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As his Dallas Mavericks teammates celebrated a dramatic, 90-85 win (RECAP | BOX) over the Celtics inside a dimly lit visitors locker room on Wednesday night, Lamar Odom dressed quietly in the corner. It has been a difficult year for Odom, from the ugly end of the '10-'11 season with the Lakers, to the murder of his 24-year old cousin in July, to the death of a 15-year old pedestrian that was caused when a motorcycle collided with an SUV Odom was a passenger in, to his shocking trade to Dallas, where Odom has struggled, averaging 6.7 points (on...
Jerry Colangelo is willing to take a flier on Lamar Odom. It makes us wonder whether the Suns ought to consider doing the same thing. Odom was a member of the USA Basketball 2010 World Championship team that won a gold medal in... more »
And so it ended, ended predictably you can certainly say, but also ended in the very worst kind of way. A sweep. A bleeping sweep. From world champs to first-round chumps, that's how the world championship run for the Dallas... more »
In none of the four major North American sports is it easier to repeat as champion than in the NBA. Over the past 25 years, in both hockey and baseball, there have been just three repeat champions. In the NFL, there have been... more »
During the regular season, the 76ers won only eight games in which they both outrebounded and made more free throws than the opposition. Those are the building blocks of professional basketball, but they are not what the Sixers... more »
Shaquille O'Neal, still sweating following a Heat practice one day, had just made a point to reporters, but he wanted to make sure everyone knew he really meant what he said. So he accentuated his final sentence by saying,... more »
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