Tag Archives: Kyrie Irving

Picking the 2013 NBA All-Star Reserves

Everyone breathe out, the NBA All-Star starters were announced this week, and luckily, the fans didn’t vote Jeremy Lin into the game. From here, the rest of the team is selected by the coaches, so he won’t make it. You … 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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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 1, the Lottery

It’s hard to imagine that I’ve only had this blog running for a few months and I’m already getting to do my second mock draft. Basically, I created SpreeGoogs to publish my own mock drafts, but at this rate, I’m … Continue reading

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Let’s Pretend I’m Making Decisions for the Cavaliers on Draft Night…

Why would I draft Kyrie Irving with the first overall pick? Here’s what we know: The Cavs need as many good players as they can get because they suck. To use NBA JAM terminology, they’re probably aiming to get a … Continue reading

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2011 NBA Draft Top 11 Prospects: Part 1

We’re a week away from the 2011 NBA draft, and I know I’m so thrilled I’m sweating. Drafts mean I generally sit around at my computer watching highlights of players and reading profiles about them and then watching the highlights … Continue reading

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It’s Never Too Early to Start Thinking About The NBA Draft

Before I get into what I think about the NBA Finals beginning on Tuesday, I want to take this post to deal with another basketball-related topic that I’m intensely interested in — the NBA Draft. If you’re new to the … Continue reading

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2011 NCAA Basketball Tournament: Important Observations 45-46 UNC/Washington, Duke/Michigan

Two exciting games so far, let’s hope this keeps happening today. 45. North Carolina 86, Washington 83 — Officials in basketball make more subjective calls than those in other sports and they have a much bigger impact at the end … Continue reading

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2011 NCAA Basketball Tournament: Important Observations 23-27

*Unnumbered but still important observation from this afternoon’s games — If you’re going to nap during a set of basketball games, you may think you have beaten the system by recording the important ones so you can watch them when … Continue reading

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