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Since 1992, seven pure point guards have been named first-team All-NBA: Mark Price, John Stockton, Tim Hardaway, Gary Payton, Jason Kidd, Steve Nash, and Chris Paul.

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Come on in, uncertainty. Pull up a courtside seat, doubt. Glad you guys could make it.

This is what happens when the team you cover goes out on the first round: You find yourself with time on your hands.

This article was originally published in the Inquirer on February 21, 2001. Basking in the luxury of holding the league's best record despite an abundance of injuries, the 76ers still find themselves in the position of having to keep up with the Joneses as tomorrow's 6 p.m. NBA trading deadline nears.

You get to be a nine-time NBA All-Star, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, and an NBA champion, and you surely worked your tail off.

Andrew Cook didn't know if he would make it. Not just in life, but also on a dream weekend getaway that may be one of the biggest reasons he is alive today.

If the Magic win they would have turned the page and continue to progress toward a championship.

I know this will only feed the conspiracy theorists' appetites, but I think the Los Angeles Lakers will win the NBA title in June because, well, it's their turn... by Jake Lloyd 27 reads I know this will only feed the conspiracy theorists' appetites, but I think the Los Angeles Lakers will win the NBA title in June because, well, it's their turn.

He wasn't done yet. Even after Dwyane Wade piled up 27 points, dished 10 assists, snagged three steals and rescued the Heat again from a deficit at Charlotte recently, his heroics still weren't finished for the night.

Dominique Wilkins, perhaps the best player to ever wear an Atlanta Hawks uniform, knows his team will have to double-team Miami's Dwyane Wade in their first-round playoff series that starts Sunday.

WHEN DEREK SMITH decided he wanted to form his own club basketball team this year for Oakland-area youth, he found a powerful partner to help realize his dream - none other than one of the city's leading hoops legends, Gary Payton.

That was an unbelivably domniating performance, capped by Wade's steal from Salmons and the runner from behind the 3 pt arc as time expired in Double OT.

As much as neither wanted to admit to even the slightest bit of dislike for each other, there's something between Shaquille O'Neal and Dwyane Wade that has somehow remained trapped in the confines of the locker ...

Even Mike D'Antoni, the NBA's coaching god of fun, sometimes has enough of Nate Robinson's antics.

Basketball-reference.com recently started a blog called Keltner's List, which examined the careers of past and current players to determine their legacies.

Over a period spanning nearly four decades, many of the biggest names in pro basketball were comforted knowing that Ron Culp had their backs.

Dwyane Wade is walking through Championship Alley, the mural-draped hallway leading to the court from the Heat locker room at AmericanAirlines Arena that celebrates the team's 2006 NBA championship.

In the 1984 NBA Finals, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar took a rebound and threw a 60-foot outlet to James Worthy, who tossed it to a streaking Kurt Rambis.

You could see this one coming, right? Gary Payton's move from the basketball court to the broadcast studio is about as predictable as Shawn Kemp flushing one of Payton's alley-oop passes when both men played ...