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SPECIAL WEEKEND EDITIONHollywood needs more drama

By Marc Stein ESPN.com

Friday, December 16, 2005

Editor's note: ESPN.com senior NBA writer Marc Stein supplies each item for this weekly around-the-league notebook edition of the Dime. You have to be a dice-roller, a certifiable risk-taker, to make a sincere run at the most tantalizing undependable talent since Micheal Ray Richardson. You have to be more than that, actually. To trust enough in Ron Artest to trade for him? You have to be desperate, too. That's why the Indiana Pacers, despite trading dialogue with at least two-thirds ...

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