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Entertaining Simmons article
« on: March 05, 2014, 06:46:46 PM »

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http://grantland.com/the-triangle/nba-bag-volume-2-10-steps-to-tanking-perfection/

I particularly enjoyed the portions about Silver and Stern. Enjoy.
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Awesome Articles as always!
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Love the hatchet job of Stern at the end.

He's absolutely right that Stern held on about 5 years too long. 
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I like his argument that one danger of tanking is following the same path as ML Carr enabling Antoine Walker, allowing him to become the monster we remember.
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