Stories By James Holas
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BBALLBREAKDOWN
/ 6 months agoSaying Goodbye To The Spurs’ Deus ex machina
In 2002, Nelly and Kelly Rowland’s Dilemma was burning up the airwaves, The Wire debuted on HBO, and a baby-faced Argentinean...
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BBALLBREAKDOWN
/ 9 months agoThe Celtics Are Rewriting Basketball And Narratives
For decades, the Boston Celtics’ glory was immortalized by the words of iconic scribes like Jackie MacMullen and Bob Ryan. In...
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BBALLBREAKDOWN
/ 10 months agoIs the Raptors biggest enemy LeBron James or their own minds?
Fifty-one weeks ago, Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri announced it was time for a cultural reset. Just before the Golden State...
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BBALLBREAKDOWN
/ 10 months agoThe Rage of Russell Westbrook, your reigning MVP
The reigning MVP spent a laboriously uneven season telling anyone who’s listen that, despite all visual and analytical evidence otherwise, the...
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BBALLBREAKDOWN
/ 10 months agoCan the suffocating Jazz put out Russell Westbrook’s relentless fire?
The NBA season isn’t so much a sprint or marathon as it is a time-lapsed sociological experiment. With 30 teams playing...
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BBALLBREAKDOWN
/ 11 months agoThis year’s rookie class the best since 2003
Time is a flat circle, looping in on itself with the slightest of variations until, one day, LeBron James is looking...
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BBALLBREAKDOWN
/ 12 months agoThe clock is ticking on this Thunder core and Russell Westbrook
The Oklahoma City Thunder are in trouble. Russell Westbrook was a tour de force last season. After losing Kevin Durant, Westbrook...