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In case you missed it, the Bulls and Heat faced off in the Orlando Summer League today (Box Score).  The Heat won easily, 94-70.  Beasley had an impressive 28 and 9 in 23 minutes while Rose had...

Until the Gasol trade, it was widely agreed on this site that the Hornets and Jazz were the two Western Conference teams we'd be butting heads with the most down the road, with the OKC Sonics...

Two of the most high profile basketball sabermetric stats are David Berri's win scores and John Hollingers PER.  They have many common features, but some important differences as well.  Chief...

Hey guys. It's been a while since my last "fanpost."  I wanted to go through the lottery teams and look and which teams would be really scary if they got Beasley or Rose.  I'm thinking in terms...

They defeated Austin in game 3 of the best of 3 series to take the crown. http://www.nba.com/dleague/games/20080425/AUSIDA/boxscore.html Contributions from McBob (10 pts, 5 rebs, 1 ast, 1 blk in...

This is a pretty fun playoff fantasy game on NBA.com.  You pick 1 player everyday and your score for the day is pts+asts+rebs.  Once you pick someone, you can't use him again the rest of the...

Three notable Western Conference games happened today.First, the Warriors roared back from 17 down in Phoenix to grab an 11 pt lead (much of the rally happening with Baron Davis on the bench),...

While this is the only SBN site where I'm a regular poster/full fledged community member, I've posted and lurked to varying degrees at a number of other sites, such as Golden State of Mind, Sactown...

http://mikebarrettsblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/blazers-host-wiz.htmlBarrett discusses Aldridge- he initially thought Aldridge wouldn't play, but LMA participated in shootaround and is likely to give...

On March 4, I wrote this diary:http://blazersedge.com/story/2008/3/5/11829/11062Essentially, I argued that Aldridge was having a solid Sophomore season but one I still classified as disappointing-...

is overrated.Make that VERY overrated.With all the talk about how this team underachieved and how "nobody does less than more" than Ernie Kent, I think people are still getting caught up on the...

Holy Guacamole, get a load of this boxscore:http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/boxscore?gid=2008031607Nice defense, Sonics.------------------ Cornell Big Red Oregon Ducks Portland State VikingsCornell Big...

Don't look now but Mo's Sixers have won 7 of 8 and 9 of 11 after defeating San Antonio today.  He's got them in playoff position ahead of some more talented teams (Atlanta, Chicago, New Jersey and...

Houston won its 18th straight, this one yet another victory over a quality opponent, as they dispatched New Orleans 106-96.Golden State continued its solid play as they knocked off Orlando, and...

I want to discuss LaMarcus Aldridge.  At the beginning of the year, I thought he would be our leading scorer and best player this season.  I was fully on board with the thought that he'd be...

Sorry about this, but I couldn't resist putting in a shameless plug for my alma mater, Cornell, which on Saturday clinched its first NCAA tournament bid since 1988.As the first team to lock up a...

I want to touch on something that I am pretty sure is an issue, but I'm not sure how big a problem it is for the Blazers.Our guys are slow.Not slow as in Shaq-like but we only have two players who...

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3244102Nets would get Harris, Stackhouse, Diop and Devean George.This is a terrible trade for the Mavs if you ask me.  Harris is arguably better than...

Joe Lunardi has Oregon as his last team out of the tournament.  Because of the strength of the conference, Oregon is very much still in the mix.Dave posted that he thinks Oregon needs 6 more wins...

per Jason Quick.http://blog.oregonlive.com/behindblazersbeat/2008/02/jones_left_out_of_threepoint_s.html#moreThe participants will be defending champ Jason Kapono, Rip Hamilton, Steve Nash, Daniel...

... of 10th place.The Blazers are now a full game and a half out of the playoffs and just 4.5 games ahead of surging Sacramento.It was a nice run and they've kept us interested for a long time, but...

The Knicks are a better team without Eddy Curry David Lee, Renaldo Balkman and Nate Robinson play their butts off. Either Balkman or Lee could really help the Blazers. When James Jones isn't...