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NBA Rumors – Cleveland Cavaliers, Atlanta Hawks Best in the East Once Again

There’s no argument about the Cleveland Cavaliers being the best team in the Eastern Conference, with LeBron James being in decline or not. But who seems like the favorite to be their runner up in the regular season, and probably the playoffs as well? The Atlanta Hawks seem like a very good candidate.
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NBA Games Scores & Standings

Tuesday was about the Cleveland Cavaliers getting a big night from LeBron James in a win over the Denver Nuggets, Carmelo Anthony stopping the losing for the New York Knicks, Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook winning the shootout with the Milwaukee Bucks, Marc Gasol coming up big for the Memphis Grizzlies in overtime and the Atlanta Hawks putting on an offensive show in Houston.
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NBA Rumors – Golden State Warriors, Stephen Curry Only Need a Few Minutes

One of the most frustrating things about the Golden State Warriors and Stephen Curry is how only two or three minutes of good basketball from them turns an entire games around and finishes it. Frustrating to their opponents that is.
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Jeremy Lin Quiet, Kemba Walker Sizzles, Charlotte Hornets Ruin Kobe Bryant Tour

The Kobe Bryant circus, aka the Los Angeles Lakers, came to lose against the Charlotte Hornets, who had Kemba Walker playing some of his finest basketball this season, while Jeremy Lin had a nice, quiet game that neither here nor there.
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NBA Rumors: Cleveland Cavaliers, LeBron James Over Their Mini-Crisis

For teams like the Cleveland Cavaliers, consecutive losses always mean some sort of crisis atmosphere, at least coming from the media. Their 101-97 win over the Phoenix Suns, a team with very different kinds of problems, helps pull them out of some troubled waters.
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NBA Rumors – Los Angeles Lakers, Philadelphia 76ers Don’t Know How to Rebuild

The two worst teams in the NBA this season and by quite a distance from any other underperforming team are the Philadelphia 76ers and the Los Angeles Lakers. Both have been terrible for quite some time, but they’re approaching their rebuilding/tanking purposes in different ways.
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NBA Rumors – Phoenix Suns, Jeff Hornacek Won’t Last the Crisis

It’s hard to call what’s happening to the Phoenix Suns anything but a complete collapse. Eric Bledsoe now being out for possibly the entire season is more bad news that makes Jeff Hornacek feel even more pressure, knowing that the day of him losing his job isn’t too far away.
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NBA Rumors – Chicago Bulls Expecting These Derrick Rose & Nikola Mirotic

The funny or maybe sad thing about the Chicago Bulls and their dependance on Derrick Rose is that it possibly was easier waiting for him to come back from injury than the wait for him to become a consistent, dominant point guard again, with the realization that it’s never going to happen still not completely sinking in.
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Jeremy Lin & Kemba Walker Heat Up for Charlotte Hornets at the Right Time

The Charlotte Hornets beat the Memphis Grizzlies 98-92 to stop the losing streak as Kemba Walker get hot early and late and Jeremy Lin saves his best for last in a lukewarm offensive game for him overall.
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NBA Rumors – Cleveland Cavaliers Don’t Handle Christmas Disappointment Too Well

The Cleveland Cavaliers didn’t get a lot of time to bounce back from their loss to the Golden State Warriors on Christmas, so they completely fell apart a day later in Portland with a 29-point defeat against the Portland Trail Blazers, with two more games left to play on their Western tour.