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Nelson, Deng lead breakout-season candidates

By John Hollinger
ESPN Insider

Sunday, October 29, 2006

Opening week is here and with it comes all the usual manner of prognostications. We've already given you our thoughts on all the teams and the major awards, but today I want to delve into something else -- which players we should expect to make big steps forward this season. Every year, several players make the jump from relative anonymity to household names. Sometimes they're truly out of nowhere -- Boris Diaw last year, for instance. Other times, however, we can see it coming if we look clos ...

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