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-Chris Dudley for Governor ! So what if he doesn't have anything to say that doesn't come directly from the standard issue GOP playbook . Follow him on twitter here . Notice I didn't make any free throw jokes? Let that be a lesson to all of you blogger-types. - Another day, another Blazers assistant coach reportedly in the running for the head coach job somewhere else . - Matt Scheelar, of Bust a ...

Phoenix Suns' forward Jared Dudley said he would view the video from the Suns' Game One loss to the Los Angeles Lakers, and see if Lamar Odom and Ron Artest could repeat their performances. Amare Stoudemire said Odom's Game One performance was "lucky," and went a step further to say Pau Gasol was someone he dominated until Gasol was traded to Los Angeles, and teamed with Andrew Bynum. I'm sure Kobe Bryant ...

The 2010 NBA free agency crop has been talked about for a long while now. One of the biggest names of the group besides LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Joe Johnson is Amare Stoudemire, and the team that signs Stoudemire will overpay. For a player who possesses tremendous athleticism his lack of rebounding and lack of defensive ability is disconcerting. Another issue with Stoudemire is the fact that he's limited offensively. It's ...

Kobe Bryant is the single most polarizing NBA player of this generation. He is both globally loved and loathed.  Laker fans jump to his defense when they hear any disparaging word, while his detractors relish in every single one of his failures.  Bryant is either a fierce warrior who drives his team to victory or a selfish dictator who saps the confidence from his teammates. It just depends who you ask. He is ...

Pau Gasol isn't a treat for the eyes.    Even on the court, there's something strikingly off in the way Gasol trots out of rhythm from one end of the floor to the other. When he's running in transition, you'd swear the Spaniard was fighting through two ankle weights planted inside each sneaker. Pau lacks the forceful personality and handsome features that made Magic Johnson such an icon in Los Angeles. What Johnson didn't have, though, was Gasol's wonderful post ...

Despite being down 2-0 to Boston in their Eastern Conference Final series, the Orlando Magic are still very much alive. Game two was a close one and a solid improvement from the poor play of game one. One thing is for sure, the Magic aren't going to go down without a fight. They have the skill, they have the determination, and they have the depth to pull off ...

Last week I posted a Facebook status that read: "As good as the Shaq-Kobe duo was, Kobe-Pau is better." Within minutes I received a barrage of critical comments, including: "That's just outrageously false." "You're an idiot." "[That is] almost as retarded of a statement as 'the Suns have a chance against the Lakers'." And my personal favorite: "You are worse than the 'Fisher' 'Lies' girls." With those sort of responses, you would think I said something ...

With summertime approaching, there are always a great deal of rumors floating around the wonderful world of the NBA in what will happen in the soon-to-be offseason. This kind of thing is generally unavoidable, especially with such a deep and talented group of free agents starting to think about where they want to play for the next few seasons of their respective careers. It is also unavoidable that some of these ...

In the summer of big free agent possibilities, it is often forgotten that not just teams with salary cap space can be contenders for the best free agents available. Free agents in the midst of their NBA careers who can command maximum contracts have little reason to join another team’s decimated roster and hope management can build a contender around them. Sorry, New Jersey and New York, but one of the big ...

The Boston Celtics opened a 2-0 series lead over the Orlando Magic in the Eastern Conference Finals last night, yet what made headlines after the game was not the game itself but Paul Pierce's Twitter account. Hours after the game, a post went up on Pierce's account that not only gave his opinion on the status of the series, but made Pierce look like a sore winner. Pierce and his ...