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Minnesota Timberwolves – Doing Great Without Kevin Love and Ricky Rubio
Believe it or not, the Minnesota Timberwolves are 4-1 to start off the season despite playing without both Kevin Love and Ricky Rubio. Their latest victims in their surprising start were the struggling Indiana Pacers, who simply messed up on the final play, allowing Chase Budinger to score a game winning layup with 0.8 second left on the clock.
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Kobe Bryant Enjoying Los Angeles Lakers Without Mike Brown
Forget what the words say. Kobe Bryant, the rest of the players, the front office of the Los Angeles Lakers. See actions, see energy, see faces. Everyone was waiting for Mike Brown to get the axe sooner or later, Bryant, maybe more than all of them. Magic happens, and without Brown the Lakers ran away for an easy win for only the second time this season.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Mike Brown Firing Only a Question of Time
It’s amazing who an organization can send out all kinds of signals before doing the exact opposite. I guess that eventually, the look that Kobe Bryant gave Mike Brown on the bench during the loss to the Utah Jazz did mean what it looked like. Just a season and a bit at the job, only 71 regular season games, and Mike Brown is no longer the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers.
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Jamal Crawford Makes The Los Angeles Clippers Contenders
Yes, you read the title correctly. The Los Angeles Clippers, with a 4-2 record through the first week and a bit of the 2012-2013 NBA Season are contenders to win the West. Blake Griffin made them interesting, Chris Paul made them a force to be reckoned with in the West. Now Jamal Crawford seems to be another piece completing a puzzle that might see the team go further than ever before.
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Oklahoma City Thunder – Serge Ibaka Sets Stage for Kevin Durant
Last time Serge Ibaka scored at least 21 points? It’s been two years to be exact. Too much for a big man that should be more than about defense, dunks and blocks. On another awful shooting night from Russell Westbrook, someone needed to help Kevin Durant on his way to a big finish in Chicago, giving the Oklahoma City Thunder their first road win of the season.
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Los Angeles Clippers – DeAndre Jordan, Defense and Dunks
This is what it was like for the San Antonio Spurs during their first loss this season. DeAndre Jordan flying high, and what people call the Los Angeles Clippers since the arrival of Blake Griffin and later Chris Paul, Lob City, in full effect. And lets not forget about the Clippers’ underrated defense, that has been looking pretty good early on this season.
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Miami Heat – When the Defense Does all the Work
This is how the Miami Heat want to be known as. A team that wins through defense first. Obviously, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and Ray Allen are going to get most of the praise for their stat sheets and the points they score, but the work they do on defense is usually the foundation for the team’s success.
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Los Angeles Lakers Not Figuring it Out
Another game, another loss. The Los Angeles Lakers version 2012-2013, one of the more megalomaniac projects in recent years the NBA has seen, are simply not taking off the ground. They’re now 1-4, with Kobe Bryant growing frustrated, Dwight Howard not adding the kind of defense he was expected to and Mike Brown taking most of the heat.
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Indiana Pacers – Paul George Isn’t Danny Granger Just Yet
I remember reading a few posts last season around the web about how the Indiana Pacers will benefit from trading Danny Granger, already on the decline according to them, and letting Paul George take over his roles, being the bigger potential and the future of the team. Now Danny Granger is out for three months, and it’s really up to George to try and make up for all the lost points and more.
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Denver Nuggets – Andre Iguodala Finally Winning
It’s hard to put a finger on who really made the difference for the Denver Nuggets as they won their first game of the season. Maybe it was the fact that they finally got to play in front of their home crowd, in their new Canaries-yellow jerseys. Maybe it was just Andre Iguodala finally doing what he was brought over for – Defense, an unknown word and discipline recently for the Nuggets.