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SPECIAL WEEKEND EDITION Why the West must be won

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com

Friday, February 2, 2007

Editor's note: ESPN.com senior NBA writer Marc Stein supplies each item for this around-the-league notebook edition of the Daily Dime. Brace yourselves for something really profound: What a difference a year makes! OK, OK. We can say it with a touch more invention and relevance: What a difference bad starts make! Imagine, if you will, that the Mavericks and Suns didn't combine to go 0-4 and 1-5, respectively, in the first couple weeks of November. I imagine we'd be dealing daily with 70 Win ...

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