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One of the biggest comparisons you will see this season will be between Toronto's Vince Carter with Washington's Michael Jordan.
Both played collegiately at North Carolina. Both won the slam dunk contest. Both possess tremendous physical skills. Both are nicknamed Air.
But that, at least for now, is where the comparisons stop - until this seasons ends, that is. Because Jordan won six championships while he was with the Chicago Bulls, but Carter, still young and growing, has yet to win one.
Many think this could be Carter's chance to imitate Jordan in that area as well. Not only did the Toronto Raptors hold on to Carter by signing him to a $90 million contract that will keep him - and professional basketball - in Canada for a while longer, but they also signed veteran center Hakeem Olajuwon by outbidding the Houston Rockets for his services.
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On the surface, it would seem difficult to generate hope in most NBA cities when the eventual champion seems a foregone conclusion in October.
Face it: Unless Shaquille O'Neal or Kobe Bryant breaks a leg -- or changes careers -- a third consecutive Los Angeles Lakers title seems probable, even inevitable.
But that minor detail has not deflated the rest of the league.
Quite the contrary, in fact.
As the NBA's regular season tips off tonight, optimistic faces are surfacing in most unlikely places.
The Washington Wizards, poster children for ineptitude, have been revitalized by the return of Michael Jordan.
The perennially hapless Los Angeles Clippers boast some of the league's finest collection of young talent.
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Oct 2001 Archive
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| Oct 30, 2001
The Houston Chronicle's Jonathan Feigen ranks the league.
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| Oct 30, 2001
THERE was a time, long, long ago (last season) that the NBA prayed and waited for the Second Comeback.
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| Oct 30, 2001
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Pacific Division
LOS ANGELES LAKERS
Last season: 56-26, won second straight NBA title by going 15-1 in the postseason.
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| Oct 30, 2001
No, I won't pick the Spurs to win the West.
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| Oct 30, 2001
On the surface, it would seem difficult to generate hope in most NBA cities when the eventual champion seems a foregone conclusion in October.
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| Oct 30, 2001
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| Oct 30, 2001
They're all back.
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| Oct 30, 2001
RealGM has projected teams will not pay the dreaded luxury tax this year.
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| Oct 29, 2001
Frank Hughes of the Tacoma News Tribune reports: The Sixers, inundated with injuries, went back to the past, trading with the Charlotte Hornets for Derrick Coleman, who wreaked havoc in the City of Brotherly Love for four years before being let go.
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| Oct 29, 2001
Voskuhl is on the move like many players today
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| Oct 29, 2001
Mark Aguirre and Sidney Moncrief know their NBA.
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| Oct 29, 2001
This is the Miami's season preview.
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| Oct 29, 2001
In case anybody forgot amid all the Michael Jordan hoopla, the Los Angeles Lakers rolled through the postseason last spring unlike any NBA team before them ever had.
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| Oct 29, 2001
Lacy Banks of the Chicago Sun-Times runs through his thoughts on each team for the upcoming NBA season.
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| Oct 28, 2001
Analyzing last week's two big non-Heat trades and how they affected the six teams:
TRADE 1
Milwaukee: Gets C Aleksandar Radojevic and No.
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| Oct 28, 2001
Strained Back.
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| Oct 28, 2001
Johnathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle reports: Having had a full preseason to see the zones, to analyze their use, evaluate the advantages and disadvantages they offer and consider how they will change the NBA forever, we have just one question:
What zones?
Kevin Willis sounded as if he was caught in the Twilight Zone when he announced that Kelvin Cato would be an "elite" center.
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| Oct 28, 2001
Nunyo Demasio of the Seattle Times reports: When Jim McIlvaine's ignominious career ended last week, it barely registered as a blip on the NBA radar.
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| Oct 28, 2001
RANK/TEAM THE SKINNY
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| Oct 28, 2001
When Michael Jordan unleashed his final shot at the Delta Center to seal the 1998 NBA championship, light bulbs flashed to capture the picture-perfect ending.
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| Oct 28, 2001
Why Darrick Martin won’t shake your hand, the Mavs coaches’ real specialty, and babies named "Jalen'' in another edition of random thoughts while teetering atop a barstool.
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| Oct 28, 2001
The biggest curiosity in the league – aside from what to expect in Michael Jordan's second unretirement – is the introduction of zone defenses and how they'll affect the game.
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| Oct 28, 2001
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| Oct 28, 2001
Confession time: The number wasn't just picked out of the air.
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| Oct 28, 2001
Allen Iverson, Philadelphia
Although we're guessing Vince Carter, Tracy McGrady and that Michael Jordan fellow might not agree.
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| Oct 28, 2001
In order of predicted finish; rosters through Wednesday.
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| Oct 28, 2001
Kobe Bryant, LA Lakers
With Shaq hobbling on a surgically repaired toe and the focus of zones, Kobe could be king.
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| Oct 28, 2001
Coach: Phil Jackson (third season, 123-41)
2000-01: 56-26, first in Pacific.
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| Oct 28, 2001
The luxury tax essentially closes the salary cap loopholes, most notably the "Larry Bird exception" that allowed teams to go over the cap to re-sign their own free agents.
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| Oct 28, 2001
Teams now can play any defense they choose.
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| Oct 28, 2001
May-December alliances have changed the face of the NBA's Eastern Conference.
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| Oct 28, 2001
The addition of hard-headed Anthony Mason, one of the league's poster boys for bad judgment, could push the already unpredictable Milwaukee Bucks into a season of turmoil.
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| Oct 28, 2001
Here are team previews from the Orlando Sentinel for 29 NBA teams.
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| Oct 28, 2001
There are some who insist Shakespeare (above) was a hockey fan.
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| Oct 27, 2001
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| Oct 27, 2001
It's over.
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| Oct 26, 2001
Defense as we know it in the NBA has been changed dramatically by new rules that allow teams to play zones.
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| Oct 26, 2001
Shaquille O'Neal could make 100 percent of his free throws this season.
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| Oct 25, 2001
As Michael Jordan makes his way around the league, sports writers will all work a bit harder to put his visit in a larger context.
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| Oct 24, 2001
Glenn Rogers of the San Antonio Express-News reports: "It's going to get ugly, I think," says Keith Glass, veteran agent.
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| Oct 24, 2001
On Monday, David Stern briefed Mavericks players about the state of the league.
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| Oct 23, 2001
Eric Fisher of the Washington Times writes that NBA commissioner David Stern insists that there is more to the NBA than Jordan's comeback.
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| Oct 22, 2001
The Ogden Standard-Examiner has a story about the impact of the luxury tax.
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| Oct 22, 2001
CNNSI's Marty Burns, after a week of exhibition games, tells us about 5 guys who are making a name for themselves after appearing out of nowhere: Rockets' Oscar Torres, Pistons' Zeljko Rebraca, Nuggets' Menk Batere, Heat's Tang Hamilton, and the Suns' Charlie Bell.
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| Oct 22, 2001
Discussion of how the new rules, especially allowing zone defence, will work.
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| Oct 21, 2001
Johnathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle reports: The Warriors did not cheat.
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| Oct 21, 2001
In their Sunday columns: Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald and Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel both have news from around the NBA.
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| Oct 21, 2001
Chris Young of the Toronto Star looks at some of the fallout from September 11, starting with the charter arrangements teams are making.
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| Oct 19, 2001
ESPN's Frank Hughes decries the imbalance the medical exception has the potential of creating.
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| Oct 15, 2001
The Houston Rockets today announced increased security that will be implemented immediately for the 2001-02 National Basketball Association season.
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| Oct 15, 2001
The Chronicle's Jonathan Feigen reflects on this season's contract whiners: Terrell Brandon, Sam Cassell, and George Lynch.
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| Oct 14, 2001
Just spitballing here, but perhaps it's time to tell the boss I'm going to cut back on all that work this season, ease off a bit.
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| Oct 14, 2001
Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports: Center Luc Longley retires.
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| Oct 14, 2001
Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald reports: Here's a sentence that before this week had never been stated: The Clippers are trying to downplay expectations.
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| Oct 14, 2001
It's not about excellence anymore for Michael Jordan.
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| Oct 13, 2001
The Toronto Globe & Mail's Robert MacLeod reports that NBA teams have been instructed to allow some members of the media to travel on the charter flights.
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| Oct 10, 2001
George Karl took a large step toward accomplishing one of his professional goals Tuesday.
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| Oct 8, 2001
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| Oct 7, 2001
So this must be basketball season.
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| Oct 7, 2001
Yesterday we told you that Dennis Rodman was hoping the Pacers would offer him an NBA lifeline, and today the Associated Press is reporting that there simply is no room for the rebounding machine with a troubled background.
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| Oct 7, 2001
Lacy Banks of the Chicago Sun-Times looks at the financial impact of Michael Jordan's return on an economy that was shellshocked after the terrorist attacks on September 11.
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| Oct 6, 2001
(AP)--At age 40, seven-time NBA rebounding champion Dennis Rodman is attempting to making another comeback.
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| Oct 5, 2001
Moses Malone, one of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players, and legendary college coaches Mike Krzyzewski and John Chaney will be enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Friday, reports ESPN.
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| Oct 3, 2001
Former Net Jayson Williams has a new job.
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| Oct 2, 2001
Steve Wyche of the washington Post reports that Michael Jordan has put the rest of the league on notice.
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| Oct 1, 2001
Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald writes about the new rules and what the supports and opponents have to say about them.
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| Oct 1, 2001
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