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• Two new starters for Game 3: Pittman and Battier

  LeBron James didn’t really want to start at power forward. So much for that. James will slide to that spot, now that Shane Battier has been inserted as a starter instead of Udonis Haslem. And, in the bigger surprise, Dexter Pittman will replace Ronny Turiaf at center. This makes sense [...]
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• Dwyane Wade working glass to find shooting touch

  Some statistics aren’t what you’d expect. Dwyane Wade actually shot with the same accuracy from 16 to 23 feet (37 percent) this season as he did last and his 43.8 percent clip from 10 to 15 feet was his highest in the six seasons that HoopData.com tracks. Of late, though, [...]
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• LeBron on the Lakers: It was the right play

  Kobe Bryant butchered the last few minutes of the Lakers’ Wednesday night loss to Oklahoma City — committing turnovers, taking terrible shots — but, naturally, the national narrative is mostly about the shot he didn’t take. Instead, Steve Blake took it, wide open from the right corner, after a pass [...]
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• Who most needs to give the Heat more?

  This is a imperfect team. That’s been obvious for a while, but it becomes more so when one of the three top players on a top-heavy roster is absent, and especially when that player is one for whom there is no able stand-in. Dwyane Wade and LeBron James can do [...]
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