Yao's injury could be an opportunity


by Richard Justice
Do you know what small, fast and scrappy gets you in the NBA? It gets you the team that beat the Lakers twice in the playoffs, but was also blown off the floor twice. Fasten your seat belts. Our wild ride is about to begin.
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Raising Arizona??
by Jerald LeVon Hoover, BASN Staff Reporter -- Jun 30, 2009 - 9:57:00 PM
New York picked eighth overall and took Arizona big man, Jordan Hill, the 6-foot-10 thoroughbred with a jump shot and shot blocking ability. He has a skill that was sorely lacking with the Knicks last season.

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NBA Draft Lottery Forecast (Part 2)
by Eric G. Satterwhite, BASN Contributor -- Jun 24, 2009 - 9:59:00 PM
Yesterday, we took a look at the first seven picks of the 2009 NBA Draft. Today, we'll dissect the remaining seven picks (eight through 14) of the lottery teams.

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NBA Draft Lottery Forecast (Part 1)
by Eric G. Satterwhite, BASN Contributor -- Jun 23, 2009 - 9:56:00 PM
By NBA rules, no team can contribute more than $550,000 (55% of a milly) towards buying any player out of his current contract. That means every peso of Rubio’s potential NBA contract would have to go towards his Spanish basketball club for the buyout.

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NBA Draft Preview: New York Knicks
by Jerald LeVon Hoover, BASN Staff Reporter -- Jun 21, 2009 - 9:56:00 PM
One does his work on the inside and the other has sonar range from the outside. One is in college and has his daddy’s NBA genes and seems to love basketball. The other owns several pair of loose fitting blue jeans and basketball seems to be merely, ‘something to do’ to pass time away.

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A Champion Again
by Dr. Boyce Watkins -- Jun 18, 2009 - 9:56:00 PM
Kobe Bryant started his career with the L.A. Lakers as a tremendous athlete with a valuable brand. His stock rose like an elevator, as Madison Avenue loved him as much as Laker fans. Then life took a strange twist.

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