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It is said that longevity has its place – and it was well placed on Coach Wooden’s life who lived to be 99. It was always a curious thing to see all these sport reporters salivating and almost genuflecting when given an audience with the great Coach Wooden. And in a world now of...
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Don’t call it a comeback. The Orlando Magic, who won the last two games to create a competitive series in the Eastern Conference Finals, were pummeled by the Boston Celtics in a convincing 96-84 margin Friday night. The Celtics, who won the series 4-2, move on to the NBA Finals, where they’ll await their...
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Maybe the Orlando Magic are inspired by the Phoenix Suns. One day after the Suns tied up their conference series with the Los Angeles Lakers, the Magic denied the Celtics another opportunity to advance to the NBA Finals with a 113-92 victory in Orlando. The win slices the Celtics’ series lead to 3-2 and...
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While the reporters who cover the NBA have been openly pondering the inevitable Lakers/Celtics finals—a rematch of the 2008 NBA Finals, won by the Celtics in six games—the team from Phoenix has decided that it might not be so inevitable after all. The Suns (or Los Suns, depending on when they wear their alternate...
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The basketball pundits have been woefully wrong in their many predictions; I wonder how many sports gamblers lost arms and legs depending on what amounted to predictions made by Miss Cleo. One of the most glaring predictions was about the Boston Celtics… being left out of the discussion, as to which teams would compete...
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There are times when Charles Barkley, the ex basketball player who now is the commentator for TNT, sounds like a sage and there are times when he sounds like he is the village idiot. The latter seems appropriate when Barkley recently said that Kobe Bryant was old. Perhaps, Barkley said this to motivate Kobe...
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Everywhere one looked, he or she heard about the poor playing of LeBron James against the Boston Celtics during the eastern semi finals. The subsequent beatings that LeBron James continue to take on the sport pages and elsewhere for losing to the Boston Celtics are palpable; even now I could hear that one particular...
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