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NBA Power 16 – Week 3 – Crazy for Brandon Jennings

1. ATLANTA HAWKS (7), 8-2 – After defeating the Celtics on the road, the Hawks take over the top spot this week.  They have a difficult slate of games this week, however, as they face the Blazers, Heat, and Rockets.  Fortunately for them, they’re all home games.

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NBA Power 16 – Week 2

1. PHOENIX SUNS (9), 6-1 – Despite getting smoked by the Magic in Orlando, the Suns made up for it by beating the Celtics on the road.  Steve Nash is playing like an MVP and is shooting better from 3-point land than 2-point distance.  Are the Suns for real?  This week will be a good [...]

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SHAQ JOINS KING JAMES IN CLEVELAND

Wow.  After months of speculation that Shaquille O’Neal would be headed to Cleveland, it’s now finally official.  The Diesel, the Big Aristotle, the big Shaqtus, is actually joining LeBron James and his kingdom.  Phoenix got Ben Wallace and Sasha Pavlovic back in return (so pretty much nobody).  You know, a few years back it seemed [...]

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Kobe Will Baptize Dwight and the Magic Yet Again

Let me start off by saying that I’m surprised at myself as to how accurate my predictions and analysis in my previous article previewing the Western Conference Finals were. I should be out in some third world country, reading palms for a living. If you read it, you’ll know what I’m talking about. If you [...]

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All Hail the Orlando Magic

Including King James.  They proved all their doubters (including me) wrong by EASILY dispensing the Cleveland Cavaliers.  They outplayed the Cavs in every way imaginable and you could make a case they could’ve won six straight.  Even with the refs seemingly on the side of the MVP and his mates, the Magic came back from [...]

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The West Will Be Won by the Lakers

NBA fans have been blessed this season to have, in my opinion, the League’s four best teams left standing in the playoffs.  David Stern and company must be ecstatic given the amount of interest in this year’s playoffs demonstrated by the ratings spike in the earlier rounds, specifically the Celtics-Bulls series as well as the [...]

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