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he NBA regular season is really ending on a high note, isn’t it?
Witness the marquee game of the night Saturday. Well, not so much the marquee game as the one most representative of what’s happening in the league in the final week of the lockout-compressed regular season. In Miami, the Heat, still with an outside chance of getting home-court advantage in the Eastern Conference playoffs, hosted the Wizards, still with a chance of winning the rights to Anthony Davis in the lottery.
LeBron James and Chris Bosh sat because, as star players across the NBA have been doing for a month, they needed the rest, playoff position be damned. Dwyane Wade dislocated a finger early, sat out the rest of the game and probably will miss a handful more -- also a common...
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Things were going entirely too smoothly for the Miami Heat. Based on what happened last season — early mutiny rumors, the Crying Game, the cough-mocking of Dirk Nowitzki, the agony of LeBron James — it was just a question... more »
mid the buzz that was good to hear on a Wednesday night, the Bucks were in the game to end all games - at least for the last playoff spot in the East, at least for this week - for a good reason. They have a roster suited for no... more »
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