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The Untold Folk Legend of Jimmy Butler

In Monday night’s Bulls-Heat game, we saw an outstanding team performance from Chicago and an even more outstanding individual performance from the formerly anonymous Jimmy Butler, scoring 21 points, grabbing 14 rebounds and matching up with LeBron James to force … Continue reading

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Some Love for Coaching

**Editor’s Note: This post is written by the newest SpreeGoogs writer, Lamar, who will be joining the blog writing under the name Dell Johnson. Lamar is a former NCAA college basketball player who also played on the European professional circuit, … Continue reading

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About Michael Jordan and LeBron James

In case you haven’t heard, last week was Michael Jordan’s 50th birthday. Of course, there was plenty of deserved reminiscing in the form of countdowns, lists, highlights and a few interviews between cigars. It was great. Except for one thing: … Continue reading

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How the World Will End and What Basketball Has To Do With It

The way the universe is currently set up, it will end in 2012. The way SpreeGoogs is set up, we like to run with conspiracy theories. Even though the world didn’t technically end when the old science indicated it would last … Continue reading

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2012 SpreeGoogs NBA Mock Draft – Picks 23-30 (Plus Podcast)

Hold on, folks. This is it. The grand finale of our four-part mock draft/podcast extravaganza. If you’re just catching on now, play catch-up with these links: Picks 1-7 Pick 8-14 Picks 15-22 Quick mock draft recap: 1. New Orleans Hornets … Continue reading

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I Don’t Know How To Feel About This …

I have a lot of emotions when I see this and none of them go together.

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An NBA Playoff Primer For Anyone Else Who Still Thinks It’s 2000

In case you missed the Bulls-Heat overtime thriller last night, let me explain what happened. Basically, the Bulls were up late until the Heat grabbed a three-point lead win the final minute. Then with less than 3 seconds left, the … Continue reading

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2nd Half of the NBA Season and Beyond

The lockout took away 16 regular-season NBA games, creating a grueling schedule with no practice time and more importantly, essentially no recovery time. Despite the negative consequences of last years’ selfish negotiations that no basketball fan could understand combined with the numerous critics … Continue reading

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Did two NBA teams really score less than 65 points on the same night?

The answer is yes. While finishing up watching the Lakers-Clippers game (more on that to come from my boy SpreeGoogs), I quickly checked the bottom line at scores of some of the other NBA games that night. First I saw … Continue reading

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New Air Jordans Inspire Frenzy, Space Jam Flashbacks

There are only a few items that people stand in line for hours to buy: Harry Potter movie tickets, iPhones, Call of Duty and Star Wars box DVD sets (alright maybe that last one is just me). AND don’t forget … Continue reading

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Debating Lakers-Bulls (in a joyful holiday mood of course)

Vlade Van Exel: Full disclosure, I have been a Laker fan since I was 8. The starting five when I began watching them was Nick Van Exel, Eddie Jones, Cedric Ceballos, Elden Campbell and Vlade Divac. As you can probably … Continue reading

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The 7 Worst Positions to Play in Sports

As I was watching NFL games yesterday, I started to think about how awful one of the positions must be to play (more on that later). Then I started thinking about other awful positions across other sports and the players … Continue reading

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Responding to NBA Draft Picks in 5 Words or Fewer

That draft was intense. It only took 4 picks for it to pretty much get ridiculous, which is about what we all expected. I’ve listed the results below with what I believe to be the correct transactions via trade, and … Continue reading

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2011 NBA Mock Draft: Part 2, the Rest of the First Round

Are you excited for the NBA Draft tonight? I am. There are very few things more exciting than drafts, but luckily for you guys, one of those things is the 2011 SpreeGoogs NBA mock draft. Here comes the second half … Continue reading

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Comparing NBA Players to Michael Jordan Should Be a Crime

Yesterday Scottie Pippen said something stupid about Michael Jordan and LeBron James. And it will probably not surprise anyone that ESPN made it their headline, talked about it on every single show today, re-tweeted it, took out billboards to plaster … Continue reading

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