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All-Star voting just began, and it’s already over

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Technically, fan balloting for the All-Star Game ends Jan. 31, and TNT plans to announce the starters on Feb. 2. In reality, fan balloting already is over, and the starters already have been announced. While Twitter was all atwitter Thursday, with everybody and their fathers sending snippets of the first returns released by the NBA, we didn’t see anyone point out the yawning margins between the potential starters and also-rans. To unseat the current leaders at each position, it would take a “vote

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Kravitz Fantasy Spin: January 13

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Highlight Performances: Dwight Howard, ORL – For those in leagues with Free Throws Made, let’s all give thanks to Warriors coach Mark Jackson for hacking D12 so much that Howard set an NBA record with 39 free throws, of which he hit 21. Howard shot 12-of-21 from the field, totaling 45 points, and also had 23 rebounds, 4 steals, and 2 blocks. That is one huge fantasy line! Given the Magic only had two games on their schedule this week, I

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Howard sets FT record; Horford, Melo hurt

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// Thursday was a painful day in the NBA. Painful for the fans, who had slim pickings from the five-game slate of snoozers and blowouts. Painful for a handful of teams who lost key players to injury. And painful for the purists, who watched Dwight Howard historically distort the sport. Repeatedly sent to the line through intentional fouling, Howard broke Wilt Chamberlain’s 50-year-old record for free throws in a game, attempting 39 and sinking 21 as the Orlando Magic edged the Golden

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Heisler: What if Lakers’ next guy isn’t Dwight or DWill but n-n-n-o-b-o-d-y?

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Jerry Buss is playing a different brand of poker with the Lakers

LOS ANGELES – I just wrote a piece for LakersNation announcing the Lakes’ should get Deron Williams, rather than Dwight Howard. (For fans outside Lakerdom, gleeful at the prospect of decrepitude finishing off the Lakes, LakersNation is not a suicide prevention hotline, but a fan site.) Unfortunately, there’s another scenario which I went kind of light on, as in, forgot to account for: What if the Lakers’ guy is

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Sheridan on Howard, Clippers, Durant

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// If I was a betting man (and I will be later this week in Las Vegas), I would bet that 85 year old Orlando Magic owner Rich DeVos elects NOT to trade Dwight Howard. To put it delicately, you’re only 85 once. More on that in the video; plus a report on test week for the Clippers and Kevin Durant’s plunge to 4th in the scoring race.

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Dwight Howard still wants to be traded

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In case you missed it over the weekend, Dwight Howard still wants to be traded, his agent still has permission to talk to only three teams — the Lakers, Nets and Mavericks — and his current team is still better than two-thirds of the NBA. Last night, despite one of the most unproductive games of Howard’s career (he had 0 points and 0 rebounds at halftime), the Magic won in Sacramento to improve to 6-3. The 104-97 victory came on the

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Fantasy Spin: Sunday Jan. 8th

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Highlight Performances: Wesley Matthews, POR– After being undrafted out of Marquette, Matthews has come on strong this year, averaging over 15 points a game and 32 minutes per. Although many expected newly acquired free agent Jamal Crawford to steal playing time, Matthews has continued to be a very solid scorer and defender for the impressive Portland Trailblazers. Sunday Night was no different, as he scored 24 points, a steal, and 3 assists. Guards that can post 15+ points a game on

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Silva: Howard-to-Chicago rumors are senseless

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CHICAGO — Fresh off last night’s 14-point beatdown of the Orlando Magic — on the road, no less — can someone please tell me why the Chicago Bulls should jeopardize everything they have going right now by trying to trade for center Dwight Howard? Lest we forget, the Bulls won a league-best 62 games last season, had the youngest MVP in league history, saw their first-year head coach win Coach of the Year, were the league’s top defensive team and went

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