Sometimes if I finish in time I can take my son either to swimming or Tae Kwan Do and my daughter may have a basketball game, so I go to that.

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"They have played tremendous basketball over a four-game period, which is not always that easy to do, " Boeheim said of his Orange.

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"I really do believe that, based on the talent on display this weekend that I have seen we are in a golden age of basketball, that the appreciation of our game is really as high as it has been in recent memory, " said Stern, who has now run the NBA for 25 years.

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It's no accident it hasn't really caught on elsewhere (the annual NFL game in London notwithstanding) whereas baseball and basketball have at least a claim to a global following and participation.

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Over the past two months a span in which the team has played .500 basketball the Knicks have been a stubborn bunch that seemingly refuses to alter its game plan despite previous opponents having laid out a blueprint that details precisely how they can be beaten.

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