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Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

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  • Established 07/29/08
  • Group Tags: basketball, NBA, college, AAU, high school, international, Olympics, FIBA, hoops
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Here's the deal. I got six people plus me from the Atroo to sign up, and instead of plugging the holes with 3 people from FN, I decided to make it Atroo vs. FN and have 7 FN-but-not-in-the-Atroo users to join Fantasy Basketball. I'm asking the Haven first because these are the more basketball-smart people. If we can't get seven from here, I'll extend the invites to select FN users.It's on ESPN.com, and the draft isn't set because I'm waiting for a full league. Also, the scoring is Rotisserie, I was thinking about changing it but apparently I can't. If you want…
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I know most of the talk in basketball lately has been about the Redeem Team's quest for redemption and a Gold Medal. The USA came out victorious over Spain and reached their goal. For this blog though I have chosen to talk about some of the important games on the NBA schedule for 2008-2009. October 28th- Opening nightWhat more can you ask for on an opening night than the double header there is that night. LeBron James and the Cavaliers go to Boston on Ring Night to face the defending champion Celtics. The 2nd half of the double header is Greg Oden's debut (hopefully) against Kobe…
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With the Beijing Olympics in the books and part of history, the central focus for the United States -- at least outside of the controversies swirling around Chinese involvement in genocide, 16-year old gymnasts that look 12, and the Georgia/Russia war -- was what will become of the Men's Basketball team, dubbed the "Redeem Team". The team itself named it such due to the disappointing and embarrassing finish to the 2004 Athens games they suffered, which involved losing three-times. They fell in their opening game to the Olympics to Puerto Rico 92-73, and went on to fall too…
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I'm back, so stop stealing my bloggers, David! Unless, of course, in my time gone, they were stolen from you as well.
Fell free to Blog on the NBA NATION until GOAT comes back, let me know and I can give you rights.
Hey, I guess this group tanked with the rest of the site...it's a shame because this was up-and-coming...
Cheezhead 10/09/08
I hope not, lakers. Supposedly the group message boards are coming back soon, and we'll get the group clicking again.
Hyped78 09/22/08
Is this group dead?
Yeah, they do. I basically ran this group through the message board and now I...can't do that.
I posted that before the mods screwed up the site.

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