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Here’s “Sasha Vujacic”’s take on his breakout performance in game 3 of the Finals. You should be rooting for a Game 7, if only because it increases the chances of another “video blog” from The Machine. Mucho thanks to Lakers-fan.com for giving the world some sort of entertainment out of these playoffs.
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In an ugly-ass Game 3, Kobe was driving the car (36 points on 12-20 shooting, but only 11-18 from the line), and Sasha “The Machine” Vujacic was the gunner: 20 points on 7-10 shooting, 3-5 from downtown (and zero hesitation, as always). I loved the guy in Phil Jackson’s post-game press conference who asked what [...]

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Game 1 of the NBA Finals is tonight, so I thought I’d spit out some Finals-related links to get you ready:

Chris Ballard’s profile of Kobe from the June 2 SI. The bottom line- dude’s a killer, but can’t shut it off. My take is that he’ll never be MJ because he lacks some amount of [...]

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Red hated flopping too

Flopping is SO HOTT right now. Via Fanhouse (where I saw it), here’s Red Auerbach on flopping:

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Flop-onomics

Yesterday, the NBA announced that next year they’re going to start fining players for flopping. Huzzah- let me say that I hate flopping. That said, it’s too bad the new policy won’t have any real effect on the game. What’s the real cost to players? A little bit of scratch? Whoop-dee-do. The players (e.g. Ginobili, [...]

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