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NBA Rumors – Chicago Bulls, Derrick Rose Looking Better and Better
The winning streak is now up to six, and Derrick Rose looks like a helpful part of the Chicago Bulls instead of someone dragging them back. They’re still not first in the Eastern Conference and maybe won’t get there, but they’re distancing themselves away from the rest.
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NBA Rumors – Los Angeles Lakers & Philadelphia 76ers Taking Tanking to New Depths
One of the ugliest things in the NBA is tanking. It’s even more annoying when teams do it without even trying to hide behind certain words. The Philadelphia 76ers are simply too bad for too long to say anything, while the Los Angeles Lakers admitting this season is sacrificed just so Kobe Bryant can have a nice goodbye from the league should be making a lot more people angry.
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NBA Rumors – Cleveland Cavaliers Getting Scary Kind of Good
The Cleveland Cavaliers are not just playing their best basketball of the season, they’re also impossible to beat at the moment, with LeBron James and Kyrie Irving doing a little bit more than before this time around.
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NBA Rumors – New York Knicks Better, Not Special
Reaching the win total from last season is something of an accomplishment for the New York Knicks. But despite the “new” Carmelo Anthony, the exciting Kristaps Porzingis and a revamped, improved roster, this team is still a few more signings away from being a force in the Eastern conference.
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Kemba Walker Shoots, Jeremy Lin Hobbles, Charlotte Hornets Crash
Losing to the Phoenix Suns is something of a low point for the Charlotte Hornets, falling to five straight losses. Jeremy Lin didn’t play badly but he’s injured. Kemba Walker? He keeps shooting away and usually missing. More than anything, the Hornets need to get healthy.
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NBA Rumors – Chicago Bulls so hot Right Now Even Derrick Rose Looks Great
It’s hard to decide what the biggest set of news is for the Chicago Bulls right now: The fact that they’ve won five games in a row while Jimmy Butler is scorching, or that Derrick Rose, back in action after missing three games, looked good, which is a huge source of optimism.
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NBA Rumors – Sacramento Kings on the Verge of Finding What They’re Looking For
It’s a crucial season for the Sacramento Kings, a team with talent and seemingly all the right pieces, that just don’t seem to fit together most of the time. But wins like theirs, on the road against the Oklahoma City Thunder, once again makes you wonder whether or not this is the season they find their way back into the playoffs.
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NBA Rumors – Cleveland Cavaliers Playing Their Best Basketball for Once
The Cleveland Cavaliers are clearly hitting a right kind of stride and getting comfortable with each other, possibly playing their best game of basketball against what should be one of their most difficult rivals in the East.
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Jeremy Lin Needs the Charlotte Hornets to Believe in Him, Not Just Kemba Walker
The Charlotte Hornets, as expected, fell to four consecutive losses as their visit to the Golden State Warriors went as planned. Kemba Walker led the scoring, Jeremy Lin went through the motions but it was usually his good spurts that put the Hornets on the same level with the defending NBA champions.
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NBA Rumors – Chicago Bulls, Jimmy Butler Can’t Let This Momentum Slip
The Chicago Bulls are on a roll as we begin the 2016 phase of the NBA season, with Jimmy Butler representing everything good about this momentum, all happening without Derrick Rose playing, which is probably more than just a coincidence.