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Remember when we spent the better part of a decade crediting Shaquille O’Neal with keeping his cool while opponents hacked with abandon, well yeah. LeBron James was done with the NBA’s regular season when he moved to Los Angeles, it’s the time change, games at 10:30
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Rights to the gym0:00/2001× (Never Too Much podcast: Beatles, this podcast is only about the Beatles, from Liverpool. Click ‘Listen in podcast app’ to subscribe!) If the Bulls switch arena naming rights, I’ll still call it ‘UC.’ And you’re fine to keep using the other brand
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Charlotte 106, Golden State 102 Clingy game, 25 lead changes, 14 ties, neither side was able to put the other at arm’s length. Seven was the largest advantage. Golden State would not hit in the fourth quarter, 6-22 and ohfer nine on threes in spite of myriad opportunities to
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Indiana 111, Utah 100 Impressive win for the Pacers. Don’t care. Get to the fight: Turner and Gobert talked all evening, Turner was hot from outside yet unable to keep Rudy from his occasional Gobert lobber-ooo. And, yeah, Rudy Gobert pulling Turner down by his shorts is super lame.
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BtB: NBA is suspended0:00/2001× (Never Too Much podcast: why I’m cool with everything.) Denver 113, Miami 96 Denver smacked the Heat around for three quarters and then there was the fight. Miami was angry because Denver smacked first.
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Robert Sarver is so replaceable0:00/2001× (Never Too Much podcast: Eastern Conference comes back just in time for Big Saturday.) So, Adam Silver, do you enjoy the fires? Do you think they’re going away? They’re not all gonna be Sterling. They’re not all gonna be too
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You know how these work, right? HOT: MIAMI D Pretty good. NOT: LAKER D Pretty bad. Hots and nots, you gots it. HOT: THE NATION’S CAPITOL Things are moving in D.C., papers are passing and hands are raising and those busy-bee-rights in the 117th Congress aren’t the
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When Jo Night goes nowhere0:00/2001× (Never Too Much podcast: learning to love the Eastern Conference finalists, what’s ahead for yer Bulls, click ‘Listen in podcast app’ to subscribe!) If you tuned into the last play of the game on Thursday, what you saw was typical. Talented Bulls,
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James Harden misses that touch0:00/2001× (Never Too Much podcast: 2000-01 NBA League Pass, Monday’s games, soothing rain, occasional guitar.) Whingeing over “points of emphasis” in the NBA’s first weeks is an annual tradition. One year the emphasis was on upsetting Rasheed Wallace and it went wonderfully.
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NBA counts to 75, inaccurately0:00/2001× (Never Too Much podcast: why no previews, Daryl Morey posts through it, Lakers do it their way, Kelly looks at old tapes, click ‘Listen in podcast app’ to subscribe!) After a voting tie, the NBA settled on 76 players in its top 75
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Three things 2021-22 can't worry about0:00/2001× (Never Too Much podcast: coaches in track suits, Kyrie’s new friends, Sarver trash, Rocktober, click ‘Listen in podcast app’ to subscribe in time for the division programs!) There are more three-pointers now, and there are only going to be