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		<title>Buss&#8217; contributions to NBA won&#8217;t be forgotten</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Jerry Buss, the legendary Basketball Hall of Fame owner of the Los Angeles Lakers who died Monday, was by vocation a chemist, the Dr. before his name for his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Southern California at age 24. Smart man, surely. But it takes more than being intelligent to be successful, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harden the loser in trade from OKC</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Houston Rockets are going to make the playoffs, and without trading for James Harden there basically was no chance they would. The Oklahoma City Thunder still are among the top five contenders for the NBA championship, but not likely as strong a contender as they were the day before they traded Harden. So you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garnett an enigma despite unquestioned greatness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Kevin Garnett]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So why are so many people applauding a guy who makes fun of cancer patients, calls other men&#8217;s wives sluts and punches opponents in the groin? Well, there aren&#8217;t that many people applauding Kevin Garnett, who has been accused of those crimes and misdemeanors, most recently by the Knicks&#8217; Carmelo Anthony, who after Garnett&#8217;s latest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t expect Jackson to emerge as Nets&#8217; savior</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dodgers are not returning to Brooklyn, and neither is Phil Jackson. Actually, when Phil was playing for the Knicks in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he lived in an apartment in Chelsea in lower Manhattan not far from the Brooklyn Bridge. That&#8217;s as close as he&#8217;s ever going to be, though I recall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bulls keeping pace in East with Rose on mend</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If the Chicago Bulls are this good without point guard Derrick Rose &#8212;not great, but good &#8212; then could they really be serious title contenders even this season? You&#8217;d, of course, have said no chance coming into the 2012-13 NBA season, and anytime in the first month as the Bulls lurched along around .500. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knicks may live up to hype this time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an old question you hear around the NBA sometimes. It goes like this: What&#8217;s the definition of a dynasty? Answer: When a family in China governs for hundreds of years. Or when a New York sports team wins three games in a row. Look out, but a New York Knicks&#8217; dynasty may be here. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cerebral Paul a true renaissance man</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t hear much profound in sports locker room these days, even about sports. You hear about &#8220;rhythm,&#8221; and &#8220;momentum&#8221; and playing them &#8220;one at a time.&#8221; So it was a delight to listen to Chris Paul the other day. The Los Angeles Clippers had just beaten the Chicago Bulls, who were playing without the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brown wasn&#8217;t only problem for Lakers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Smith covered the Chicago Bulls for the Chicago Tribune for nearly 25 years, including all six of the team&#8217;s NBA titles with Michael Jordan. He is the author of the best-selling book &#8220;The Jordan Rules&#8221; and now writes for bulls.com. He was honored with the Basketball Hall of Fame&#8217;s Curt Gowdy Media Award for [...]]]></description>
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