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First Cup: Monday

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

John Jackson of the Chicago Sun-Times: "It's a best-of-three series now, and the Bulls remain heavy underdogs. Two of the final three games a...

Blog | April 27, 2009

Playoff Warmup Bullets

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...but I could not stop watching this. If that doesn't give you playoff fever, nothing will. About the NBA and research into referee bias. More to come on this topic next week. A...

Blog | April 17, 2009

First Cup: Friday

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...39;t follow March Madness into complete predictability over the next eight weeks, if the NBA stuffed its postseason, which begins this weekend, with one surprise outcome after another. It would cause quite a...

Blog | April 17, 2009

A.B.C. Teams: All But the Championship

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference, they can take solace in the fact that they aren't the first teams to find out just how elusive an NBA championship can be...

Blog | April 06, 2009

First Cup: Friday

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...Fisher fell into Barry in the closing seconds of a playoff game on that floor last season. The foul was so egregious that the NBA said it should have been called, but Barry said he...

Blog | January 16, 2009

First Cup: Tuesday

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Ronald Tillery of The Commercial-Appeal: "Grizzlies center Hamed Haddadi, the first NBA player from Iran, and Omri Casspi, the first Israeli player in the league, met at midcourt and...

Blog | November 24, 2009

First Cup: Thursday

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Eddie Sefko of The Dallas Morning News: "The NBA is the ultimate what-have- you-done lately league. A day after Dirk Nowitzki's outrageous fourth...

Blog | November 05, 2009

Your Second-Favorite Team

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NBA fandom usually begins with the love of a team. My love of the NBA, for instance, springs...

Blog | August 21, 2009

The High-Grade Sleepers

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

Posted by Kevin Arnovitz NBA training camps are still a few weeks away...2007. This was the last game of the postseason's opening weekend, a perfunctory item of business...

Blog | August 17, 2009

First Cup: Wednesday

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...all wondered how Kurt Rambis, scion of the House of Laker, would cope with this plunge into NBA serfdom. 'I played in Charlotte after we won the '88 title,' Rambis said Tuesday...

Blog | August 12, 2009

Lessons from the Schedule

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ESPN's Chris Sheridan has a thorough rundown of some of the best NBA games on the 2009-2010 schedule. My favorite line: Oct 29: San Antonio at Chicago (TNT) Richard...

Blog | August 04, 2009

The Back of the (Really Large Manila) Envelope Guide to the Las Vegas Summer League

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...Howland, the former Fairfax High standout went undrafted as a senior and will try to make an NBA team the hard way. Cleveland Cavaliers Christian Eyenga The Cavs surprised the league and their fans with...

Blog | July 09, 2009

First Cup: Thursday

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...39;t." Michael Rosenberg of the Detroit Free Press: "No other general manager in the NBA has done it. And here is Joe Dumars, trying to do it twice. Dumars built the 2004...

Blog | July 02, 2009

First Cup: Tuesday

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George Diaz of the Orlando Sentinel: "If this were baseball, you could limit the pitch count if your top left-hander was coming back to the rotat...

Blog | June 02, 2009

First Cup: Tuesday

Henry Abbott, TrueHoop

...chance to become an NBA champion." Jeff Schultz of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "But tonight, the Hawks are someplace few figured they would be. In Cleveland. In the playoffs. Playing. It doesn't...

Blog | May 05, 2009