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Letter of the Law: The NBA From A to Z

A to Z.It sounds like the 1952 NBA All-Star Game, which featured Paul Arizin and Max Zaslofsky.It sounds like the 1971 champion Milwaukee Bucks, who had Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Zopf.It sounds like the history of Lithuanian centers, from Arvydas Sabonis to Zydrunas Ilgauskas.It also sounds like a good way to take a...

Tip-Off Timer: Mount Mutombo Erupts With 31 Blocks in First-Round Series

Tip-Off Timer counts down the days until the first game of the 2009-10 season. On Saturday, there are 31 days remaining. Yes, there was Mount St. Helens in 1980. But there was another pretty impressive eruption in 1994.That would be the one by Mount Mutombo.Dikembe Mutombo's Denver Nuggets, the No. 8 seed in the West,...

A Great Series but Not the Greatest

That was a great series. Boston-Chicago had everything you wanted and then some.The full seven games ... overtimes and close finishes ... star player stepping up ... role players emerging. You name it. Yes, it was truly a great series. But the best first-round series of all time? Let's not go that far.I'll still take the...

Impossible to Forget Dikembe

Felled after a collision with a man half his age, Dikembe Mutombo will apparently never play in the NBA again. This isn't the first retirement for Mutombo, but it sure feels like the final one. And boy, the league will miss this guy. But no one will forget him.The clip above shows Deke as he will always be remembered: the...

Do the Lakers Lack a Killer Instinct?

Cherry Picking recaps the previous day's NBA playoff action.Objectively speaking, the Lakers hold a commanding 2-0 lead in their first-round matchup with the Jazz. How commanding? According to ESPN's John Hollinger, teams that open a series with two straight wins have gone on to win the series 192 out of a possible 204...

DikembeMutombo News From the Web

05/12/12 Vince Carter: VC's Top 10 Career Dunks Source: Bleacher Report Dikembe Mutombo was one of the greatest defensive players of his generation.
03/30/12 âDisappointed' King passed over for Hall Source: New York Post - New York NY Bernard King, former Knicks legend, said he is "quite disappointed he has been passed over again for induction into the Hall of Fame. The Post reported on its website yesterday King, 55, was not voted in as an inductee to the Springfield, Mass., shrine, citing a league source.