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LeBron James is The Real MVP, But One Player Can’t Win a Championship
The NBA Finals MVP has to come from the champion. It’s obvious. But that doesn’t mean Andre Iguodala was the best player in the series. LeBron James was. He simply played with a bad set of cards dealt to him, and couldn’t do the impossible with it. The Cleveland Cavaliers as a team simply weren’t good enough.
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Top 10 NBA Finals Game Winners & Buzzer Beaters
With the 2015 NBA Finals set to start, it’s a good time to remember the most memorable shots in Finals history, including Michael Jordan and two other Chicago Bulls players winning championships at the last second, Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with clutch hook shots and Garfield Heard with “the shot heard ’round the world”.
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Most Recent Sports Illustrated Cover for Each NBA Team
If appearing on the cover of Sports Illustrated is some indication of national relevance, than it’s easy to understand why the Cleveland Cavaliers & Golden State Warriors are the most recent NBA teams to appear there, and also why it’s been a very long time since some other NBA teams have been featured on the cover.
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Top 10 Highest Paid NFL Coaches in 2015
With all the money rolling around in the NFL, coaches are bound to pick up some of it. The top 10 highest paid of them in the league are all making $6 million a season or more. Five of them (Pete Carroll, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, John Harbaugh and Tom Coughlin) have won a Super Bowl.
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Top 10 Highest Paid Baseball Players in 2015
Among the group of the top 10 best paid players in baseball, we have three teams sending more than one player. The Philadelphia Phillies with two (Cliff Lee, Ryan Howard), Seattle Mariners with two (Robinson Cano, Felix Hernandez) and the Los Angeles Dodgers (Clayton Kershaw, Zack Greinke).
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Most Recent Sweeps in the Conference Finals
Sweeps in the conference finals aren’t common, but they do happen from time to time. Over the last 25 years we’ve had seven of them, including two by Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls. This year, with both the Cleveland Cavaliers (with LeBron James) and the Golden State Warriors (with Stephen Curry), we might have the first double conference finals sweep in NBA playoff history.
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Top 10 Players With the Most All-NBA Teams Selections
With the 2015 All-NBA team selections out and about, Tim Duncan joins Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Kobe Bryant as the only players with 15 selections all-time, more than any other NBA player, while Dirk Nowitzki completed the shortlist of three among the active players in the top 10.
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NBA Playoffs – LeBron James is Almost Perfect in Conference Finals
Whether you measure it by wins per appearance or by diving deeper into the analytics of it all, LeBron James has been fantastic over the years in conference finals series, coming out with his hand on top in all but one occasion.
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FC Barcelona – La Liga Championship in Numbers
Part of every championship run is looking into some of the numbers that defined the season. It’s the same for Barcelona, getting yet another vintage Lionel Messi goal to secure yet another La Liga title in the club’s golden age, which has been going on for quite some time.
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NBA Rumors – Minnesota Timberwolves Should Move East; Expansion in Vancouver, Montreal & Seattle?
Expansion is a way of life for the big North American sports leagues, including the NBA. While it’s not going to happen right away, the feeling of change and expanding is in the air. Suggesting to shift the Memphis Grizzlies, New Orleans Pelicans and the Minnesota Timberwolves East, while teams in Vancouver, Seattle and Montreal might be a thing of the future.