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Russell Westbrook, Not as Good as Advertised
Some players walk a fine line between being underrated and overrated. Which is Russell Westbrook? The Oklahoma City Thunder point guard is one of the more polarizing players in the NBA today, but when looking at certain numbers and just the way Westbrook plays and behaves, it draws to a conclusion that he isn’t as good as the hype around him might suggest.
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Kyrie Irving, the Best Clutch Player in the NBA
There are always arguments about who is the best shooter in “money-time” this season in the NBA. Kevin Durant gets a lot of appreciation when it comes to crunch time performance, but Kyrie Irving, facing Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder, has proven that it might be him.
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2013 NBA All-Star Game Rosters
The NBA has released the names of the reserves in the 2013 All-Star game, making the Miami Heat, with Chris Bosh joining LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, as the only team with three players on the rosters, while no less than six players got their first selection, five of them in the Eastern conference.
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Kyrie Irving Makes Celtics Looks Older Than Ever
Amid all the talks of needing a trade or not, the Boston Celtics had to go through the Kyrie Irving experience. Not fun, not good. Irving exploded with 40 points, leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to their second win in three games, something that hasn’t happened in over a month.
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NBA Opening Night – From LeBron James to the Lakers Fab Five
The 2012-2013 NBA season opens with three games, with two of them grabbing most of the spotlight. The champions Miami Heat host their biggest rivals in the East, the Boston Celtics, as Ray Allen gets his first chance to play against his former team before the old Dallas Mavericks play the old Los Angeles Lakers although Dirk Nowitzki won’t be playing and Kobe Bryant might not be showing up as well.
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10 Youngest Teams in the NBA
So what’s better to have when you’re trying to win an NBA title – Youth or Experience? Probably, almost universally speaking, experience. Talent is the actual deciding factor, but teams filled with young stuff are usually in some sort of rebuild mode. The Oklahoma City Thunder, with their three stars all under 24 at the moment, are the exception, and probably a bit of a fluke in how they came together.
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13 NBA Point Guards Better Than Jeremy Lin
The Houston Rockets, via their poison-pill contract, have ensured that Lin will be one of the highest paid players in the NBA in 2014-2015, earning just under $15 million that season. While financially Lin’s presence will probably pay-off the contract, he’s not that good.
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Kyrie Irving Dresses as Old Man to Hustle Some Street-Ballers
Kyrie Irving is probably bored without any postseason basketball to participate in, so he goes around dresses as an old man and worms his way into public basketball courts, fooling young and unsuspecting players around the country before springing out his Rookie of the year abilities.
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Rising Stars Challenge Simply Doesn’t Work
Kyrie Irving won the MVP of a boring Rising Stars challenge game that became some random schoolyard picking of Shaq vs Chuck, instead of finding some actual common ground for the players as the All-Star weekend doesn’t have much to offer before the Sunday game.