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Ric BucherBio | ChatsRic Bucher joined ESPN in January 1999 as a San Francisco-based senior writer covering professional basketball for ESPN The Magazine, and as an NBA reporter for SportsCenter and NBA 2Night. Bucher also contributes to ESPN.com. |
Rating the first playoff weekend
Marc Stein, ESPN.comHere are eight bests culled from the first eight games of the NBA playoffs.
Story | Conversation | April 20, 2009Stein Line's Season-Ending Award Ballots
Marc Stein, ESPN.comNoah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images If Kobe Bryant and Kevin Durant look serious to you, that's probably because both of them know they're stuck in som...
Page | ConversationStein Line's Season-Ending Award Ballots
Marc Stein, ESPN.comNoah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images If Kobe Bryant and Kevin Durant look serious to you, that's probably because both of them know they're stuck in som...
Page | ConversationWeekend Dime: Top trios in the NBA
Marc Stein, ESPN.comGetty Images Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili, at right, form the NBA's foremost three-man core. But Boston's Ray Allen, Paul Pierce and Kev...
Page | ConversationTony's crew works Cavs over
Marc Stein, ESPN.comSAN ANTONIO -- You've clicked to the wrong place if you're looking for "Sopranos" explanations, frustrations or commiserations. All we can do her...
Page | ConversationTony's crew works Cavs over
Marc Stein, ESPN.comSAN ANTONIO -- You've clicked to the wrong place if you're looking for "Sopranos" explanations, frustrations or commiserations. All we can do her...
Page | ConversationDecade later, still a prize pick
Marc Stein, ESPN.comSAN ANTONIO -- The biggest lottery winners in NBA history were not going to lose on the very day that has been so good to them. CONFERENCE FINALS...
Page | ConversationLast chance for these Suns?
Marc Stein, ESPN.comSAN ANTONIO -- This was believed to be the cleanest shot for Steve Nash and these Phoenix Suns. This was supposed to be their best chance to scale wha...
Page | ConversationFor Suns, everything but a W
Marc Stein, ESPN.comPHOENIX -- They fueled up their loud crowd by surging to a fat lead, clung stubbornly to the last of that lead until the final minute and never looked...
Page | ConversationWest's best looking shaky
Marc Stein, ESPN.comThe Suns needed the speed of Leandro Barbosa to turn back the Lakers, but they couldn't have avoided a Game 1 nightmare of their own without foisting ...
Page | ConversationSPECIAL WEEKEND EDITION And the award goes to ...
Marc Stein, ESPN.comWhat do you get when the final Friday of the regular season falls on Friday the 13th? You get the award ballots I'll be turning into the league offi...
Page | ConversationSPECIAL WEEKEND EDITION Passing some hefty judgments
Marc Stein, ESPN.comEditor's note: ESPN.com senior NBA writer Marc Stein supplies each item for this around-the-league notebook edition of the Daily Dime. If you're shopp...
Page | ConversationManu School
Marc Stein, ESPN.comAPDuncan and Parker, two-thirds of the Spurs' terrific trio, were less spectacular than Ginobili (see below), but no less effective. PHOENIX -- They ...
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