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NBA season preview, Part I

By Bill Simmons
Page 2

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

NBA Preview: Part II At the Nuggets-Clippers preseason game on Friday night, there was a level of serenity that I hadn't remembered. Both teams were just playing ball. So I'm watching and watching and thinking to myself, "All right, what's different about this game?" Then I figured it out: Thanks to the new "Rasheed Wallace" rule, players weren't bitching and moaning after every foul call. By coming up with this wrinkle, was David Stern hoping to divert attention away from the fallout from ...

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