Posts by Jared Dubin
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Rhythm of the Night: NBA Players Talk About Their Pregame Warm-ups
The secret pregame rituals, habits, quirks, and hang-ups of NBA players has always fascinated me. Which players go hardest in warm-ups? Who takes it easy? How are the routines crafted? Who warms up with a partner? Does anybody work on defense?
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Two Knicks Fans Get Hopeful at the Dawn of a New Era
With Phil Jackson being announced as the new front-office figurehead of the organization, our two long-suffering Knickerbocker aficionados take stock.
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Kendall Marshall and Xavier Henry Flourish Under Mike D’Antoni’s Revival Tent
Three Lakers, playing with new leases on their basketball lives, talk about the coach who has given them a second chance.
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The Norris Cole Invasion
Talking with Norris Cole (and Shane Battier) about Norris Cole.
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Should We Blow It Up? Two Knicks Fans Contemplate the Past, Present, and Future
The Knicks have lost nine games in a row. In the last couple of days, Iman Shumpert lit up Carmelo Anthony in a huddle, reportedly for playing poor defense during New York’s loss to New Orleans. Shumpert spent the rest of the game on the bench. Since then, it’s been reported that Kenyon Martin and […]
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14-Day NBA Warning: Shump! Shump!
With apologies to Charles Oakley, I feel pretty comfortable stating that Iman Shumpert is the coolest New York Knick since Clyde Frazier. Between his easily nicknameable surname (“Shump”); his invention of #KnicksTape (which eventually spawned this picture of Knicks coach Mike Woodson); and that even while injured, Shumpert was New York’s pregame pump-up circle guy […]
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Q&A: The Directors of Linsanity Talk About Their New Film, Taiwan, and February 4, 2012
Jeremy Lin is pushing the ball up the floor at a hellacious pace. Confronted with one defender near the free throw line, then another to his left, and later a third to his right, Lin picks up the ball, spins around and between all three bodies, and softly lofts a layup that touches off the […]
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Do Yourself a Favor: Learn How to Stop Talking About Tony Romo
You may have seen that the Dallas Cowboys lost to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday. If you were just watching NFL RedZone and checking in sporadically, chances are you noticed that Tony Romo accounted for 88.9 percent of the Cowboys’ yards from scrimmage, but that he also turned the ball over in the fourth […]
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How the Lakers’ Salary-Cap Reality Makes the LeBron-Carmelo Summer of 2014 a Pipe Dream
The 2013 free-agency signing period isn’t even over yet, but already the basketball world can barely wait for the summer of 2014, when LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, and Carmelo Anthony can all become free agents. Adding fuel to the fire is the fact that the Lakers will be armed with loads and loads […]
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Why the System, and Not Its Pieces, Will Determine the Clippers’ Defensive Success
It’s been quite the offseason for the Los Angeles Clippers. By re-signing Chris Paul, snatching Doc Rivers away from the Celtics, turning Eric Bledsoe’s potential and Caron Butler’s contract into J.J. Redick and Jared Dudley, and retaining Matt Barnes, the Clips have been remolded as a true Western Conference power. Paul’s presence on the roster […]
