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		<title>Kobe Agrees To Play In Italy During The NBA Lockout</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By KFC posted September 30th From BarstoolSports.com (NEWSER) – Kobe Bryant won’t be resting on his laurels during the NBA lockout. The Los Angeles Laker has verbally agreed to a $3 million contract to play with Italian club Virtus Bologna for the first 40 days of the Italian league season, a source tells the AP. Bryant grew up in Italy and has been there this week for endorsement deals. He is due back in the US for labor talks today but is expected to return to Italy next week with a work visa, according to the source. ”We have reached an economic deal,” Virtus president Claudio Sabatini told a local radio station. “There’s still some things to arrange but at this point I’m very optimistic. I would say it’s 95 percent done.” A person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press on Friday that the sides have settled on a $3 million contract for the opening 40 days of the Italian league season. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal has still not been signed. David Stern is about to go Bear Jew up in this motherfucker! Because once Kobe rolls its gonna be straight up dominos. Like Eastern Europe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feast or Famine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you less educated folks out there who may not be familiar with the old idiom &#8220;feast or famine&#8221;, it means; either too much of something or not enough of something. If you&#8217;re a fan of the Orlando Magic, you probably already know where I&#8217;m going with this. Yes, that &#8220;something&#8221; I&#8217;m referring to is EFFORT. The Magic have been wildly inconsistent through the first half of this season, and much of that has to do with the lack of effort and intensity they bring to the court on any given night. After returning home from a disastrous road trip that concluded with a disconcerting loss to the Los Angeles Lakers, in what was &#8216;suppose&#8217; to be a chance to avenge their defeat in the NBA Finals last season. The Magic apparently channeled their inner &#8220;Gooch&#8221;(pardon my reference to the old sit-com &#8220;Different Strokes&#8221; and the character who routinely harassed poor Arnold &#8220;what you talkin&#8217; bout Willis&#8221;) and took their aggression out on two clearly overmatched opponents in the Indiana Pacers and Sacramento Queens&#8230;..Oooops, I meant Kings. Before moving on, I&#8217;d like to address the Laker game if I may. I was honestly expecting Orlando to at least [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Matter Where You Go; There Your Are!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Magic took their show on the road hoping to capitalize on the momentum of their blowout victory against the surging Atlanta Hawks last Saturday. Things began nicely, with a convincing win in Sacramento against the injury riddled Kings. Then reality struck once again on Wednesday night in Denver as the Nuggets dissected the Magic en route to a 115-97 trouncing over Orlando. Playing short-handed without their leading scorer Vince &#8220;Cupcake&#8221; Carter for the secong straight night, Orlando simply had no answer for the physical play of the Nuggets. Dwight &#8220;The Coward&#8221; Howard struggled mightily against the likes of Kenyon Martin and Chris &#8220;Birdman&#8221; Andersen, managing a meager 8 points on 1-7 shooting. A far cry from the 30 points and 16 rebounds he collected the night before in Sacramento. In what may have been the funniest sound bite I&#8217;ve ever heard from a player came from Dwight Howard after the loss to Denver in which he stated &#8220;the Nuggets took away the inside game and FORCED the Magic to shoot jump shots&#8221;. Excuse me if I&#8217;m missing something here, but have you ever seen anyone having to force Rashard Lewis, Vince Carter, Ryan Anderson or JJ Redick(let me stop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All That Jazz</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Orlando Magic, fresh from a night off, strolled into Utah to take on a Jazz team who just suffered a debilitating loss the night before to the World Champion Los Angeles Lakers. A perfect scenario for the Magic to continue on their winning ways. As expected the Jazz looked sluggish early on and the Magic were hitting on all cylinders, building what you would think would be an insurmountable 18 point lead. Well, think again folks, because the always tough at home Utah Jazz had other plans. I can&#8217;t help but think that the momentum change was spurred on when Rashard Lewis pulled a Scottie Pippen in the 2nd quarter; refusing coach Van Gundy&#8217;s orders to get back in the game. Lewis, saddled with 2 fouls, later claimed he felt Ryan Anderson had it going and didn&#8217;t want to interrupt his hot streak.  Unbelievable as it sounds for a player making a cool $118 millions bucks to refuse a coaches instruction. Stan Van Gundy himself, who has coached some questionable characters in his career, claims he has never had a player question his authority in this manner. Even if Rashard Lewis thought he was being unselfish, is this the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magic Meltdown</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Magic Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night was a classic example of a good team letting their inferior opponent stick around too long and having the rug pulled out from underneath them. The Orlando Magic appeared to have their 13th consecutive win against the Miami Heat all but sealed up midway through the 4th quarter, until you guessed it, Mr. Dwayne Wade himself took matters into his own hand. As much as I&#8217;d love to put the onus on Vince &#8220;Cupcake&#8221; Carter, I have to give the &#8220;Goat&#8221; award to Dwight Howard and the rest of the Magic frontline. They were clearly out hustled and showed zero heart or intensity down the stretch. It looks as if the recurrent theme of the Magic&#8217;s season is going to be their lack of killer instinct. Until Vince Carter and Rashard Lewis realize referee&#8217;s are not going to blow the whistle on weak finger roll drives to the basket, or Dwight Howard starts to make critical free throws, the Magic will continue to falter in close meaningful games. Dwayne Wade&#8217;s humiliating block of Vince &#8220;Cupcake&#8221; Carters 4th quarter fade away drive to the basket, was reminiscent of last years finals series against the Los Angeles Lakers, when Kobe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s talk some NBA.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 04:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeezNuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The finals have been good on both ends this year and there has been a lot of discussion and debate over a lot of crap. I think it&#8217;s time for me to toss my opinions out there on the whole thing and I really don&#8217;t care what anyone thinks. I&#8217;ll start with the Lebron/Kobe debate. Kobe is still better than Lebron for one reason. He is a closer.  In my opinion, there is way too much talk about sharing the ball, game ending shots and officiating in these games. The thing that still stands out to me is this. Kobe finishes games like Lebron doesn&#8217;t right now. The ball sharing argument is stupid to me because of this. When it is time to finish off a game, you&#8217;re best player needs to do it. Kobe shares the ball early in the game but in the last couple minutes, when it matters, he has it and finishes things off. Lebron doesn&#8217;t finish games this way. He is still looking to dish the ball even though he is rolling right through the lane and that is a sign of a guy who doesn&#8217;t think he can do it. He hit the big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angry NBA Wednesday.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 01:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was an odd night in the NBA last night. A couple of not so close games has some odd behavior attached to them. The Magic got handled fairly easy by the Celtics in game two, but it was Rafer Alston&#8217;s girly behavior that caught my attention. It&#8217;s not shocking that the Celtics came out with a lot more fire and intensity last night. They finally had some time to recover from the wild Bulls series they had in round one. They also needed to take that game to avoid going to Orlando down 0-2. What surprised me was Alston. Eddie House was going off last night (he finished with 31) and it finally got to Alston. It was funny but will probably land Alston on the sideline for game 3. After Eddie House hit a three pointer (in Alston&#8217;s face) Alston decided to slap him in the head as turned to run down the court. That&#8217;s right, he &#8220;slapped&#8221; him. He&#8217;s lucky House didn&#8217;t turn and pummel him, but even House had to laugh at the girly attack Rafer laid on him. It was so pathetic that the ref&#8217;s didn&#8217;t eject Alston and gave he and House both technical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jameer Nelson isn’t getting any love.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Magic are tearing through the NBA right now with a 33-8 record and look like serious title contenders right now. The improvement on both sides of the court is relevant to everyone picking up their game. Turk is what he always has been, a cold blooded beast that attacks other teams defense&#8217;s with the reckless abandon of a football player. Dwight Howard is dominating inside the paint and has dramatically improved his defense, namely his shot blocking skills. Rashard Lewis has gotten with the program and has shown a much tougher side to him on both ends of the floor. Courtney Lee is doing right now what we expected from Mickael Pietrus and when Pietrus is healthy again the bench will get that much deeper. Aside from Lee, we&#8217;ve seen all of these guys play at this level before during their careers. The one guy that has really taken giant steps forward is Jameer Nelson, and that has translated into the Magic taking a giant step forward. Nelson is having a career year for the real Orlando Blue Man Group and is bringing the team with him. If anyone said they didn&#8217;t notice before, the Laker game should&#8217;ve gotten [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magic sweep out West.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Orlando capped of their 4-0 road trip last night with another convincing win, a 106-88 victory in Denver. The Nuggets are a good team but the Magic turned it up in the fourth quarter to run away with it. Turk, Nelson and Lewis took it to the Nuggets combining for 77 of the Magic&#8217;s 106 points. This win was impressive because of the night before. After the game they played the night before against the Lakers, you could see a letdown game coming. They didn&#8217;t let that happen and are establishing themselves as THE force to be reckoned with in the NBA. They have the best road record in the league and have done so while beating teams like the Lakers, Nuggets, Spurs, Hawks and so on in their buildings. That Laker game was everything I thought it would be by the way. Jameer Nelson stepped up again with 28 points, which included 15 in the fourth quarter. Howard showed Andrew Bynum that he still has some growing up to do as he dominated the paint despite getting into early foul trouble. It was an outstanding game and I come away even more impressed than I already was. It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I can&#8217;t wait for Magic/Lakers round 2!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not going to bother going over it too much because I&#8217;m sure everyone out there saw the aerial bombing that the Magic dropped on Sacramento on Tuesday, but it was amazing to watch. Normally when teams get hot like that you just sit back and wait for them to cool down and see what happens from there. It never happened and the Magic embarrassed the Kings at home 139-107. It was awesome and got me extremely excited for tomorrow&#8217;s game with the Lakers. I could be setting myself up for a huge letdown, but I&#8217;m excited none the less. I can&#8217;t wait to see if they can keep the hot shooting going, how Courtney Lee does defensively against Kobe Bryant and if the Magic can beat one of the NBA&#8217;s best on their home floor. If they pull out the win I think it go a long way toward this team believing that they can go all the way and give them a little more swagger in future match-ups against Cleveland and Boston. This team has come a long way this year and there is no ceiling on what they can do. I once again encourage everyone to watch [...]]]></description>
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