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Sixteen teams will begin the playoffs, but only five have anywhere close to a legitimate chance to win the championship.

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While the Heat players spend their days on the Miami beaches and then crush their opponents at night, a few hundred miles to the north a different Florida scenario is playing itself out.

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Does winning help LeBron James rehabilitate his image? Do you like him now that his team has figured it out and is favored to win its second consecutive championship?

Larry’s NBA Power Ratings

How about a little love for the Denver Nuggets?

Burdened with a road-heavy early-season schedule, Denver stumbled out of the blocks before getting things together. Now, in the second half of the season the Nuggets have hit their stride – 4 straight wins and 14 victories in an 18-game span that is noted for bookend victories over Oklahoma City.

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Isn’t it way past time for the Indiana Pacers to take a bow?

Virtually ignored, the Pacers are in terrific shape (35-21) as the season grinds into the home stretch. Scorer Danny Granger has finally returned from injury, bolstering a rotation that was already solid.

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Trade talks in the NBA are on the up and up.

The Lakers deny that they are considering moving Dwight Howard, which would mean that they are giving up.

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Is anyone who follows the NBA not rooting for Greg Oden?

Oden’s bad knee has been cut up more times that Eastern Europe after World War II, and now at just 24 years old and less than five years after being the overall No. 1 pick in the draft, he’s hoping for one last shot at being a productive NBA player.

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Is it time for the NBA to take a long look at itself? The best team in the league – San Antonio – entered this week with 36 victories.

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It is Martin Luther King Day, the unofficial midway point of the NBA season, and the Los Angeles Lakers are dragging ass.

A team with Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, Steve Nash and Pau Gasol is 6 games under water (17-23) and showing absolutely no signs of making any move that would enable them to escape the humiliation of having to share a platform with the have-nots at the NBA Lottery ceremony this coming June.

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The NBA is weird enough without Carmelo Anthony.

With him it’s over the top times 8.

Anthony revealed Sunday night that one possible reason that he has been shooting so poorly of late is that over the past three weeks he had been fasting. Kind of. Just different food.

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Quality NBA bigs are rare commodities, but rumors persist that three of them will be on the move in the near future.

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So is this the new normal for the Miami Heat? Run and preen at home for the locals, then go after it hard on the road only when the pressure builds? .

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Thinking (way) ahead here.

Let’s say the Clippers are for real and let’s say they go deep into the playoffs.

Let’s say that they actually win the championship.

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Say what you want about the NBA, but you can’t say that the pecking order changes all that much.

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We haven’t yet even hit the new year and three marquee franchises are struggling. The Heat couldn’t even get it together against the gawdawful Wizards, the Celtics can’t seem to put two good games together, and in Los Angeles Kobe Bryant is doing everything he can to keep from smacking Pau Gasol on the back of the head with a rolled-up newspaper.

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Mindful that what happens in November rarely has anything to do with what happens when snow melts in the north and real NBA basketball starts in mid-April.