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You Gotta Wonder... Could Olympiakos Beat the NBA Dregs?

Josh Childress started for an NBA team. Von Wafer played significant minutes on an NBA playoff team. Linas Kleiza once scored 41 points in an NBA regular season game (this ain't no summer league, man!) And they're all members of Olympiakos B.C. Now since Childress decided to taste the awesome flavor of Dolmades, there has...

Can the Nuggets Improve?

The Nuggets far exceeded expectations this season. The team ranked not as the squad most likely to scare the snot out of the Lakers, but as the old guard least likely to return to the postseason in the New World.Chauncey Billups, Nene, Kenyon Martin, Carmelo Anthony, George Karl, Chris Andersen, J.R. Smith and Joe Dumars...

Three-Pointers Tell the Game 2 Story

Cherry Picking recaps yesterday's NBA playoff action.Three-point shots often play a critical role in an NBA playoff contest. But in Denver's win over the Lakers in Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals, the threes that were made (and missed) by both teams came at such key moments, that they ended up defining this...

Nuggets Flip the Script, Win Game 2

In many ways, Game 2 of the Western Conference finals was an exact replica of Game 1. Except in this one, the Nuggets and the Lakers seemed to switch roles, and Denver was the team celebrating a hard-fought, last-second victory as they left the court.The Nuggets overcame a double-digit deficit early and ended up making the...

Does Carmelo Get the Calls?

The Rotation is a weekly study on the NBA by one of our All-Star voices. In rotation this week is Brett Pollakoff, who talks to Nuggets coach George Karl and some of his players about whether the refs are short-changing Carmelo Anthony.Carmelo Anthony has an aggressive offensive game that is predicated on getting to the...