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NBA Season Preview: Best Power Forwards
When it comes to pure power forwards, or more accurately, players who can’t or hardly will play as centers, there’s not perfect player or complete package. Each flawed in his own way, Josh Smith, Blake Griffin, Pau Gasol, LaMarcus Aldridge and above all Kevin Love consist of the best in the position among NBA players.
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NBA Season Preview: Best Small Forwards
The deepest position in the NBA? Possibly. It’s the most top heavy of them all, with the two best basketball players in the world, LeBron James and Kevin Durant, occupying the top two spots, while Carmelo Anthony follows in his “forever behind those two” routine, before a big drop in quality and ability occurs after the top 3.
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NBA Season Preview: All-Pacific Division Team
The Pacific division has always been about the Los Angeles Lakers and then the other teams, with a few outstanding occasions throughout the years. This season? Nothing much changed, with the arrivals of Steve Nash and Dwight Howard, joining forces with Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol and Metta World Peace in the most star-powered starting five in the NBA.
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NBA Season Preview: All-Southwest Division Team
The San Antonio Spurs are probably the best in the Southwest division, despite the continuing decline of Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili, not making our all-division team, while the Memphis Grizzlies are hoping that this is the season they take over and carry that momentum into the playoffs.
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NBA Season Preview: All-Northwest Division Team
Possibly the best division in the NBA without an actual wimp of a team, but obviously, having the Oklahoma City Thunder as the class act of it, featuring three Dream Team members – Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and James Harden, who didn’t make our starting five.
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NBA Season Preview: All-Southeast Division Team
A division that is about one team, that also concentrates most of the individual talent in it. The Miami Heat, the NBA champions, with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. It also has the worst team in the NBA, the Charlotte Bobcats, who probably won’t look much better this season.
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NBA Season Preview: All-Central Division Team
On to the Central division, where the Chicago Bulls won’t be as dominant as in previous seasons as long as Derrick Rose is out injured. There are some talented guards (Rose, Monta Ellis, Brandon Jennings, Kyrie Irving, Paul George) and a long list of above average and potentially better big men like Roy Hibbert, Greg Monroe, Joakim Noah and Anderson Varejao.
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NBA Season Preview: All-Atlantic Division Team
Quickly surveying the Atlantic division, we can see it’s deep in the point guard position (Rajon Rondo, Deron Williams, Kyle Lowry, Jose Calderon) and with pretty good big men (Kevin Garnett, Amare Stoudemire, Tyson Chandler, Brook Lopez, Andrew Bynum).
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Baseball Is Nearly Back, If You’ve Noticed
The 2012 Baseball season has already started, but it hasn’t been really noticed. The NBA, despite of the lockout, didn’t really take a hit in popularity. Too many stars, too many crowd-pleasers in the league right now. March Madness and College Basketball has been extremely appeasing, despite the apparent uneven field. We’ll see if Kansas can do something about it.