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Rick Cordella: Very, very small amount people were actually in Chicago stadium, you know, hearing “Sirius” by the Alan Parsons Project and “6’6 from North Carolina”, etc. The reason why people know it so well, because NBC showed it. And so I think that’s part of it, too. Like, let’s get in and show the atmosphere. Make this seem like a big game. And so you’ll see that. And you … [Read more...] about

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With the return of the NBA on NBC, the network has given their first hint that they would like to bring the feeling of those days gone by. In an interview with Alex Sherman and CNBC Sport, NBC Sports president Rick Cordella cited the intros of the Jordan Era Bulls as one of the ways in which the network hopes to bring a big game feel to its NBA coverage, specifically for their … [Read more...] about

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Chicago made LaVine available for the better part of two seasons until Sacramento lasered in on the former All-Star to headline the Kings’ return for De’Aaron Fox. Yet it didn’t take long after Sacramento hired Scott Perry as its new general manager for Perry’s appearance on The Hoops Genius podcast last season — when, as an ESPN analyst, he noted that LaVine “to this point has … [Read more...] about

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The Rockets led the NBA with a 31.7-offensive rebounding percentage, according to Basketball Reference, which is the highest rate in the league in the last decade and highest since the 2011-12 Bulls. Once upon a time that might not have been so unusual — the leaguewide offensive rebounding rate was 30.2 percent for the 1998-99 season but Houston is the first team to cross the … [Read more...] about

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