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Mavericks GM gets hero’s welcome from Lakers fans following Luka Doncic trade

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NBA general managers usually don’t evaluate their own trades based on the reaction of opposing fans, but it’s easy to wonder if Mavericks GM Nico Harrison might have been having at least a few second thoughts as he attended his team’s first game against the star he exiled to Los Angeles, Luka Doncic, on Tuesday … Read more

The NBA Dunk Contest is just as good as ever. What’s changed is the world around it

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SAN FRANCISCO — Basketball loves revisionist history. From softening big, heartbreaking losses in hindsight or myth-making a game where someone was sick and rallied to play into an analogous-but-makes-zero-sense-out-of-context, colloquial short-hand (I’m not saying the Flu Game doesn’t deserve it), the sport’s chroniclers have never struggled to rearrange reality just so for the sake of … Read more