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Dwight Howard – The Future via Trade or 2013 Free Agency
No matter where Dwight Howard ends up at the end of the 2012-2013 NBA season, he won’t be extending his contract. He’s going to let it run out and then explore free agency, with everyone knowing fully well he has no intention of staying with the Orlando Magic.
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13 NBA Point Guards Better Than Jeremy Lin
The Houston Rockets, via their poison-pill contract, have ensured that Lin will be one of the highest paid players in the NBA in 2014-2015, earning just under $15 million that season. While financially Lin’s presence will probably pay-off the contract, he’s not that good.
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Jeremy Lin Doesn’t Deserve the Respect he Thinks he’s Owed
Do two months of pretty impressive basketball mean that any kind of criticism isn’t warranted? Jeremy Lin thinks he’ll always have doubters. He’s right, because there isn’t a player on this planet with a brigade of critics to push him, including LeBron James and Kobe Bryant and because he just isn’t as good as the media hype around him.
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NBA 2012-2013 Season – Heat vs Celtics as Marquee Opener
There’s nothing better for the NBA’s opening night that A) starting it on time and not on Christmas and B) pitting together two big rivals. The Miami Heat, the NBA champions, needed 7 games and some LeBron James heroics to get past the Boston Celtics in the Eastern conference finals. Ray Allen’s first game against his former team will be another interesting feature to the key match-up of the NBA’s opening night.
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Chicago Bulls – Derrick Rose and the Lost Season
After the Chicago Bulls lost to the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals over a year ago, the future was bright. Derrick Rose was healthy and the reigning MVP, with a deep, young and talented squad around him. The NBA Finals and NBA titles were just around the corner for a very promising team.
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Brooklyn Nets – Presenting the Core Four
In order to lure fans and get them excited about the Nets’ first season in Brooklyn, the franchise decided to take Deron Williams, Joe Johnson, Brook Lopez and Gerald Wallace and label them as the ‘Core Four’; Big X just doesn’t cut it anymore, and this isn’t exactly the most impressive bunch of superstars ever assembled.
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Dwight Howard – The Best NBA Center; the NBA’s most Hated Player
Instead of being a marquee franchise player you want to build around, Dwight Howard has lost every shred of credibility over the last 12 months and the whole saga of trade me – keep me with the Orlando Magic, who built a team around him and tore it apart and fired everyone above him and somehow, are worst off than where they were before.
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Jeremy Lin – Rockets over Knicks good for NBA Balance
The move of Jeremy Lin from the New York Knicks to the Houston Rockets presents an interesting case study of what NBA loyalty means; of what big-market teams and small-market, if you can call Houston a small one, teams are about; of how super-stardom doesn’t have anything to do with what happens on the floor.
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Jeremy Lin Leaving the New York Knicks – The Disgusting Reactions
It’s never surprising to see racism, ignorance and disgusting behavior from people and especially on the Internet. Jeremy Lin leaving the New York Knicks for the Houston Rockets after the Knicks didn’t match the offer sheet brought out the worst out of some people who refer to themselves as fans.
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Jeremy Lin Leaving Knicks Because of James Dolan’s Ego
Although the main reason behind not re-signing Jeremy Lin, letting him leave as a restricted free agent to the Houston Rockets, looks like a financial, salary-cap kind of reason, there are those that suggest that it’s just another example of how un-proffesionaly the New York Knicks are run by their owner, James Dolan.