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NBA All-Decade Team

Posted: 28th December 2009 by Alex Lubetkin in NBA
As the decade comes to a close, I've been bombarded left and right by numerous media outlets with various "best of the decade" lists. One more wouldn't hurt anyone. As the name suggests, the following is my "All Decade" squad. I was originally going to pick ten players - five starters, five backups - but the work proved to be much more time consuming than I had anticipated. As such, ...

Five Trades the Cleveland Cavaliers Should Consider

Posted: 27th December 2009 by Alex Lubetkin in NBA
Like anybody reading this, I consider my knowledge of basketball to be better than it actually is. I think of trade scenarios all the time, constantly asking myself what it would take to pry talented veterans off of other teams. Years of running successful teams in the NBA 2K series will do that to a guy. While I think that the Cleveland Cavaliers have a great team this year, they ...

Cavaliers-Lakers: Christmas in Cleveland? What We Can Learn

Posted: 26th December 2009 by Alex Lubetkin in NBA
Man. That escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out of hand fast. With about five minutes left to go in the fourth quarter, Lakers fans had seen enough. Their team was being bullied in every sense of the word, looking nothing like a defending NBA champion. The always-classy fans of L.A., armed with nothing more than promotional foam fingers and a sense of pride, expressed their anger by tossing ...