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			<title><![CDATA[Stein: Will Chinese investors sway LeBron?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Selling 15 percent of the franchise to China-based investors helps Cleveland's case, but winning is still the key to keeping LeBron in a Cavs uniform, writes Marc Stein.]]></description>
			<pubDate>June 01, 2009 04:19:23 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Artest hopes for trade from Kings, will act as own agent]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ron Artest will represent himself and hopes for a new team.]]></description>
			<pubDate>July 13, 2008 13:05:05 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Artest says it was a 'mistake' not to opt out of deal with Kings]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[After seeing Elton Brand and Baron Davis unexpectedly put themselves on the free-agent market, Sacramento Kings forward Ron Artest is second-guessing himself for not doing the same.]]></description>
			<pubDate>July 01, 2008 12:30:43 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Three Party triumph: KG leads, Allen scorches and Pierce takes MVP]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[While Boston's 17th NBA title belongs to all of the Celtics' dynamic trio, Paul Pierce put his personal stamp on the series, writes Marc Stein.]]></description>
			<pubDate>June 17, 2008 19:20:34 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Artest wants to play out final season of contract with Kings]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sacramento Kings forward Ron Artest, attending Tuesday night's Game 6 of the NBA Finals, told ESPN.com that he's "99 percent sure I won't opt out of my contract" this month to become a free agent July 1.]]></description>
			<pubDate>June 17, 2008 18:38:45 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Daily Dime: Spurs still benefit from lottery]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...the locker room at halftime with a second-quarter blitz. Step 2: The Spurs mimic the yawning basketball public and get bored with themselves, losing some focus in the fourth quarter and seeing their healthy...]]></description>
			<pubDate>May 22, 2007 12:54:12 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[SPECIAL WEEKEND EDITION Being openly gay in the NBA]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Editor's note: ESPN.com senior NBA writer Marc Stein supplies each item for this around-the-league notebook edition of the Daily Dime.

The NBA's answ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>February 09, 2007 04:09:33 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[SPECIAL WEEKEND EDITION Jermaine explains Indy state]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...and you haven't called me or anything?" But that meeting wasn't anything to do with basketball [or reconciling]. I wanted to try to understand what was bothering him. He had some issues that...]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 30, 2005 06:33:53 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Karl: 'Every game Carmelo's coming a little closer']]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[After a difficult start, Carmelo Anthony's season is closing on an upswing.]]></description>
			<pubDate>April 01, 2005 06:15:49 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Slams and Dunks: Mile High summer]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[From Kenyon Martin to Greg Buckner, the Nuggets have been the biggest offseason winners.]]></description>
			<pubDate>September 13, 2004 09:52:00 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rest of world no pushover]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Team USA is 50-0 in Olympic basketball. But without its stars in Athens, the team is not about to be called dream.]]></description>
			<pubDate>August 03, 2004 10:47:27 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Stein: Stern sees U.S. youth movement]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[David Stern wants to make the selection of new NBA faces for Team USA a regular practice.]]></description>
			<pubDate>August 03, 2004 04:54:02 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[First-rate talent, second-rate performance]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Judging by Team USA's first exhibition game overseas, calling it "co-favorites" for gold may have been too kind.]]></description>
			<pubDate>August 03, 2004 12:24:23 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Team USA's co-captain quite candid]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[After Team USA's first practice, A.I. talked about being an Olympian ... and his ex-coach winning an NBA title.]]></description>
			<pubDate>August 03, 2004 10:41:07 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Brown's strictness indicative of the stakes]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Co-captain Allen Iverson will endure heat for being late to a meeting that got him suspended, but it should not lessen his Team USA stature.]]></description>
			<pubDate>July 31, 2004 12:33:47 PDT EST</pubDate>
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