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Good commentary on NBA personnel.

Another huge mistake, selling the New Jersey Nets to Bruce Ratner. He just selected another 2/3. Ummm, don’t Vince Carter and Richard Jefferson play the exact same positions? What the heck is going on here?

I feel really sorry for the teams that passed on Gerald Green, Danny Granger, and Joey Graham. They will be pretty darn good.

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I'd forgotten about this move by Toronto.

Many people forget that Toronto did not draft Vince Carter but instead, traded for him on draft night with Golden State who selected him with the 5th overall pick. This was a great pick for Toronto because in essence, it helped them land Vince Carter plus some additional cash for the team. Dirk Nowitzki (drafted 9th overall by Milwaukee) and Paul Pierce (drafted 10th overall by Boston) were the only notables after Carter that have become superstars from that draft year.

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This blog is a little part of the change!

The game was great fun, but what struck me most was that I wanted to share this experience with my displaced Raptor fan friends. I started out by taking photos of the creative ways fans expressed their anti-Vince Carter sentiment, but that didn't provide a real sense of the intensity in the building. So I started taking short videos of the action with my digital camera. I've been advised not to post the videos, but I've posted three MP3s of the fans at the arena: "Car-ter......

 

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There are two kinds of people: those who blend in and those who can't.

Barkley, on Toronto guard Vince Carter: "When you have that much talent, you don't get to say 'I just want to blend in.' That's not the way it works. It's up to the great players to make the other scrubs better. It's up to Vince to put his teammates on his back and carry them. That's the responsibility of being a great player. Kevin Garnett can't just say he wants to blend in with the other guys. Shaquille O'Neal can't say that; Allen Iverson can't say that; and Tracy McGrady can't say that. Great players have to play great and they have...

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