Note the following two-rule formula for picking NBA playoffs series winners:
1. If the Spurs or Pistons are involved, pick them.
2. Otherwise, go with the higher seed.
For this past few years, if you’ve used this formula, you’ve been pretty successful. Not completely accurate, but no doubt more successful than your friends who based their picks on [...]

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An excellent list of NBA player nicknames.

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The Portland Trail Blazers were more than a little busy tonight: they picked up Greg Oden, Rudy Fernandez, Petteri Koponen, Josh McRoberts, Taurean Green, Demetris Nichols, James Jones, Channing Frye and Steve Francis through a series of draft and trade moves. They lost Zach Randolph, Fred Jones and Dan Dickau.
Some observations:

Portland now boasts a roster [...]

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So, the Portland Trail Blazers won the NBA draft lottery. Now that’s some good news. They lost big time last year (managing to pick some strong rookies anyhow), but now they’re likely to pick one of the guys on the right. I’m guessing they’ll go with Kevin Durant.
Go Blazers!
EDIT: Hmm… the rumor mill says they’ll [...]

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I never thought I’d say it: the Portland Trail Blazers are 1-0. That’s right, they beat Seattle (the other team that journalists picked to be at the bottom of the Western Conference this season) by four points.
Do you know what this means? IF THEY KEEP PLAYING AT THIS RATE, THEY’LL GO 82-0 AND SWEEP THE [...]

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