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Oklahoma City Thunder – Changes Needed to Beat the Miami Heat
If you’d have to pick, right now, two NBA teams that are going to reach the 2013 NBA Finals, it would probably be the Oklahoma City Thunder from the West and the Miami Heat from the East. While the Thunder should run into a bit more opposition from the Lakers than they did last year but at the moment, most signs point to a repeat of the recent finals series.
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Kobe Bryant, A Dallas Mavericks Player?
It’s always fun playing fantasy games in your head about how would a team’s fortune change if they got that draft pick or made that trade. According to Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks nearly got Kobe Bryant from the Los Angeles Lakers back in 2007.
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15 NBA Head Coaches During Their Playing Days
Does being a good NBA player make someone a good NBA head coach? About half of the league’s coaches didn’t play in the NBA, including the most recent NBA champion, Erik Spoelstra. His finals opponent, Scott Brooks, did play, actually winning the NBA title as a player, just like Avery Johnson, Byron Scott, Rick Carlisle, Lionel Hollins and Kevin McHale.
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LeBron James – Road To The 1st Ring
A week after winning Olympic gold, LeBron James finally has some time to rest, and it gives a bit of an opportunity to look back at his road to his first NBA title, which began as the most coveted high school basketball talents, since, well, forever, onto his years with the Cavaliers and the painful (for Cavs fans) departure to the Miami Heat, and the two NBA finals with one sad and eventually, a happy ending.
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Lakers vs Thunder – Who are the Best in the Western Conference?
The question is pretty simple – Have the two major additions made by the Los Angeles Lakers, adding Steve Nash and Dwight Howard to the team be enough to regain dominance in the West, overtaking the young and talented Oklahoma City Thunder led by Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook?
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LeBron James – Joining the Michael Jordan & Scottie Pippen Elite Club
With his second gold medal, LeBron James became one of fifteen NBA players to win the Olympic basketball tournament twice. More impressively, he joined a special and elite club that now only he, Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen are members in, of players who have the NBA title and the Olympic title in the same summer.
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FIBA Trying to Make 3-on-3 Basketball an Olympic Sport
One Basketball tournament in the Olympics isn’t enough, or no longer is. According to FIBA’s secretary general, they’re looking into adding a 3 on 3 tournament to the 2016 Olympic games in Rio, with FIBA trying to create a ranking system that determines the best 3 on 3 teams in the world.
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Derrick Rose, in the Injury Footsteps of Michael Jordan
When Derrick Rose comes back from his ACL injury, which now looks no sooner than March 2013, the Chicago Bulls would love him to be as good as Michael Jordan was when he came back from his injury during the 1985-1986, helping the team eventually reach the playoffs, leading to his ‘god-like’ 63 point game.
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Kevin Durant Carries Dream Team to the Gold Medal (USA vs Spain)
For the second straight time, Spain made it very hard for the American team to touch that gold medal. Once again, the Americans had too much talent to overcome all of their problems throughout the game in the crucial fourth quarter moments, this time ’round being LeBron James and mostly Kevin Durant, scoring 30 points en route to his first Olympic gold medal.
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Los Angeles Lakers – With or Without Dwight Howard, Way over the Salary Cap
Financially, just looking at the numbers of the salary cap and the near future, bringing over Dwight Howard from the Orlando Magic isn’t exactly a fantastic deal. He’ll be costing the Los Angeles Lakers $19.5 million next season, which of course translates into much more when it comes to taxes, and we haven’t even begun talking about further into the future.