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Tweet of the Night: Mateen Cleaves

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J. Crawford can put that rock in the basket. #Clippers I am going to say it right now. 6th man of the year. #NBAonTNT
November 9, 2012 12:48 am via Twitter for iPhoneReplyRetweetFavorite
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Is it too early to start talking about potential award winners in only the second week of the NBA season? Probably. That won’t stop us from doing so anyway, because it’s always fun to get your predictions in after seeing a small dose of what’s to come. That’s what former ex-NBA player Mateen Cleaves did on Thursday night after watching the performance of a white-hot Jamal Crawford, who stuck it to his former team – the Portland Trail Blazers – by scoring

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Sheridan: NBA’s best-kept secret: Kevin Martin’s success

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// We can now safely say that James Harden has come back down to earth, missing two-thirds of his shots in each of the Houston Rockets’ last two games. He still is the only player in the NBA averaging more than 30 points (30.3), and he is shooting just a shade under 50 percent (.494) — although his 3-point accuracy is a mere 28 percent. He was certainly the buzz player over the first couple days of the season, even earning

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SH Blog: Looking at the Harden trade one week later

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The James Harden trade is a week old now, and while the book is obviously not yet written on what it’ll mean for everyone involved, we have a bit of a clearer picture than we did last Sunday. Harden has looked like a true superstar in Houston, dropping 82 points over his first two games, including a career-high 45. The outlook for the Thunder is a little more murky, but they haven’t shown a disastrous dropoff so far. We’ve got several

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Sanford: Harden now part of foundation of rebuilding Rockets

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Fans of the Thunder, Rockets and the NBA were stunned with Saturday night’s news that James Harden was traded to Houston for Kevin Martin, Jeremy Lamb and draft picks. Among those stunned was Harden. “It happened pretty fast,” Harden said. “I was at dinner and (Oklahoma City general manager) Sam Presti called me and said I was traded to the Rockets and I was kind of in shock.” It extended to Kevin Durant, who took to Twitter with a simple, “Wow.” During Monday’s news

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SH Blog: Harden was devastated and stunned after trade, Stoudemire to miss at least six weeks

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It has been a couple of days now since the Thunder traded away a big part of their future in James Harden, but that hardly stopped anyone from still buzzing about it all. Who won the trade? Did the Thunder give up on their chance to contend after making it to the Finals last season over money? What does it mean for the Rockets, who suddenly look a whole lot more interesting? Our columnist Chris Bernucca was far from thrilled with the

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Who did best in the James Harden trade? Kyrie Irving for MVP?

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Who do you think won the James Harden trade? We have two widely varying opinions today in new items posted on the site — the first, by Chris Bernucca, skewering the Thunder for breaking up a key member of a potential championship threesome; the other an examination by Jeremy Bauman of how Kevin Martin’s game might be successfully worked into the Thunder’s offensive schemes. Both are very good articles, and they exemplify how hard it is to make a full judgement on

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Bernucca: Forget the championship, Thunder want a “sustainable team”

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When the Oklahoma City Thunder traded James Harden on Saturday night, they revealed to everyone that they are a team far more concerned with the bottom line than the top of the heap. Probably a bit ahead of schedule, the Thunder reached the NBA Finals last season. As we have said before, they were a questionable foul call away from opening a 2-0 lead on the mighty Miami Heat that would have cultivated the doubt and derision that has swirled around

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SH Blog: Why did Harden-to-Houston happen, and what does it mean?

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By now you’ve probably heard that the Thunder dealt last season’s NBA Sixth Man of the Year, James Harden, to the Rockets for three draft picks, rookie Jeremy Lamb, and guard Kevin Martin. It’s a bold move for rebuilding Houston, now banking on Harden becoming a franchise cornerstone, and a bit of a questionable one for the Thunder, who will still battle for a title this season, but will find that more difficult without Harden. The move comes after the Thunder

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