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Bill Simmons on the Lakers' uncanny ability to finesse a deal without giving up the farm: "And as always with the Lakers, it worked out: They flipped the league's second-best center (a top-20 player) into the league's best center (and third-best play...

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In a parallel universe last night, NBA fans were treated to a Bulls-Thunder/Spurs-Trail Blazers doubleheader. Basketball Prospectus' Bradford Doolittle ran the simulation and found that Derrick Rose went off for 34 points. For those tracking the Kevi...

Issac Baldizon/Getty Images Doug Collins was certain that Dwyane Wade would get the ball down the stretch. He was right. The Heat won a somewhat inelegant, but hard-fought test in Game 1 vs. the Sixers, 97-89. A few of the more interesting developm...

Wizards owner Ted Leonsis: "Last night there was a pick-up game played at Verizon Center on our practice court. There were many NBA players in attendance and a few NBA All-Stars played as well. I stumbled into watching purely by accident. Gilbert Are...

More good stuff on the positional revolution, this time from Jesse Blanchard of 48 Minutes of Hell. Blanchard writes that defensive roles are much harder to define than offensive ones, which makes reclassifying (or declassifying, so to speak) defensi...

More Fast Draw goodness, this time from Andrew McNeill of 48 Minutes of Hell. We generally regard the Spurs' Richard Jefferson as a spot-up shooter best positioned in the corner, but through video analysis and diagrams, McNeill demonstrates that Jeff...

Lisa Blumenfeld/NBAE via Getty Images Could a team with this tandem give the All-Star squads a game? The All-Star Game is a collection of the best basketball talent in the world, but it rarely produces anything resembling the best basketball. Count...