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Nuggets coach George Karl was on SiriusXM's Beyond the Brink Tuesday morning, saying he expects somebody will beat the Heat: I think all season long everybody in basketball thought Oklahoma City was the best team in the west, but were they mature en...

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Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE/Getty Images Another big win, this time against some of the NBA's best. Justin Kubatko, of Basketball-Reference, doesn't mess around with numbers. He doesn't get all excited about things that don't matter. And the other day...

Eddie Sefko of The Dallas Morning News: "The Mavericks officially have the Los Angeles Lakers' attention. And the rest of the NBA's, too. Announcing themselves as serious championship contenders, the Mavericks took down the Lakers for the second time...

By John Hollinger ATLANTA -- Rookie coach Larry Drew has taken a lot of heat for his stewardship of the Atlanta Hawks this season, but for the second straight game he had all the right answers as the Hawks beat an Eastern Conference contender. ...

Charlie from Roundball Mining Company on the (undefeated!) post-Melo Nuggets: "Just a few days ago, this was a zombie team hardly recognizable as the former contenders they once were. The only thing driving them was the undead rumor mill of Melo spec...

David Liam Kyle/NBAE/Getty Images Kevin Garnett and Boston aren't looking like contenders. Zach Lowe of CelticsHub has been wrestling with the Celtics' performance this season: In late January, when the C's were in the middle of a 4-7 stretch, I t...

by Chad Ford Golden State Warriors swingman Stephen Jackson has been openly pining for a trade for weeks. He's tried to force the Warriors to dump him by publicly demanding a trade to a contender, skirmishing with coach Don Nelson (and being suspe...

By John Hollinger ATLANTA - This is the difference between the Nuggets and most of the other contenders: Depth. Teams like Orlando and the Lakers can shrug off the loss of a starter or two and still claw their way to victories, as they've done in ...

The Painted Area is following every second of action of Eurobasket 2009 in Poland, and has this report on Day 2's action: GROUP A: Greece 76, Croatia 68 In a battle of Group A heavyweights (and medal contenders), Greece's near flawless fir...

Posted by Kevin Arnovitz One telling attribute of a contender is the ability to persevere when one of its best players is on the shelf. While beating the Clippers twice in 72 hours is no crowning achievement, the Jazz have looked strong during ...

Memphis owner Michael Heisley talked to Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski about the trade of Pau Gasol (which Heisley has previously said was his own doing) that made the Lakers into title contenders: When much of the league was determined to make a seriou...

Allen Iverson and Kevin Garnett had been leading contenders to pull it off. If Garnett really does get traded--as seems increasingly likely--you'd have to put your money on Kobe Bryant, Dirk Nowitzki, and Dwyane Wade as most likely. The Painted Ar...

Erin (whose blog has a nice running tally at the top right of Rasheed's technicals this season) has a feeling there are two primary contenders. (Where was this on Halloween?) Chris Jeffries looks 10% like Malcolm Gladwell: And Ratko Varda lo...

From a dollars and cents perspective, the most important question in the NBA right now is this: what uniform will LeBron James be wearing for the prime years of his career? The two known contenders are Bruce Ratner's (and a few others including LeBro...

I barely go a week without saying something to my wife like: "You know, that's just like the NBA..." then I rattle off some theory about how making a good dinner is like building a championship contender, or being a good parent is like being a good c...