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The new NBA weekly column of HoopsVibe.com by NBA analyst Jordan Rivas. Every Wednesday.


USA Basketball: Playing Like LosersUSA Basketball: Playing Like Losers
08.15.2007
USA Basketball is no longer the premier hoops program in the world. It hasn’t been for five years. And quite frankly, it’s getting kind of old being the (...)
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The Kevin Garnett Deal: It Had to HappenThe Kevin Garnett Deal: It Had to Happen
08.1.2007
In the immortal words of Don Vito Corleone, "I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse."That phrase has never suggested what one would consider to be a ’good’ deal; what it does suggest, (...)
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Yi Jianlian: The Follow UpYi Jianlian: The Follow Up
07.18.2007
A lot of the comments made on my article "Yi Jianlian and the Great Wall of Stupid" have been really great, and raised some good points, so I thought I should address a few of (...)
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Yi Jianlian and the Great Wall of StupidYi Jianlian and the Great Wall of Stupid
07.17.2007
Yi Jianlian is "definitely not" going to play for the Milwaukee Bucks.And so it takes no more than two words to cause this debacle of draft inadequacy, rough international relations, team (...)
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Five NBA Moves to MakeFive NBA Moves to Make
07.4.2007
I’ll be honest, free agency and the offseason makes my head hurt.Keeping up with who’s going where and when and for how much, and all the rumors concerning those dealing is about as easy as (...)
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The KG to LA Deal: What if it goes down?The KG to LA Deal: What if it goes down?
06.27.2007
The headline, "Garnett to be dealt to Lakers."And all of a sudden things gets hotter than a twenty dollar Rolex.We’ve come to expect, and dare I say welcome, a good Kevin Garnett trade rumor (...)
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NBA Finals: UnderratedNBA Finals: Underrated
06.13.2007
The NBA Finals are underrated.The term, in this case, isn’t being used in its normal context, however. I’m not specifically saying that people are judging the quality of the Finals too (...)
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NBA Finals: The Breakdown and The CallNBA Finals: The Breakdown and The Call
06.6.2007
The NBA Finals herald the arrival of the league’s next great superstar. After taking down the long reigning Pistons in the East, LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers get ready to battle the (...)
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LeBron James: Never EnoughLeBron James: Never Enough
05.30.2007
LeBron James is not good enough. He never will be.When I wrote an article back in 2005 about LeBron James, I was dishing thoughts on the then darling of the league. At that moment, he was (...)
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Suns/Spurs Suspensions: The ProblemSuns/Spurs Suspensions: The Problem
05.16.2007
Robert Horry should not be suspended.Amare Stoudemire should not be suspended.Boris Diaw should not be suspended.And Stu Jackson should be fired.With under a minute remaining in game four of (...)
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The Failure of the Dallas MavericksThe Failure of the Dallas Mavericks
05.9.2007
The Dallas Mavericks are going to win the 2007 NBA Championship.Those are words that were never written, words that will never fall in the space of this column, words that will never be written (...)
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Calling the Squads: All-NBA TeamsCalling the Squads: All-NBA Teams
05.2.2007
The tradition of naming an All-NBA Team has been around for as many seasons as the NBA itself, dating all the way back to the 1946-47 season. I found this interesting. Not surprising, or (...)
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NBA Hardware 2007NBA Hardware 2007
04.25.2007
Predicting the winners of the yearly player awards in the NBA has become somewhat of a tradition. And like any tradition, it always finds its way to completion - even if it’s late.A few days (...)
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No ToleranceNo Tolerance
04.19.2007
Joey Crawford got exactly what he deserved.Joey Crawford has been suspended indefinitely from the NBA and there couldn’t have been a more appropriate punishment, even if I didn’t realize that (...)
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Oden & Durant: Line ’Em UpOden & Durant: Line ’Em Up
04.11.2007
Greg Oden is as good as Kevin Durant, at least.Over the next fifteen years or so I suppose we’ll debate which of these two phenomenal young players is better. But I’ll those debates for the (...)
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