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Wednesday Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...colored glasses. 'They just need to believe in themselves like I believed.'"Most improved defense in the NBA so far this young season, based on points allowed per 100 possessions: The Milwaukee Bucks. Most deteriorated...

Blog | November 26, 2008

First Cup: Tuesday

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...a team as well as anyone. In tandem, they set up the Knicks to reach the NBA Finals twice. They were setting the table in Milwaukee before ownership got meddlesome. Eddie Jordan is unemployed...

Blog | November 25, 2008

Monday Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...it is unfair to call Gasol a franchise player because he helped the Lakers to the NBA Finals, while dismissing Randolph, as the Lakers had a very good chance to make the Finals without...

Blog | November 24, 2008

First Cup: Thursday

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...put Pau Gasol with the league's Most Valuable Player, Kobe Bryant. The Lakers reached the NBA Finals. Tonight, as they come to Phoenix for the first time this season, they are the Western...

Blog | November 20, 2008

Sam Cassell on Being a Veteran

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...tell Doc, 'Let him play. Just let him play.' Like in game six (of the 2008 NBA Finals). I could have subbed for him but I said to Doc, 'He's playing well. Let...

Blog | November 18, 2008

Friday: First Cup

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...middle school cross-country runner. Then when asked why bother playing again after 15 years in the NBA, Hunter pointed to his father. 'My Dad (another Lindsey) worked at General Motors for 30 years,' said...

Blog | November 14, 2008

Thursday: First Cup

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...because we only play two times a year,' James said. 'Bird and Magic played in the NBA Finals three times in four years, and they played in the NCAA championship game the year before...

Blog | November 13, 2008

Friday: First Cup

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...to say he knew Billups would develop into the player he was in Detroit, being an NBA Finals MVP and three times an All-Star. 'When he was in Denver, he never got the...

Blog | November 07, 2008

Monday: First Cup

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...mind talking about his two years with the Pistons. It brought him two trips to the NBA Finals and his only NBA title. 'I love those guys,' Brown told reporters. 'Joe Dumars not only...

Blog | November 03, 2008

Mailbag: Singletary stirs passions

Mike Sando, NFC West

Posted by ESPN.com's Mike Sando Jon from Goleta, Calif., writes: Your assumption that MIKE SINGLETARY will be or already is a "punch line" in his lock...

Blog | October 31, 2008

First Cup: Thursday

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...96-76 laugher Tuesday against Portland. The second night is considered a telling test of endurance for NBA teams, often separating contenders from the pack. As such, Coach Phil Jackson didn't pause when asked...

Blog | October 30, 2008

Breaking Down Kevin Garnett

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...from last years Finals: It was the free throws that haunted him. Kevin Garnett had played horribly in one of the biggest games of his life -- Game 5 of the 2008 NBA Finals against the...

Blog | October 29, 2008

First Cup: Thursday

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...fully appreciated. Odom is the Lakers' great enigma, perhaps the most perplexing, confounding, frustrating player in the NBA. One moment he's brilliant and daring (Lakers vs. Utah, second-round playoffs, 2008, with an 18...

Blog | October 23, 2008

Tuesday Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...time to sort themselves out. Sometimes there are NBA players, I think, (Antonio McDyess and Rasheed Wallace...the Kings I decided to watch the Olympic final again because all I could actually remember from...

Blog | October 14, 2008

Second Cup: Training Camp Thursday

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...would go something like this: So I'm to blame for getting the Mavericks to the NBA Finals for the only time in franchise history? So I'm to blame for coaching Dirk Nowitzki...

Blog | October 02, 2008