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Whatever happened to July 1st?
You used to have to wait until midnight, the start of the next month, just past the point of tampering, to show up at Antonio Davis’ door and ask him to be your free agent. These days we burn right through. Six-trillion NBA deals before June concludes, this email documents
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The NBA gets warmer
Maybe they were right, last week, when they told us the NBA draft would be full of trades. When they encouraged us to tune in because, hey, 90 percent of the NBA tries to make the playoffs now, 88 percent of the NBA is unhappy with its potential playoff rotation,
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Top 30 NBA draft misses
I thought it would work out
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Never Too Much podcast: 2021-22
Never Too Much podcast: 2021-220:00/2001× Look at this amazing painting.
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Golden State, America's Team
Ime Udoka let loose a little dig at the Warriors’ expense in Game 6, on national broadcast television. If the Warriors won’t be “deliberate” with their shots, Udoka told Lisa Salters before the fourth quarter, Boston might as well take advantage.
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Andrew Wiggins knows his role
It’s hard to be a superstar. In baseball, they pitch around you. In football, they’ll load the line. Basketball? No getting around it, even Jordan had rules. There are only a handful of pros capable of handling 20 shots a night without killing their team. For most NBA
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Never Too Much podcast: Game Fives
Never Too Much podcast: Game Fives0:00/2001× (Never Too Much podcast: Bulls/Lakers Game 5 in 1991, Warriors/Celtics Game 5 in 2022, Christopher Cross’ muse.) LOUDMOUTH POWER FORWARD RUINS FINALS “Just because basketball is not the most important thing in my life, I apologize to the world,” he
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Steph ties it up
The winner of Game 4 was going to earn a serious edge — 3-1 lead but with the next game on the road or tied 2-2 but with home court advantage — so Golden State fell back on the things we expected. Thing. Good muscle memory down the stretch for Golden State,
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Questions for Game 4
Questions for Game 40:00/2001× (Never Too Much podcast: Gobert on the Bulls, the Finals on our hands, opening $28 worth of used LPs.) 1. How are you feeling, Robert Williams Robert Williams when asked how he’s feeling today: “feeling good this morning. One of my better days.
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Boston wins Game 3, takes 2-1 lead
Stephen Curry tried to go for 25 in the third quarter. Steve Kerr ran pick and roll. Klay Thompson came back, and Golden State’s bench showed up. Yet the Celts were not to be had. The Warriors gave their Golden, yet Boston was better, and pulled the 2-1 series
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Focus on Game 3
The Celtics will be terrified on Wednesday night. This young team is familiar playing deep into the postseason but there is nothing like the pressure of defending home court in the Finals, especially with a smirking set of Warriors on the other side of the stripe.