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Bill Simmons

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Bill Simmons writes for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine as "The Sports Guy." In this role, Simmons writes several columns each week for ESPN.com and one column every issue for ESPN The Magazine.

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The biggest winners of the '09 playoffs

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

Now that the 2009 NBA playoffs are in the books, Marc Stein takes a look at the biggest winners.

Story | Conversation | June 16, 2009

Rating the first playoff weekend

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

Story | Conversation | April 20, 2009

Weekend Dime: Top NBA Story Lines

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Getty Images Bryant, McGrady and Garnett have helped make this a most memorable '07-08. But amazingly, KB24's theatrics, T-Mac's streak and KG's parq...

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Weekend Dime: Top trios in the NBA

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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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Thomas gives Suns a big boost

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

PHOENIX -- The promotion of Kurt Thomas to the starting lineup wasn't going to fix everything for the desperate Phoenix Suns. It's never that simple a...

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Positive ID check for Suns

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PHOENIX -- They did not knock Dirk Nowitzki out of the MVP lead or send his Dallas Mavericks scurrying into therapy or even clinch the No. 2 seed in t...

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SPECIAL WEEKEND EDITION Why the West must be won

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Editor's note: ESPN.com senior NBA writer Marc Stein supplies each item for this around-the-league notebook edition of the Daily Dime. Brace yourselv...

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SPECIAL WEEKEND EDITION NBA has technical problems

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Editor's note: ESPN.com senior NBA writer Marc Stein supplies each item for this around-the-league notebook edition of the Daily Dime. A week-plus in...

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Without Kobe, Lakers shine

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

Andrew Bynum had to be quaking as a 19-year-old who was asked for the first time, like so many legends before him, to start for the Lakers at center. ...

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Suns eclipse Hollywood ending

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PHOENIX -- Before the opening tap came another kind of tip, whispered in the bowels of the U.S. Airways Center: Word was Steve Nash will be officiall...

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The Big Bang: A brief history of Bell vs. Bryant

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Marc Stein recounts the nasty six-year battle between the Suns' Raja Bell and the Lakers' Kobe Bryant.

Story | Conversation | May 06, 2006

Lakers stirred, Suns shaken

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The Phoenix Suns would love for America to believe that they were simply dizzy Wednesday night, dazed by a couple days of guesswork about which Kobe B...

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Brent Barry's deep thoughts

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APAfter mighty struggles in Round 2 against the Sonics, Barry was mighty good on Sunday: 21 points, 8-for-12 shooting, five 3s, and three steals. PHO...

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And the winner is ...

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Marc Stein knows exactly what the title chances are for every team, including Gilbert Arenas and the Wizards.

Story | Conversation | April 20, 2005