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Cleveland rolls on0:00/2001× (Nevermore Podcast: the podcast about Queen.) The Cavs downed Indiana on Sunday, halting a three-game skid, winnable contests, all. Everyone is hurt, or out, but Kevin Love stepped up. Kevin Love is the Comeback Player of the Year. They don’t make that award anymore,
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It was hard to watch Joel Embiid in December because it was December, and it barely counted. Embiid is as good as this league gets, his offensive rebound and put-back sealed a win for Philly on Tuesday, only the team’s 18th in 34 tries. Daryl Morey’s Gadarene instinct
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The NBA isn’t really an NBA right now. It isn’t the fault of the replacement players — Wes Iwundu is still better than anything else on television — only the fault of everyone you went to high school with for declining life-saving vaccinations. Thanks a lot, Jeremy Beauchamp, class of
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One Wanny of a week0:00/2001× (Never Too Much podcast: protocol prattle, wiry VOX tones, click ‘Listen in podcast app’ to get ‘em sent to your telephone.) Remember when Steve Nash came into Brooklyn, acknowledged his privilege, talked up the culture under Tsai and Marks, but also showed up
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Neil Olshey was not the guy who won with the Clippers, nobody’s ever won with the Clippers, yet we treated Olshey like he done, done it. The second round isn’t even second place, and for too many years we fêted Olshey as if he’d turned the corner
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The Pacers filled the team with final pieces: Domantas Sabonis, Malcolm Brogdon, Myles Turner, T.J. Warren, Caris LeVert, especially Chris Duarte. Killer fourth guys, maybe thirds, nobody that fills seats. This year’s model is cursed with rough “luck” in the clutch and an injury count bleaker than most,
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The concept is silly/awesome. Every current NBA team has a hole to fill, I find a player from their past who could improve things in spite of the setbacks inherent in temporal paradox. We don’t allow All-Stars in the time machine, either. THE CONTENDERS GOLDEN STATE The Warriors
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Plus five other timeline adjustments: McDyess, Iverson, Pippen, Marbury