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3 ideas for non-competition NBA quarantine content
2K and H.O.R.S.E. try to replace competition with lesser competition. The league should look at the content desert from a different angle.
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The awkward geopolitics of the world's first (and only?) Olympic basketball video game
Remembering when the IOC and EA Sports disagreed about putting Yugoslavia in the Olympics.
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Remembering the Blazers' decade-old almost dynasty
With a young core and real stars, Portland should have had something. Instead, they never won a playoff series.
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The players' union holds the NBA's next few years in its hands
This cannot be a redux of 2016 for the good of the membership and the sport.
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Basketball distraction is coming
We need more than that, though.
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Introducing the NBA Wall of Fame
There has long been talk about building an NBA-specific Hall of Fame. What about something a little different?
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Thinking about J.J. Barea
We don't know whether the NBA will finish this season, or who is going to retire now. Just another little sadness heaped on top of the mass tragedy.
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Rockets owner's 'great opportunity' is pain for the working class
Tilman Fertitta laid off 40,000 hotel, casino and restaurant workers to keep the liquidity so he can buy back debt created so he could buy the Rockets. That doesn't seem very cool.
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All's well that ends Joel
An NBA superstar spent $500,000 to shame his billionaire scoundrel bosses into paying their employees' full salaries.
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Mistrust the Process
The billionaire owners of the Philadelphia 76ers cut employees' pay not two weeks into the NBA shutdown.
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What postponing the Tokyo Olympics means for the NBA
Athletes and national Olympic organizations are rightly pushing for the Tokyo Olympics to be postponed. It would have major implications on multiple NBA levels.
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What hole does sports fill in our lives?
On our thirst for competition, our awe of craft and the deep tapestry of stories basketball provides us.