More basketball!
I wasn’t planning to go this way. Though I did think, the day before the Lakers played in Miami, that the Heat would win, no problem, and considered writing that just to show my powers of analysis … but then it got too late, and the Heat led by 21 after three before winning […]

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This is hardly noticed in the particularly British (or Indian) parts of the world, but basketball probably is the second-most popular game on the planet.
I know that several sports have made that claim (from volleyball to team handball to ping-pong, etc), but hoops probably is the real No. 2. Plus, a survey conducted last March […]

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I have seen pieces of NBA games, this season, over here in the UAE, and the whole of the Lakers-Bulls game on Christmas Day.
I have seen all of the scores, however. Some former colleagues and I are in about the third decade of an NBA fantasy league (I have both LeBron and Kobe; feeling good!)  […]

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Kobe Bryant ranks third in the NBA in scoring, so far, at 26.4 points per game. But the Lakers are 4-4, and are beginning to have the feel of a .500 team.
Are these concepts related?
Well, yes. In that the Lakers have managed to win four games … but have contrived to lose four.
It seems increasingly […]

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I can’t believe I’m writing a blog post with the “Kardashian” name in the headline. But this is about sports. Really.
A news item last week revealed that Kris Humphries is the most-disliked player in the NBA, according to recent surveys of the American public.
Fifty percent of all respondents identified Kris Humphries as an NBA […]

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I didn’t really plan to watch the Lakers in their season-opener on Christmas Day.
The game didn’t start until 2:30 p.m. in Los Angeles (which was early December 26 here in the UAE), and I prefer my sports-from-the-other-side-of-the-world to end about that time. Not start.
But the night kinda dragged on, and when I got to […]

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Eight months of the year, the idea that regular guys and kids might go outside for a kick-about, as the Brits call it, would seem exotic. It’s too hot, and by the time it’s not quite so hot it’s midnight, and even in a country that tends to be nocturnal in the summer, that’s too […]

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Generous of me, yes, to allow the Clippers to have Chris Paul — since the trade is already made and I’m not the erratic and capricious commissioner of the NBA who can step in and quash a deal.
Lakers fans will be agitated about this trade, for two reasons: That Chris Paul will not be wearing […]

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Casper Ware, the star point guard at Long Beach State, the kid who scored a career-high 28 points in the 86-76 spanking of 10th-ranked Pitt on the Panthers’ home floor …
… is getting a shout-out from a significant website.

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I believe the 2011-12 NBA season should not happen. At all.
It’s not as if the NBA is missed, which is probably pretty damning.
Do you know anyone — anyone — who is talking about how the lack of NBA games is tearing them up? Or even vaguely disturbing them?
That, then, is a league that may as […]

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