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Hubbard: What we learned about the NBA this summer

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Moments after the Los Angeles Lakers were ejected from the 2012 playoffs by the Oklahoma City Thunder, Kobe Bryant talked calmly with reporters. No doubt the competitive anger within Bryant was hissing and steaming, but he was suppressing it because he was confident history would repeat itself. “I’m sure we’ll figure it out,” he said of the Lakers’ second consecutive ouster in the second round of the playoffs. “We always have and I’m sure we will again.” Yes, the Lakers always figure it out. What is

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Hamilton: NBA Teams With Cap and Trade Exceptions

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As August ends and calendars are flipped to September, it dawns on you: NBA training camps will open in a few weeks. Although the Summer of 2012 will ultimately be remembered for when the Los Angeles Lakers somehow managed to acquire two of the top prizes on the market, there are still quite a few free agents that could ultimately be the difference between your favorite team making a trip to the postseason or anxiously awaiting the results of the draft

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SH Blog: Rajon Rondo wants to be greatest Celtics PG ever, Chalmers thinks Rondo is not the best PG

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If you are a Lakers fan, you are going to enjoy today’s news because there will be plenty to read about, from Kobe Bryant’s role on the new team, Dwight Howard’s injury status, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s statue, what Steve Nash does to be such a great shooter and more. Also, see what Rajon Rondo wants to remembered as when his career is over, and why Mario Chalmers doesn’t think Rondo is the best point guard in the league: How great does Rajon

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SH Blog: Oakley rips Dwight Howard; Nash and Triano back together for Team Canada

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From www.fiba.com Steve Nash does not play international basketball anymore, which is the biggest reason why Team Canada has fallen off the map competitively since in the 12 years since the 2000 Sydney Olympics, when Nash, Todd MacCulloch and Rowen Barrett, coached by Jay Triano, won their group in pool play before losing in the first game of the knockout round to France. There is a story I have heard in the years since that gives some good

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SH Blog: Dwyane Wade almost became a Bull, thinks LeBron James not yet in the class of Michael Jordan

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Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade, who has been promoting his book over the summer while resting and rehabbing his knee, took some time to talk to the media about Derrick Rose, LeBron James, Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls on Thursday. See all of his intriguing thoughts, along with some transactions and entertaining videos below: Dwyane Wade talked about how tough it was to turn down the opportunity to become a Bull back in the summer of 2010, from Ira Winderman

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Heisler: L.A. Story: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

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Having trumped up, er, written more intracity rivalry stories than I care to remember, there are three things I know. 1. They’re really no big deal. So what if the Clippers don’t like the Lakers, who don’t deign to notice the Clippers? The Clips don’t dislike the Lakes any more than the Suns or Warriors do, to say nothing of the Celtics. This isn’t high school. It’s not even USC-UCLA. This is the NBA, where only the Clips would remember if they swept the Lakers,

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Tweet of the Night: Marc J. Spears

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New Lakers center Dwight Howard just said, "I can't run right now" and didn't commit to a return date following his back injury.
August 10, 2012 7:29 pm via Twitter for BlackBerry®ReplyRetweetFavorite
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Marc J. Spears
Tweet of the Night goes to Marc J. Spears of Yahoo Sports for quoting Dwight Howard on the status of his ailing back. As you can see in the tweet above, the back issues that prevented the most dominant center to miss this past season’s playoffs is far from a thing of the past. Howard had missed a grand total of seven games in the first seven seasons of his career before missing 17 games last season, including the

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Heisler: Lakers do it again; Howard the newest version of Wilt, Kareem

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LOS ANGELES — And so, Dwight Howard winds up with the Lakers… just as we said he would! Of course, we said that in the spring of 2011, after All-Star Weekend when Dwight was asked which player here he’d most like to play with, and he answered “Kobe Bryant.” In the 18 months since, we said a bunch of other things: He was going to the Nets with Deron Williams. He was going to the Mavericks with Deron Williams. He was going to Houston. He wasn’t staying

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