Monthly Archives: June 2007

Sydman’s Side Defect: 2007 NBA Draft

The 2007 NBA Draft Results (June 28, 2007 – US Time) Enough introductions! On with the review! 1. Portland: Greg Oden Good grief. You might not see this in two years but the Blazers can be the team of the future. In two years, they added talent, depth, and they took out the loose ends.aaa

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Ball Hog: Some Favorites

Interactive Mock Draft Here‘s Bill Simmons at his best, throwing big time response at every point thrown at him by Ford. He easily bludgeoned NBA draft expert Chat Ford. But still, Ford might have won the one-upmanship as Bill made the biggest mistake in this interactive mock draft, he selected Kevin Durant overall.

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Talk and Text Phonepals vs San Antonio Spurs anyone?

I got this news from an email and after further research I found this site containing the same news about The Phonepals flying to US to train with The San Antonio Spurs in August. Phone Pals headed to Texas in August The Talk ‘N Text Phone Pals may be taking on NBA champions the Sanaaa

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Top Basketball Sites

According to Hitwise, for the week ending June 16, 2007, the top ten Basketball websites based on “visits.” NBA.com Yahoo! Sports NBA ESPN.com – NBA Foxsports NBA HoopsHype NBA.com – News and Features San Antonio Spurs SI.com – Pro Basketball CBS Sportsline.com NBA ESPN.com – Men’s College Basketball Surprising to me, that Yahoo’s NBA siteaaa

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The Red Bull Yeng Guiao Era is Ticking

I was at a medical clinic lobby earlier today and I happen to read a Yeng Guiao article from a news daily (BTW, when was the last time you bought a printed daily? Excluding “Toro”, “Barako” and “Bulgar”). Later, I scoured the Philippine Star online edition, to find the Pampanga provincial news. Regarding how theaaa

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Williams, Menk, Yap reinforce RP pool

By Nelson Beltran – Philstar.com Friday, June 22, 2007 The SMC-RP Team is reinforcing its pool of players with the addition of Kelly Williams, Eric Menk and either James Yap or KG Canaleta upon its return from a training trip in Belgrade, Serbia, Williams has decided to cut short his stay in the United Statesaaa

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Talk N Text 2007 PBA Fiesta Conference Semis Kicks-Off

With the demise of the Ginebra, the PBA will now try to make a blockbuster semi-finals out of the following cast: Talk N Text, Red Bull, San Miguel Beer and Alaska Milk. After a 0-6 disastrous start in the elims and after two miraculous victories (over Coke and Ginebra) in the wildcard and quarters stages,aaa

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The Truth: A new road ahead

First up, I apologize for the looooooong absence. I’m still trying to adjust into a new stage of my life, yeah. The college life. Anyway, this one’s not going to be that long either, school’s been taking its toll on me so that’s why you haven’t seen me or my wtf articles for quite sometimeaaa

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The NBA Playoffs: WHAT WENT WRONG?

The NBA Playoffs: WHAT WENT WRONG? A marketing nightmare… this was what the 2007 playoffs was. In the regular season, we saw a lot a great things that did not translate come crunch time. Where were Dallas’ 15-game win streaks and Miami’s sudden surge despite injury-depleted? Where were Kobe Bryant’s 50-point games and the tremendousaaa

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LeBron James Finals Showing – We are all witnesses!

A 0 – 4 LeBrooming by the San Antonio Spurs. Games 1 to 3, LeBron James made only 2-of-26 jumpers, 3 games is too long a stretch to have an off-shooting spree. Critical missed lay-ups in Game 3. MJ comparisons huh? Did my Michael Jordan miss gimme lay-ups? And boy, his outside were really clanking.aaa

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