The first domino fell before the season, when Oklahoma City sent James Harden to Houston instead of signing him to a big-money extension, and more are sure to follow.
With the clock running down at the end of the game, McHale told Harden to "go ahead and shoot it if you like, " but Harden opted to take the shot-clock violation.
"It is unlikely that we will ever know what caused the transmissions to cease, but it is time to harden up to the reality that the penguin has returned to the anonymity from which he emerged, " he told the news agency.
The tests show that it is possible to harden a PC to repel attack.
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Section 248 leaves the responsibility of securing the power grid in the hands of the same owner-operators who have failed to harden their networks up to this point.
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Hadoop engineers and contributors can work as hard as they want to harden Hadoop for the enterprise, but without the necessary skill set to put it into production, the efforts would be for naught.
Security firms are working to harden networks against hackers, and members of Congress are promoting legislation to let the government work more closely with Internet service providers without opening up the companies to lawsuits or infringing on civil liberties.
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We see it in Middle East, as the conflict between Arabs and Jews seems to harden.
Mrs Merkel wants to harden the text with new sanctions for those who ignore ECJ rulings.
They expect this support to harden, should President Boris Yeltsin die or leave office.
Mr Berlusconi's resistance to structural reform appeared to harden as the country's problems deepened.
The alliance's initial response to the stiffening of Serbia's terms was to harden its own position.
However, it might take a lot of work to harden systems and ensure they were adequately protected.
He and other security vendors say airports have been slow to harden their airwaves because of cost.
The filament is designed to harden as it dries, so an object can be created layer by layer.
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"We all felt the change in atmosphere after the decision and it seemed to harden their players and their focus, " Gannon said.
Prudence is not always a virtue: the instinct to save for a rainy day seems only to harden when the rains set in.
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has said he expects the debate to harden on the right, and accepts that some Socialist deputies may abstain from voting.
The incident is likely to harden both countries' positions on Kashmir.
The event took place on a course that had to be sprinkled with fertiliser to harden up the snow, after days of rain and sleet in Whistler.
He sources the eggs through a registered farm or aviary (emus and their eggs are protected in the wild), then treats the eggs with a special resin to harden the shell.
Finishing things off: 2 millimeters of lining leather, Vibram rubber soles, a steel shank, a leather heel counter and a styrene toe box to harden the front and prevent nasty stubs.
In the design, there are no corridors as such, and no separate service spaces: nothing in other words to harden an organic whole and break up its curving films of glass.
One final thought - just as the Lib Dems have in recent weeks begun to harden their party's position on immigration, I gather a similar shift in their position on welfare might be on the horizon.
Ginobili could have taken the shot, but with the Thunder's James Harden closing fast, he took one dribble to his left and drew Harden away.
The rays can damage satellite electronics, and if current solar wind conditions persist, engineers would have to take this into account when deciding how to "harden" their spacecraft.
And when it comes to scary, Marcia Gay Harden's born-again proselytizer is fearsome enough to convince Drayton and his clique to take their chances with the beasties.
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