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Twenty reasons the NBA is fan-tastic

By Eric Neel
Page 2 columnist

Tuesday, October 28, 2003

There's always this moment just after baseball season ends when my tanks are running low and I think maybe I don't have another NBA season in me. Eighty-two is a lot of games. November to June is a lot of calendar. My wife likes to say, in fact, that the NBA season is not a season at all. "It's coal into diamonds," she says. "It's rings on a tree stump, it's a Coppola shoot in the jungle, it's waiting for a bad haircut to grow out, it's reading 'War and Peace' in the original." I like the g ...

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