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Since this game was the meat of a back-to-back-to-back sandwich, and it wasn’t competitive or interesting, I’m doing a rapid-fire bullets wrap: * Kevin Love had the flu and did not play. This was a bad thing for the Wolves.…
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Well, that was interesting. I had planned on doing a special post that analyzed the Love-Griffin matchup, breaking down each possession where they guarded one another. Since I did the work (the few times the matchup occurred) I’ll post the…
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Since I spent way more time than I’d like to admit watching the weekend’s All-Star festivities, I’d be remiss if I didn’t write something about them. Here are some scattered jottings about where the weekend left me as a hoops…
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Patrick J: I asked my good friend George N to write a guest post on “what it means to be an Asian NBA fan and to have Jeremy Lin intervene into his NBA fandom.” He graciously replied with his thoughts…
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Bill Simmons works for ESPN. He’s also called “The Sports Guy.” Apparently he writes a column called “The Sports Column.” He also has a podcast called The B.S. Report, which is a free-flowing conversation that occasionally touches on mature subject matter.…
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(Perhaps you’ve already seen and read The Danny Ainge Anniversary Party, written by Bill Simmons and published this morning on Grantland. In it he uses biting sarcasm and his usual wit to make an absolute mockery of Danny Ainge and…
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What a struggle. For three and a half quarters of tonight’s Wolves-Jazz game, the Target Center crowd mixed groans with boos as Ricky Rubio and Kevin Love tried to one-up each other with ugly missed shots and turnovers. Love was…