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It Turns Out The Vintage Warriors Are Still Pretty Good At Basketball

sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, assistant sports editor): The NBA conference finals are just three games old, but we’ve already seen two of the most entertaining games of the entire playoffs. After Golden State easily dispatched Portland in Game 1 in the West, Milwaukee needed a furious comeback to take down Toronto in the East’s first game. […]

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The Bucks’ Game 1 Win May Come To Haunt Toronto

MILWAUKEE — The Bucks have dropped only one contest all postseason, and for much of Wednesday, Milwaukee was falling victim to the same issues that doomed them in that defeat. The Raptors, just like the Celtics did in Game 1 a round earlier, were walling off the painted area with several stoppers, making life difficult […]

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2015-16 NBA Preview: Sorry, Nets Fans

We’re inaugurating our NBA player projection system, CARMELO, with 2015-16 season previews for every team in the league. Check out the teams we’ve already previewed here. Learn more about CARMELO here. On the second day of Brooklyn Nets training camp at Duke University, things got weird. The team’s owner, Mikhail Prokhorov, a 6-foot-8 billionaire from […]

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2015-16 NBA Preview: Sorry, Nets Fans

We’re inaugurating our NBA player projection system, CARMELO, with 2015-16 season previews for every team in the league. Check out the teams we’ve already previewed here. Learn more about CARMELO here. On the second day of Brooklyn Nets training camp at Duke University, things got weird. The team’s owner, Mikhail Prokhorov, a 6-foot-8 billionaire from […]

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