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Hoops hotbed in California

By Scott Howard-Cooper
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, October 5, 2001

P.S.: The NBA season has started out West too. In a basketball world that has gone You Know Who crazy -- season tickets going at Mach I in Washington, individual tickets zooming everywhere else, mourning in Chicago that this could happen in something other than a Bulls uniform, more aggravation in Charlotte since he originally wanted to buy into the Hornets and that would have meant he'd now be playing for the Hornets -- the state of California is left to quietly move along with the best te ...

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