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How Did NBA Commentary Get This Dumb?

NO RESPECT

Sports media is in a sorry state if the league’s most dynamic team on the court is deemed “uninteresting” by those whose job it is to cover the NBA finals.

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Sometime last week, while Denver waited for the Boston Celtics to lose to the Miami Heat so they could face off against them in the NBA Finals, Chris Mannix, a second-to-third-tier basketball writer, went on the Rich Eisen Show.

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