<![CDATA[    So now, it's official. The NBA has selected DeMarcus Cousins to take the place of the injured Kobe Bryant, which means that we can officially say that Damian Lillard, master of the step-back three, end-of-game assassin, and the object of countless internet memes, like this:   …has officially been snubbed from the 2015 NBA All-Star…

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<![CDATA[So it just hit the news today that businessman Bruce Levenson has voluntarily agreed to sell his ownership stake in the Atlanta Hawks in response to an internal NBA investigation over a racially insensitive email he sent to Hawks staffers in 2012 — which he voluntarily disclosed to the league office himself in July. Now, I’ve seen and…

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<![CDATA[    There are a lot of sighs of relief and satisfaction today. After an unauthorized recording exposing his racist attitudes found its way to TMZ, and after just about everyone connected to the league spent the weekend consumed with “WTF” levels of gawkery over his well-documented reputation for racism, and after swift sanctions against…

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<![CDATA[When it comes to this year’s Portland Trail Blazers, I can honestly say that I really like our players. All of them. And I don’t just like them as players, I like them as people. Granted, I don’t know them all that well, I only know them as much as any fan can know a…

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<![CDATA[I know their record is only 6-4, but a 3-1 road trip and a gut-it-out win against lowly Minnesota, where the Blazers only had their C game and still found a way to get it done, is heartening to Blazer fans everywhere. Quite a few talking heads (writing heads?) said that if they could end…

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<![CDATA[Well, he did it. My brother lost the bet that he and I made several months back, wherein he all but swore on a Bible that there was no way that Barack Obama could beat John McCain in a general election. I believe his quote was, “A brotha… in these times? Against a war hero?…

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<![CDATA[ (By the way, this isn’t just one of those generic open letters aimed at anyone who fits the description. There is an actual young Republican that I tried to engage recently in conversation surrounding these issues, but his lack of response to my questions and continued rhetoric on his blog afterward have caused me…

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<![CDATA[So now Dave is my favorite columnist. Okay, fine. He’s not a columnist, he’s a blogger. But he should be a columnist, because he is very insightful. And now I can see part of the reason why I’ve been drawn to his writing. Because he thinks like I do… as a budding young minister of…

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<![CDATA[Chris Bosh is a funny dude. In three years, he and G.O. could both be chasing a title and vying for the Shaquille O’Neal Memorial Funniest Cat in the NBA Award. Which is why the Tonight Show grabbed him and asked him to serve as their Finals correspondent. For once, the Tonight Show actually delivered…

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<![CDATA[Because just maybe that non-call against his team, and his teammates stoic refusal to blame the refs, might galvanize a little public support for his team. Up until now, all I heard on talk radio was how much they can’t stand the Spurs, how Tim Duncan is a whiner, how Manu Ginobili is a flopper,…

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