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    K*be looks, uh, beefier than normal. Maybe that's a result of being out for the better part of a year. Maybe it's due to being my age. Maybe it's due to, um, potential side effects from "vitamins" used in recovery. Maybe it's maybelline.
     
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    How bad is it when you can't land a starting job with Rose, Deng, Noah, and Jimmy Butler not playing? Poor Taj.
     
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    Yeah, careful what you wish for those considering the switch to HD. It's a blessing and a curse.
     
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    Barkley's All-Star picks are usually great comedy
     
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    mere minutes after Nick Young pump-fakes a FT, Dragic triple-pump-fakes two separate L*kers around the basket for an and-one.

    EDIT: for your viewing pleasure, courtesy of Golliver stealing Pelton's tweeted idea. ;)

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    Looks like he lost the handle
     
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    Why would you pump fake a free throw, especially the first one?
     
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    did the L*ker Girls become the Carls Jr. Girls while I was gone? What's with the star on the tops?
     
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    Totally disagree. Cleveland should have done anything possible to assemble the BEST TEAM. Did the Bulls ask Jordan who to bring to the Bulls? Did Pat Riley ask Wade who to bring to Miami? No. Championship franchises go make the best moves for the team. Incompetent franchises that have no clue how to run an NBA team ask their star players what to do.
     
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    How do you know that LeBron wanted to leave in 2008? So is this the same rational that led you to think LaMarcus would for certain leave the Blazers and we should've traded him months ago?

    You don't know if LeBron planned to leave Cleveland before he was a free agent. There were reports he was recruiting Bosh to join him in Clevaland as a free agent days before they all signed in Miami. LeBron said on camera he decided to sign with Miami the day before the Decision. Just because they talked about playing together during the Olympics doesn't mean they would actually sign together.

    Dwight and Deron talked about playing together. CP3 and Melo talked about playing together.
     
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    Actually the exact same rationale. In the LMA case, he said he wouldn't re-sign here. In this case, Bosh said that they'd been working on the Heat signing for "months".
    They talked about signing together since 2006 (not with MIA, obviously), but colluding (in the non-illegal definition of the term, at least according to Stern) to line all of their contracts up so they'd be UFA's at the same time. Bosh said that the "Decision" had been planned for "months". They worked with CAA to get their agents all on the same page.
    http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2010/07/inside_the_decision_miamis_cou.html
     
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    Suns up 7 on LAL with 37 seconds left. Cue Eric...
     
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    Problem is they couldn't assemble crap. They just put pieces together that didn't fit... Kinda like they're doing now.
     
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    Dragic with 31 tonight. But it was the Morris bros combing for 39 off the bench that made the difference down the stretch. Phoenix is tough when they can rebound and block shots with 5 guys on the court that can all shoot from deep.
     
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    Lakers are 0-2 with Kobe back :lol:
     
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    Who'd he pick? None of them picked us to make the playoffs.
     
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    Its good they locked him up to an extension. $50 million for a guy almost as good as Xavier Henry.
     
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    Hahaha
     
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    On Cowherd this morning, Michael Wallace reports that Oden is still doing conditioning work, that he's slated for full-time practicing/bb-related activities in January, and joining the rotation before the All-Star Break. FWIW.
     
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    Again on Cowherd, he brought up how "young and talented teams" take regular season more seriously than, say, SAS or MIA b/c they feel they need HCA. SAS/MIA feel they can win anywhere.

    Colin's "young and talented" teams were POR, HOU, GSW, IND.
     
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