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World Records Broken in the 2015 Swimming World Championships
A world record was broken 12 times in the 2015 Swimming world championships in Kazan, often by the same person in the same event day after day. Those who stood out were Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden in butterfly events, Adam Peaty of the United Kingdom in the breaststroke and above all of them was Katie Ledecky of the United States with an incredibly dominant week, taking no less than five gold medals.
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Longest Active NFL Playoff Droughts
Heading into the 2015 NFL season, there are eight teams without any postseason action in over half a decade: Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Miami Dolphins, Jacksonville Jaguars, Oakland Raiders, St. Louis Rams and the Tennessee Titans. Five of them have been out of the picture for a decade or more.
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Longest Active Tenures of One-Club NBA Players
Being a one-team kind of guy isn’t easy in today’s NBA, but there are nine players with at least 11 years of experience on just one franchise. The small group includes players like Anderson Varejao and Udonis Haslem; players who play their part. But there are also the legends, still walking the earth, like Tim Duncan, Dirk Nowitzki and Kobe Bryant.
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NBA Rumors – LaMarcus Aldridge on Not Hating Damian Lillard, Leaving the Portland Trail Blazers, Weird New York Knicks & Los Angeles Lakers Second Chance
The biggest free agent this offseason was LaMarcus Aldridge, who left the Portland Trail Blazers (not because of Damian Lillard), chose to sign with the San Antonio Spurs while leaving teams like the Los Angeles Lakers disappointed and not even meeting with the New York Knicks.
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Winners of the 2015 NBA Player Awards
The NBA players are tired of having just the media and fans making award decisions for them. In the first annual NBPA awards, it was James Harden who was voted as the MVP for the 2014-2015 season, while Stephen Curry won the ‘Most Difficult to Guard’ and ‘Most Clutch Player’ awards.
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Oklahoma City Thunder – Don’t Forget About Them
Everyone is talking about the San Antonio Spurs as the new favorites to win the NBA championship. The Golden State Warriors are the defending and looking very strong champions. The Cleveland Cavaliers are re-loading and if healthy might actually be the best team in the NBA. And how can one forget about the Los Angeles Clippers, vastly improving this free agency? Somehow, everyone has forgotten about the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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Team USA – 41 Players Competing For a Place in the 2016 Olympics
It’s that time of year again for Team USA to assemble and start narrowing down the expanded roster (currently consisting 41 players) towards the 12 necessary for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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13 Recent NBA Draft Busts & the Players Teams Missed Out On
It’s hard to define what is a draft bust exactly, but guys like Hasheem Thabeet and Ekpe Udoh are easy to identify. It doesn’t help when just after these disastrous picks come in guys who end up being All-Stars or even more. For the worst hit and misses general managers have made in the NBA draft over the last few years, keep reading
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Best NBA Draft Classes of All-Time
No one is going to say that the 2015 NBA Draft class is the greatest of all-time. But who knows, maybe in a decade or two, some will be comparing it to the great ones of 2003 (LeBron James, Dwyane Wade), 1996 (Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Allen Iverson) or even the mythical one of 1984 (Michael Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon, John Stockton, Charles Barkley)?
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3 Players That Might Enter the NBA’s Top 10 All-Time Scoring List Next Season
At the moment, the list of the NBA’s top 10 all-time leading scorers consists of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, Shaquille O’Neal, Dirk Nowitzki, Moses Malone, Elvin Hayes and Hakeem Olajuwon. By the end of next season, Paul Pierce, Tim Duncan and LeBron James could be part of this elite group.