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The First Annual Writing the Pine NBA Draft Awards!

Welcome to the First Annual Writing the Pine NBA Draft Awards.  We’ll be giving out a few awards today to both teams and individual players.  I know the draft was a few days ago but I couldn’t watch it as it unfolded because I was playing in a friend’s work basketball league so I had [...]

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NBA DRAFT SPECTACULAR – Who Every Team SHOULD Take

Seth Wenig/AP The NBA Draft is this Thursday and there are numerous mock drafts out there speculating on who every team will take.  Well, I’m gonna take a little different spin on it and decide who every team should draft.  It’s basically if I was GM for every team, who I would take or what I’d [...]

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Good Luck Blake Griffin, You’ll Need It

Wade Barker/AP Photo Please Mike Dunleavy, don’t screw up his career. Blake Griffin, We here at Writing the Pine send you our sincerest condolences. Your career was destined for greatness. Now, since you’ll be with the Clippers, we’re not so sure. Personally, I think you are a better version of Amare Stoudemire. But it [...]

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