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Morning News Roundup

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Here are this morning’s top NBA news stories: “Allen Iverson won’t sign with Maccabi Haifa for games in NBA,” from Sportando “Extending Manu Ginobli,” by Yannis Koutroupis from HoopsWorld “NY Knicks’ Kurt Thomas not thinking retirement as veteran enters season still feeling young,” by Frank Isola from the New York Daily News “Dwightmare seems very far away as Howard reboots with lakers,” by Ken Berger from CBSSports.com “Mavericks’ Dirk Nowitzki on new NBA flopping rules: ‘A bunch of crap,'” by Eddie Sefko from Dallas Morning News “Rose playing recruiter,” by Joe

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Fantasy Spin: October 5, 2012

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The Fantasy Spin is delighted to be partnered with FanDuel this season. Daily fantasy games are challenging, exciting and can be lucrative. Compared to 20 years of Roto and a dozen or more Head-to-Head seasons, I’m a novice at this. The FanDuel hoops game is beautifully simple: pick nine players — 2PG, 2 SG, 2 SF, 2 PF, 1 C — and whoever scores the most points wins. The scoring system is also uncomplicated: 3-pt FG = 3pts; 2-pt FG = 2pts; FT =

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Hamilton: For Carmelo Anthony’s Knicks, Time Is Up

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NEW YORK — The more things change is the more they stay the same. And as we count down toward the tip-off of the 2012-2013 season, New York Knicks fans are almost exactly where they were just prior to last season’s commencement. Many questions, few answers. Tick-tock. The clock is ticking. Carmelo Anthony, your time is almost up. An unfair Anthony critic, I am not. So while I remind you of the torch job I did on ‘Melo after he was outclassed by LeBron

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Tweet of the Night: Erin Andrews

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Dwight, you play in LA now..you will be criticized by everyone. get used to it..
October 5, 2012 1:03 am via EchofonReplyRetweetFavorite
@ErinAndrews
Erin Andrews
Tweet of the Night went to Erin Andrews, who had a stern message for Dwight Howard. Presumably, she was responding to Howard finally lashing back at Shaquille O’Neal for continually ridiculing and trying to undermine him at every chance he gets. Earlier this week, O’Neal went over the top with his opinion of Howard by stating that, given the choice, he would choose Brook Lopez over Howard. While Andrews has a point in saying Howard will be scrutinized for everything

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SH Blog: NBA players react to new anti-flop rule, Barkley says LeBron could be better than Jordan

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One day after the NBA implemented a new anti-flop rule to penalize players with fines for flopping, there were plenty of reactions around the league, from happy campers to those that weren’t quite sure if it was the best of ideas. See what was said around the league about the change along with other news around the league on Thursday: Blake Griffin thinks the flopping rule is a great way for the league to make money on, from Marc J. Spears

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Who is the NBA’s biggest flopper?

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Cast your vote, and the percentage results will be displayed after your ballot is cast. Thanks for taking part, and feel free to vote in our other three open polls (the results of those have been quite interesting): How many games will the Lakers win? How many games will the Heat win? Who will win more games, Lakers or Heat?

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Morning News Roundup

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Here are this morning’s top NBA news stories: “Dwight Howard fitting in well with Kobe Bryant, new look Lakers,” by Sam Amick from SI.com “Knicks still targeting Josh Howard,” by Jared Zwerling from  ESPN.com “LaMarcus Aldridge, free agent to be in 2015, is ‘fine with’ Portland Trail Blazers’ Direction,” by Ben Golliver from the Blazers Edge “Belinelli envisions long term Bulls backcourt partnership with Rose,” by Shams Charania from RealGM “Manu shrugs off flopping edict,” by Jeff McDonald from the San Antonio Express-News “Griffin calls flop rule a way for the

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Fantasy Spin: October 4, 2012

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Yesterday, Kent posted the results of our Elimination Roto Draft (and here is part II), a 20-team league with a wonderful quirk that Jeff, Kent and I are all members of. This is my first year in Elimination Roto for basketball but I’ve participated in a similar baseball league. The format imposes a couple of unusual constraints on drafting, but generally the lessons we can draw from this draft are similar to those for normal roto drafts. I wanted to draw three

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