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NBA Rumors – Chicago Bulls & Jimmy Butler Playoff Bound Again
The Chicago Bulls needed Jimmy Butler back to stop the losing and to put themselves back within the top 8 in the East. It worked, even if it has a lot more to do with Doug McDermott feeling very comfortable against the Toronto Raptors.
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NBA Rumors – Cleveland Cavaliers & LeBron James Sometimes Erase the Doubts
While the common perception of the Cleveland Cavaliers is of a very good team that just isn’t going to be good enough to win the NBA championship unless one major upset happens in the Western conference, some of their performances this season, with LeBron James at the helm and those around him doing just about enough of the right thing, makes it seem like maybe they should be taken more seriously.
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NBA Rumors – Golden State Warriors Transformed When Draymond Green Gets Into it
The remarkable comeback by the Golden State Warriors in their fourth quarter onslaught on the Phoenix Suns wasn’t surprising or special at all. Stephen Curry scored the points, but once again, all of it wouldn’t have been possible without Draymond Green.
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NBA Rumors – Thunder Can’t be Champions, Even With Durant & Westbrook
The loss to the San Antonio Spurs was a classic Oklahoma City Thunder moment of realizing that no matter how good Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant are as players, the team built around them just isn’t going to win an NBA championship.
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NBA Rumors – Houston Rockets a Dead Team Walking
Making the playoffs or not, the Houston Rockets, with the concept that puts James Harden at the heart of this team, aren’t going to win a championship or even come close. Everything happening now is just basketball redundancy. A team wrongly put together, with players that can’t wait for it all to fall apart, and go their separate ways.
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NBA Rumors – Dallas Mavericks Stuck in Mediocrity, the League’s Worst Sin
And the Dallas Mavericks are at .500. Again. And it seems their inability to become more than just a good team and make some sort of impact in the playoffs is going to be part of their M.O for this postseason (if they even make it) and next season as well. The attempt to build a championship team in the final years of Dirk Nowitzki on a court is failing miserably.
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NBA Rumors – Golden State Warriors Dominant Even When Stephen Curry Sucks
One of the more despair inducing things in the NBA right now is watching the Golden State Warriors roll over opponents even when Stephen Curry is having a bad shooting night. They’re just that good.
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NBA Rumors – Cleveland Cavaliers, LeBron James Unhappy With How This Season is Turning out
The Cleveland Cavaliers aren’t letting the Memphis Grizzlies loss slip by unnoticed. LeBron James is trying to use it as another rallying call for a team that’s expected to contend for the NBA championship, but sometimes pulls off inexplicable losses which show a problem in preparation and maybe focus, which can be interpreted in different ways heading into the playoffs.
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NBA Rumors – Los Angeles Lakers Look Happy When Kobe Bryant Isn’t Playing
The NBA is a more interesting place when the Los Angeles Lakers are a good team. The closer Kobe Bryant is to retirement and the closer Byron Scott is to getting fired the sunnier it gets over the golden half of the Staples center, with D’Angelo Russell, Julius Randle and Jordan Clarkson finding more and more reasons to smile recently.
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NBA Rumors – Golden State Warriors Don’t Disparage Twice in a Row
The Golden State Warriors always bounce back from their losses this season, especially when Stephen Curry puts an awful shooting night behind him and moves on right ahead with setting records that no one but him are going to come close to.