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Marcin Gortat on Love, Loneliness, and the Polish Struggle
[Ed. Note: Bartosz “Bart” Bielecki (@bart__92) is a 22-year-old Polish college student majoring in American Studies who loves basketball and, of course, keeps close tabs on Marcin Gortat. Today he...
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Drew Gooden for Team Finland at the FIBA World Cup? Plus Other Wizards and...
[UPDATE: Aug. 21, 2014, 11:07 am — Per an article from Finnish outlet svenska.yle.fi, it seems that Drew Gooden might not be on Finland’s final submitted roster of the 12 players who will play for the...
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3-on-3: Wall and Beal Cut from Team USA, Cassell’s Depature, and Continued...
Three questions, three answers, from three different people. TAI’s Adam Rubin, Rashad Mobley and Conor Dirks ponder John Wall and Bradley Beal getting cut from Team USA; Sam Cassell’s departure for...
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Pixels from Camp in Poland: A Stop in the Summer of Gortat
[Ed. Note: TAI’s Polish correspondent, Bart Bielecki, debuted at the end of July with a translation of a stellar Marcin Gortat interview with the Polish publication Gazeta Wyborcza.pl. This led to some...
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No Names and Pro Names of the 2014 Las Vegas NBA Summer League
[Note: In Part I of his Summer League Round-Up, Adam Rubin (@LedellsPlace) reviewed eight of the biggest names in Vegas. In Part II, he takes a look at 21 other players from all walks of pro basketball...
View ArticleNene Maintains as Brazil Falls to U.S. in Saturday Night Friendly
#NeneJams, we missed you. Brazil hung around just long enough to lose by 17 points, 78-95, against Team USA in a Chicago-hosted “friendly” on Saturday night. The game was interesting for the mere...
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Czech-ing Development: Tomas Satoransky vs Jiri Welsch
[Ed. Note: TAI’s Czech correspondent, Lukas Kuba (@luke_mellow), checks-in with an update on Tomas “Saty” Satoransky, current piece of Wizards Euro-stash who was drafted 32nd overall in 2012. –Kyle W.]...
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Olde Tyme Randy Wittman on a Shorter NBA Season
[image via HoopDistrict.net]Randy Wittman and I agree, in principle. Talk of shortening the NBA schedule from 82 games or decreasing the amount of minutes in a game should be halted. Whether we arrive...
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Jan Vesely on New Basketball Life, the Lost NBA, and All the Reasons Why
[Ed. Note: Jan Vesely, #NeverForget … right? Don’t worry, we won’t. Washington’s 2011 first round draft pick, sixth overall, and the former Czech version of the American version of a very poor man’s...
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Vines From China: Blatche and Crawford Defeat a Panda’s Friend
[The face one makes when they find themselves watching Jordan Crawford and Andray Blatche play professional basketball in China before 8 a.m. on a Sunday morning.]You haven’t lived until you’ve watched...
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Flip Saunders Name-Drops JaVale McGee, Pierre Responds on Twitter (VIDEO)
We could easily classify a number of things JaVale McGee did while coached by Flip Saunders as knucklehead moments. We could do the same for Randy Wittman. We could do the same for George Karl. And...
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Marcin Gortat on the Gortat Brand and 100 Ideas Per Hour
[Ed. Note: TAI’s Polish correspondent, Bartosz Bielecki (@bart__92), returns with—you guessed it—a translated Marcin Gortat interview. For the October-December 2014 issue of “Champion” magazine,...
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Go Deep, Young Man: How Shooting More 3-Pointers Can Set Bradley Beal Free
[Beach Coolin’ — via instagram/realdealbeal23]Bradley Beal was not selected as one of the five participants in the NBA All-Star Weekend 3-Point Shootout. No, he was not snubbed. Beal was not selected...
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Debating the Resurrection of Jesus (Shuttlesworth, that is)
[Ray Allen, truly a senior now.]DEBATE! Ray Allen is apparently, maybe, deciding whether he will be on the NBA free agent market. Maybe he’s narrowed his list down to seven teams, including (certainly...
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Stats Van Gundy: Pistons Head Honcho Talks Analytics
[Stan Van Gundy, G.] When an NBA coach comes to Washington, particularly one who’s willing to open up a little past coachspeak with the media, it’s always nice to pick their brain on the state of the...
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T-Minus 30 Days: A Playoff Snapshot for the Washington Wizards
[Game 3 #WittmanFace – via instagram.com/truthaboutit]It seems like only yesterday that Washington was in a free-fall, fans were calling for Randy Wittman’s head, and there was no end to how low the...
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The Closer — Starring Rasual Butler, Derek Fisher, and Pizza
New York Knicks Coach Derek Fisher is no stranger to end-of-the-game drama. As a Los Angeles Laker in 2004, Fisher did this with 0.4 seconds left in Game 5 of the Western Conference Semifinals to give...
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Wizards-Raptors 2015 NBA Playoffs Series Preview Q&A
The playoffs are just about here. Tomorrow, they said. Time for some thoughts, pixels, statistics, and etc.—Wizards vs. Raptors style. Joining TAI today is Blake Murphy (@BlakeMurphyODC), NBA news...
View ArticleFour Games + Four Wins = No More Raptors
Wiz sweep Raptors! Good for Paul Pierce … "No more going through customs"…. YAY WIZARDS!!! #Wizards #WizRaptors pic.twitter.com/75ib7g2L7F — Aly Lewnes (@alewnes7) April 27, 2015 The Wizards swept the...
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Why One Guy Wrote-In Paul Pierce for President of Poland
[Paul Pierce, via instagram.com/truthaboutit] Due to the lack of better candidates, I voted @paulpierce34 for the President of Poland today. pic.twitter.com/r58AYi0j6B — Bartosz Bielecki (@bart__92)...
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