Ric Bucher

Ric Bucher

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Ric 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.

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Rating the first playoff weekend

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

Here are eight bests culled from the first eight games of the NBA playoffs.

Story | Conversation | April 20, 2009

Stein Line's Season-Ending Award Ballots

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

Noah 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...

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Stein Line's Season-Ending Award Ballots

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

Noah 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...

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Weekend Dime: Top trios in the NBA

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

Getty 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...

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Tony's crew works Cavs over

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

SAN ANTONIO -- You've clicked to the wrong place if you're looking for "Sopranos" explanations, frustrations or commiserations. All we can do her...

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Tony's crew works Cavs over

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

SAN ANTONIO -- You've clicked to the wrong place if you're looking for "Sopranos" explanations, frustrations or commiserations. All we can do her...

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Decade later, still a prize pick

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

SAN 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...

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Last chance for these Suns?

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

SAN 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...

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For Suns, everything but a W

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

PHOENIX -- 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...

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West's best looking shaky

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

The 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 ...

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SPECIAL WEEKEND EDITION And the award goes to ...

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

What 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...

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SPECIAL WEEKEND EDITION Passing some hefty judgments

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

Editor'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...

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Manu School

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

APDuncan 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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