26, 2010

Oh hello NBA Playoffs…how I’ve missed your warm embrace. In what has been one of the least competitive NBA Playoffs in recent memory, the tides seem to be turning. Just a handful of days ago, we were all ready to see the Celtics (3-0) and Lakers (2-0) wrap up their series. But with their backs against the wall, both the Magic and Suns have responded in a big way.

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LeBron talk leads to fines for Cuban and Kerr

May 22, 2010

The NBA slapped Cuban with a whopping $100,000 fine for his comments regarding LeBron James. Steve Kerr was also fined $10,000 a week ago for comments he made on a radio show where he joked about the Suns acquiring James for the mid-level exception.

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Western Conference Finals: Lakers vs. Suns

May 16, 2010

The Los Angeles Lakers vs. Phoenix Suns matchup in the Western Conference Finals has the makings of a highly entertaining series, given the starpower and storylines involved.

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Round 2 Scoring Summary – A Visual Representation.

May 16, 2010

Graphic designer Dan Sweet helped put the second round of the NBA Playoffs into perspective with this great chart of game-by-game scoring outputs for each team in each series.

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Fantasy Focus: Beno Udrih edition

February 28, 2010

Looking for a spark for your fantasy team? Here are a few players making some unexpected noise:
Beno Udrih – You never know what Paul Westphal is going to do with his lineups. You could be in the starting lineup one day and out of it the next: as is the case with Donte Greene. However, [...]

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Saturday’s Soundbites: 1/30

January 30, 2010

Amar’e Stoudemire is one of the names most frequently thrown around in trade rumors and speculation these days, and it might be getting under his skin a bit. Here’s what Stoudemire had to say about how the recent trade chatter has affected him (Arizona Republic):
“I feel like the confidence in me is not quite there [...]

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NBA releases All-Star ballot update

December 31, 2009

The NBA released its latest All-Star votes status update today, which should continue to fuel the debate on whether fans should have a full say on who the All-Star starters are. All had seemed right in the last All-Star update, as Steve Nash was paired alongside Kobe Bryant as the top vote-getters for Western Conference [...]

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Teams get a boost from surprise contributors

December 11, 2009

Sometimes the marked improvement of a player is less of a reflection of a player’s increased skill level, and more dependent on the capitalization on opportunities. This is not to say that a player’s solid performance isn’t largely in part to the hours they’ve put in at the gym, but in the NBA, everybody who [...]

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