Britt Robson: NBA Power Rankings
With about two weeks left before the Feb. 24 trading deadline, the competition for the bottom playoff spots has intensified in both conferences. The deadline and the postseason chase are linked because...
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With the All-Star break and the trading deadline nearly upon us, I can't remember a time in the last 10 years when the consensus on who will win the championship has been more fragmented. The Spurs...
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The superstars headed East at the trading deadline, with Deron Williams leaving Utah for New Jersey and Carmelo Anthony going from Denver to New York. But the fallout from perhaps the most active...
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In the first three and a half months of the season, the Lakers had bouts of indifferent defense, saw their thin bench exposed too often for comfort and exercised patience with Ron Artest's shooting...
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The Heat rebounded from a wretched five-game slump. Dallas, Boston and Orlando lost at least two games apiece. The surging Thunder activated center Kendrick Perkins. And the Nuggets continued to win...
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The hallmark of a well-run franchise is putting players in a position where they are best able to succeed. In that sense, general manager Sam Presti's moves in building the Thunder have been remarkably...
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With just two weeks left in the regular season, the Lakers have emerged as the consensus favorite to win their third consecutive championship. Along with being 15-1 since the All-Star break, the Lakers...
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The Nuggets' resurgence is the best story in the NBA, and there is the tantalizing prospect that it is going to get much, much better in the weeks ahead. With Sunday's road victory against a Lakers...
View ArticleBritt Robson: NBA regular-season grades
The most important regular-season grades in the NBA are obviously the standings that determine playoff berths and seedings. But it is also interesting, and hopefully revealing, to consider other...
View ArticleBritt Robson: Thunder beat Grizzlies at their own game
OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Thunder's steady transformation from a high-flying team led by scorers Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook into a deep roster of lunch-bucket bruisers took another step forward...
View ArticleBritt Robson: Northwest Division preview
By Britt Robson 2011-12 NBA Preview: Northwest Division How They'll Finish 1 Oklahoma City Thunder 2010-11 Record: 55-27; lost to Mavericks in conference finals Top Addition: Reggie Jackson | Biggest...
View ArticleBritt Robson: NBA preseason Power Rankings
NBA Preseason Power Rankings By Britt Robson Under any circumstances, the preseason Power Rankings are a crapshoot, an alchemistical jumble of hard data and gut instincts. In the lockout-shortened...
View ArticleBritt Robson: Good and bad of Rubio on display in first two games
"Point guards are delivered from God." That's what a former top-five pick said about his position at his introductory news conference with the Minnesota Timberwolves. The year was 1996 and the speaker...
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NBA Power Rankings By Britt Robson It was a particularly dramatic Monday night in the land of the Power Rankings, as the NBA's last two undefeated teams -- conference favorites Miami and Oklahoma City...
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NBA Power Rankings By Britt Robson Patient maturity. That's not a very snappy slogan, but it best describes the 76ers' slow, steady blossoming. The patience was necessary after the Sixers lost 13 of...
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NBA Power Rankings By Britt Robson 1. Chicago Bulls (12-3) Last Week: 2 Even Monday's loss at Memphis while Derrick Rose rested his injured toe can't bump the Bulls from the top spot, given that...
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The Atlanta Hawks should be folding and fading down the standings any day now. That's been the dismissive conventional wisdom about the team from the "Highlight Factory" for more than a year. It's not...
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There is a very simple reason to put the Heat at the top of this week's Power Rankings: They are the only team not to lose in the last week, going 5-0 to improve to 8-1 since dropping three consecutive...
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In this condensed season of constant travel and back-to-back-to-backs, the aging stars with their proud traditions of success in Boston and San Antonio were supposed to be close to road kill by now, or...
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The Mavericks began this season old, slow and 0-3, getting routed at home by Miami and Denver and losing a close game at Oklahoma City. Since then, despite subpar seasons from Dirk Nowitzki, Jason Kidd...
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