The NBA league pass is awesome, but nothing beats a good TNT double-header.
Tonight, we get a great TNT double-header.
The night starts off with Cleveland at Miami. I’ve written this before, but LeBron vs. Wade is the best head-to-head matchup to watch in the NBA right now. These guys always bring out the best in each other.
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(cue the Biggie...) I'm going out of town for the long holiday weekend, so all of you out there (if there are any of you) are going to have to survive for a few days without my wonderful and insightful analysis about all things basketball for a few days. (I'll pause for a moment to let you scream in anguish and control your sobbing...) But fear not, I will be back with even more opinions and prognostications about the realm of professional sports on Tuesday, and by then I should have plenty to write about.
Posted by David Trageser | No comments yet
Rajon Rondo should bake a nice cake with the words "thank you for trading Chauncey Billups" written in icing on the top and send it to Detroit Pistons GM Joe Dumars. It wouldn't hurt if all of the Celtics helped (even Scalabrine), but Rondo in particular should take the lead on this one. Stop scratching your heads and looking confused and don't ask why, you should know very well by now that some rambling, tangential diatribe of an explanation is forthcoming...
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Just like Wade, James uses the free-throw line as a large part of his offensive output. He uses his big body and his quick first step to get in the lane and draw fouls. There are many times throughout a game that James is clearly driving to the hoop with no intention of making the shot; he is just trying to get fouled. As a result, James gets fouled a lot, but he only shoots .728 from the free-throw line in his career. That is hardly worth all the trouble he goes through to get on the line. Wade by comparison shoots .774 from the line; not a great number either, but better than King James.
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Normally, I am not one to be easily swayed by conspiracy theories, but after delving into Eliot Asinof's Eight Men Out, I am convinced that anything is possible (in a much more troubling and somber manner than KG's interpretation of the phrase after winning the title) in the world of sports and the NBA could easily be fixing games and forcing action. In case you didn't know,Asinof's book chronicles the fixing of the 1919 World Series, in which several of the Chicago White Sox' best players conspired with notorious gamblers and bettors to intentionally lose the World Series to the less talented Cincinnati Reds.
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