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Ball Don't Lie:
Denver
at Chicago
Houston
and Dallas is too easy. They were in a seven game series a few years back,
they play each other four times a year, both teams are winners. They may not do
much winning in May, these days, but you can count on a good game. Veteran
savvy. All that noise. Not too much noise.
I'm more interested in Denver's
visit to Chicago.
Just about every year, at this time, it's Chicago
visiting Denver,
ready to get spanked. Absolutely dismantled.
Then, over the last two Februaries, the Nuggies have gone
out to Chicago
directly after the trade deadline to watch a new-look Bulls, post-trade
deadline, tear them apart. The home team has won the last six games of this
pairing.
Now things have been flipped around. No new trades, Denver takes in Chicago
in the fall, not the other way around, with both teams missing their starting
power forwards. Tyrus Thomas(notes) and Kenyon Martin(notes) are out.
I'd say that both teams were missing their starting shooting
gu...
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