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Shaq's Cleveland debut opens season

By Chris Sheridan
ESPN.com

Monday, August 3, 2009

The schedule for the 2009-10 NBA season is out, as is Marc Stein for the week. In place of my vacationing colleague, I'm going to take you through the schedule's highlights. But first, a couple of interesting factoids: Sure, they might have pushed the eventual-champion Lakers to seven games in the conference semifinals, but with Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady on the mend and Ron Artest's having flown the coop, the Rockets now apparently have no national appeal at all. None. Their total number of ...

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