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Phil Taylor: Thunder will get test from Grizzlies in first-round series
Matchup: No. 2 Oklahoma City Thunder (59-23) vs. No. 7 Memphis Grizzlies (50-32) Season Series: Thunder won 3-1 Efficiency Rankings: Oklahoma City (7th offense, 5th defense), Memphis (17th offense, 8th...
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Phil Taylor: On off nights for both star point guards, Chris Paul did just...
OAKLAND -- Chris Paul had a hamstring that nagged him. Steph Curry had a team full of Clippers who did the same. Two of the best point guards in the NBA didn't really look like it for most of Thursday...
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Phil Taylor: Time for Silver to do Stern's dirty work with Sterling
When I first saw the headlines about Donald Sterling and racism Friday night, I assumed it was old news, another compilation of the Clipper owner's well-documented history of racist comments, attitudes...
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Phil Taylor: Stephen Curry, Warriors rout distracted Clippers in Game 4
OAKLAND -- They took their warm-up jackets off and dropped them on the floor at center court, at once the perfect symbol of protest and an ominous sign of what was to come. As hard as they tried, the...
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Phil Taylor: Warriors win ugly to extend compelling series with Clippers to...
OAKLAND -- Of course there will be a Game 7. How could there not? This weird, disjointed, political, contentious, compelling series seems destined to wring every drop of energy, emotional and...
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Phil Taylor: NBA playoffs preview: Thunder-Clippers rich with intrigue
Matchup: No. 2 Oklahoma City Thunder (59-23) vs. No. 3 Los Angeles Clippers (57-25) Season series: Split 2-2 Efficiency rankings: Oklahoma City (7th offense, 5th defense), Los Angeles (1st offense, 8th...
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Phil Taylor: Warriors owed Mark Jackson more on way out door
Mark Jackson deserved better. That is not necessarily to say he deserved to remain as Warriors coach. Joe Lacob and his ownership group paid $450 million for the right to hire or fire any coach they...
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Phil Taylor: Sterling digs deeper hole with repulsive CNN interview
You kept expecting one of Donald Sterling's handlers to walk on the set of the stomach-turning, head-scratching, jaw-dropping interview he was giving to Anderson Cooper, call a halt to everything and...
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Phil Taylor: Heat-Spurs Finals rematch reflects evolution of offenses
Jerry Colangelo couldn't take it anymore. It was early 2001, and watching NBA games, once one of his greatest pleasures, had become a source of constant frustration. He had observed too many defenses...
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Phil Taylor: Greatness of Duncan-Popovich lost on them, but not us
With just seven words, Gregg Popovich told you all you really need to know about his enduringly successful partnership with Tim Duncan. The Spurs' coach spoke them in a press conference after Game 4 of...
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