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NBA Story Lines to Follow Until the Playoffs
With two months and somewhere between 30-25 games left to play for the teams, there’s plenty to look forward to in what’s left of the NBA season, including the MVP battle between Kevin Durant and LeBron James, the whole Los Angeles Lakers saga with time running against them, who emerges from the East to challenge the Miami Heat and more.
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NBA Scorers a Dying Breed
If the pace and rate of scoring doesn’t make a drastic change in the next couple of months, despite the fantastic seasons of Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James, the NBA will have the fewest number of 20-point-per-game scorers in nearly 50 years.
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LeBron James Has Bigger Fish to Fry This NBA Season
The All-Star game? A forgotten memory. When you’re the reigning NBA Champion, MVP and Finals’ MVP, not scoring in the fourth quarter of the All-Star game while getting blocked twice by Kobe Bryant seems meaningless and insignificant, especially when you’re LeBron James.
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NBA All-Star Game Outcome Doesn’t Change
The West don’t always have the better starting lineup, but they usually have the much deeper team (and conference), which explains why they’ve beaten the East three times in a row in the NBA All-Star game, as Chris Paul dominated the start and finish, beating the too serious Kevin Durant for the MVP award, while LeBron James seemed to be trying a bit too hard to make this one mean something.
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Michael Jordan Won’t Be the Greatest of All Time Forever
Before Michael Jordan, there were Magic Johnson, and Oscar Robertson and Wilt Chamberlain. And those who watched them during their prime moved along, although the Magic-Michael era was pretty close. Still, players’ legacy are only as good as the memory of the dominating media members. At some point, Jordan won’t be the one mentioned as all-time greatest in the NBA.
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Expect Kobe Bryant to Try and Take Over the All-Star
The least surprising outcome of the night, in my opinion Kobe Bryant setting another NBA All-Star game record, this time winning a fifth MVP, after forgetting this is also about superstars working together, not just enhancing their own brand name, and putting on a ball-hogging performance for generations to enjoy.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Shows Who is the Real MVP
Ignore the fact that Kevin Durant scored one point more than LeBron James. He wasn’t even close to the level needed to outshine LeBron James, going through an unstoppable stretch, for once not troubled by the fact that the Miami Heat traveled to play away from home, against the the team with the best record in the NBA.
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Kevin Martin Helping the Durant-Westbrook Duo Dominate
Something wasn’t normal with Kevin Martin as the Oklahoma City Thunder cruised to a 119-98 win against the exhausted Golden State Warriors. Whatever it was, it worked, as Martin joined Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook, combining for 68 points in the win.
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Oklahoma City Thunder – Quiet Kevin Durant Makes For Easy Wins
If Kevin Durant finishes a game with only 11 field goals attempted, it can only mean two things: either Russell Westbrook was in one of his selfish modes while Scott Brooks is too afraid to bench him, or the game went so well the Oklahoma City Thunder didn’t need their best player to do what he does best.
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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.