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Here's an article and a short video of Kobe dunking in practice.

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports....oose-for-a-dunk-during-lakers-practice-video/

"Jeremy Lin takes sane approach to his opportunity with the Lakers

If you ever meet Jeremy Lin, don't bring up the "L" word.

He doesn't like it. Definitely tries to create distance from it.

That wild run in New York might as well have happened three decades, not three seasons, ago.

The Lakers guard now considers himself more Linteresting than Linsanity, in case you missed his online spoof of the debonair man in the popular beer commercial.

He'd rather be known as a hard worker than a flash-in-the-Big-Apple-pan who once had 38 points and seven assists against the Lakers in a frenzied, unbelievably overjoyed Madison Square Garden.


Lin was never arrogant — too much time in the Development League and too many appearances on the waiver wire took care of that — but the trek from...

http://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1350057

This sounds like BS to me.

Doesn't sound good for X.

I read an article recently that mentioned the Pistons incorporated Hand checking in the 04 Finals.

I wasn't sure if this was true. I don't really remember.

Was it? i know hand checking officially stopped in 04

read some people discussing it and some were saying that they were running the zone and hand checking,

others saying the hand checking wasn't relevant because they weren't hand checking hard enough.