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Tip-Off Timer: Scott Skiles Is the Single Game Assist King With 30

Tip-Off Timer counts down the days until the first game of the 2009-10 season. On Sunday, there are 30 days remaining. Most of the NBA records, the most prestigious ones, are held -- and rightfully so -- by the greatest players in history. Names like Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, Karl Malone, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Larry...

Tip-Off Timer: NBA's First Season of 1946-47 Had Some Intriguing Stories

Tip-Off Timer counts down the days until the first game of the 2009-10 season. On Friday, there are 46 days remaining. So you think all this NBA promotion mania is the product of David Stern's 25-plus years as commissioner? Think again. When the NBA opened its doors for business on Nov. 1, 1946, the homestanding Toronto...

Tip-Off Timer: Are 82 Games Too Many?

Tip-Off Timer counts down the days until the first game of the 2009-10 season. On Thursday, there are exactly 82 days remaining. The number 82 wasn't always the magic number in the NBA. It just seems that way. Although the length of the playoffs and the number of teams has grown dramatically in the last 42 years, not since...

Bad Boys Return to Honor Chuck Daly

TEQUESTA, Fla. -- This looked like a Bad Boys reunion.The NBA came from around the country Wednesday to celebrate the life and mourn the death of Chuck Daly, but nothing was more impressive than his collection of pallbearers.It was the nucleus of his two championship teams in Detroit, the ones that transformed him from...

Background on Matt Guokas

Matthew George "Matt" Guokas, Jr. (born February 25, 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; last name pronounced ) is a former American professional basketball player and coach.

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