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Nothing personal, strictly business

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com

Friday, February 20, 2004

It can't be easy. It really can't. It simply can't be easy being an NBA fan today, and not only if you're a Boston fan trying to understand why Danny Ainge just had to have Chucky Atkins. After the eighth major trade of the season -- the eighth! -- the initial reaction here at Stein Line HQ was to write how spoiled we all are. How we are more pampered than my five-month-old son Alexander The Greatest, who, within days of his birth, was already the proud owner of an autographed and personalized ...

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