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NBA has its difficulties as well

By John Buccigross
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, May 20, 2005

Idle thoughts from an idle hockey guy as the hockey world idles in the breakdown lane. ... • I used to believe that thinking and aching about one's personal past was the only way to pay homage to it: That the only proper way we legitimized and respected past events was to ponder them, relive them, and salute them in our minds with prolonged and vivid clarity. Otherwise, I thought, what was the use of fretting over and caring about present and future actions and events, if they were ...

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