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			<title><![CDATA[Wednesday Bullets]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...what they were always going to do anyway? I fail to see the crisis here. They're basketball players. A lot of them want to play basketball. Sometimes they get hurt playing for their national...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 16, 2009 11:32:12 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The essential Reggie Miller documentary]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...Dan Klores and the makers of the documentary "Winning Time," which chronicles the verbal, emotional, physical and basketball battles between Reggie Miller's Pacers and the New York Knicks. It'll be on ESPN in...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 16, 2009 09:48:53 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[First Cup: Wednesday]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...world champions,' he emphasized -- had enough interest to sign him during the off-season. 'This is a basketball environment.' Artest recently acknowledged drinking at halftime of NBA games earlier in his career." Jerome Solomon of...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 16, 2009 06:04:48 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Team USA: Scouting tales from Poland and Puerto Rico]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...Sheridan Tony Ronzone, the chief scout for Team USA and the head international scout (and director of basketball operations) for the Detroit Pistons, is quoted extensively in an analysis column I wrote today on Team...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 15, 2009 12:14:34 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Chris Paul's role: Superstar]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Layne Murdoch/NBAE via Getty Images
If Chris Paul did less, could the Hornets do more?
By Henry Abbott

Role player.

Here's the idea: You have a job ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 15, 2009 07:48:26 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[First Cup: Tuesday]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...himself into other interests, including his first year as owner of the Shanghai Sharks in the China Basketball Association, with plans to be in Shanghai for the start of the season this month. He arrives...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 15, 2009 06:07:24 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Now starring as Michael Jordan: Allen Iverson]]></title>
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Allen Iverson says he just had a large amount of fluid drained from his left knee.
By Henry Abbott

An aging...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 14, 2009 08:38:07 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[First Cup: Monday]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Frank Isola of the New York Daily News: "Jonathan Bender, who turns 29 next month, worked out for the Knicks last summer but didn't feel he was physic...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 14, 2009 06:02:29 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bulls remain mysterious despite big win]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...a whopping 35 points. Bad times all around. Of course, winning is a wonderful tonic for a basketball player's soul, so it's easy to forgive Gibson for being a little juiced up over...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 12, 2009 06:32:20 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The road back from rock bottom for Chicago]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...as the cliché goes -- one game at a time. But how, exactly, does a team do that? Basketball games are won and lost because teams maximize their players' talents. Execution is vital, and a lack...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 11, 2009 15:29:45 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Friday Bullets]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...with him and usually when you are, he'll talk with you. He's got a good basketball brain. He knows basketball, he understands basketball and I think that's kind of the way we...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 11, 2009 10:00:55 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[First Cup: Friday]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...Globe: "Ray Allen entered last night's game against Washington on the cusp of joining one of basketball's elite clubs. The 13-year veteran needed 14 points to crack the 20,000-point plateau...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 11, 2009 06:04:36 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[No disrespect to your team]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...to reply with to your cranky e-mail and comments! Just send them a link to the Basketball Jones' NBA Love Theme. (And here are the lyrics.) They'll be so dazzled, and overwhelmed with...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 10, 2009 13:17:02 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bill Walton and inflatable Ben Wallace]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[By Henry Abbott There once was a time when the entire basketball blogosphere would fit in a VW bug, if you packed those bloggers tightly. I'm talking ages...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 10, 2009 12:34:03 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Thursday Bullets]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...see it in their eyes, in the way their shoulders slump after a missed shot or turnover. Basketball, especially on the professional level, is a game of split seconds. In most cases, players have a...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 10, 2009 11:25:47 PST EST</pubDate>
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