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I wrote it as clear as you heard: Bethlehem Shoals is sick of rumors. I wouldn't refer to myself in the third-person unless I really wanted to call attention to my own folly. So there's your disclaimer on this: I LIE.

However, the future of Andre Iguodala is about more than who goes where and for what. Comparing Andre Iguodala to Lamar Odom is misleading; besides being a more unique player, Odom is at once spacier and in theory, more likely to serve as a nervous center of a team. A weird one, indeed, but wasn't that the premise behind that rad Odom/Dwayne Wade/Caron Butler Heat team? Why does Shaquille O'Neal ruin all the interesting teams?

As we've seen from Odom's post-Heat career, though, he's either most comfortable, or at least has no problem with, taking a secondary role. In fact, with the Lakers, Odom's nearly an afterthought.

Iguodala has much to recommend him: stellar defense, great feel for the game, strong passing and rebounding, world-class athleticism, superb slashing, and the willingness to develop his outside shot. And yet Iggy, like Odom, might be about to surrender his place on pedestal.
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It's unclear whether the newly sprouting rumor sending Andre Iguodala and Samuel Dalembert to Phoenix for Amare Stoudemire and Leandro Barbosa has some seed of mutual interest, or if it's another one of those single-sided team plants. But suffice it to call it intriguing, even if Kate Fagan of the Philadelphia Inquirer notes that Amare's contract situation is a snag.

Essentially, Philadelphia would be losing its two best defenders. In exchange, it would receive two players whose existence in the NBA relies solely on scoring the basketball. In the past (meaning in years prior), Philly had won games due to an explosive defense leading to transition baskets. The defense was the key part of it. Iguodala, Andre Miller and Louis Williams hit enough shots to make it work (if getting into the playoffs and spooking the Pistons and Magic can be considered success).
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Our very own Terence Moore already offered up the best reason Allen Iverson should start the All-Star Game: The people voted him in, and he wants to do it. But over at TrueHoop, esteemed author Sherman Alexie feels otherwise. He harnessed the power of verse to argue that Iverson should man up and refuse to accept an honor he hasn't earned.

Here is my response, in the contemporary poetic vernacular we call hip-hop battle rhyme. If you want to hear a voice in your head, try Saafir's "Battle Drill."

Hey everybody come and see my home
Twenty feet high with the Wipers on
I could spend all day just bragging and gloating
But Amy Adams called and she wants to go boating
Anyway that's not what I'm here to do
You walked in, but it's because you knew
That Iverson doesn't need to resign his post
He got voted in, that's what counts most
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There's only one month left in this season's NBA trade derby. With the biggest summer of free agency since 2000 coming up, there could either be tons of high-level activity ... or small moves only. Time will tell.

In the meantime, let's take a look at 10 players that, due to their contracts, health and/or quality, will be quite difficult to move at the deadline, no matter how badly their teams want to lose them.

You'll note there aren't any 2011 expiring contracts on the list. It's becoming clear at least a handful of teams will sit out Destination 2010 in hopes of taking advantage of a new collective bargaining agreement in 2011, so immediate cap space isn't as much of a concern as it was once thought to be. So Eddy Curry? Jared Jeffries? Dan Gadzuric? Count your blessings.
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Fans Say Let A.l. Play

By Terence Moore 1/23/2010 1:57 AM ET

Allen IversonQuick. Name the winner of last year's NBA All-Star Game. And if you answered correctly, may I suggest you get a life?

Nobody cares.

Oh, and if not for the insistence of commissioner David Stern to do the right thing by having the fans choose the starters, nobody really would care.

It's an exhibition game, which means you can't take it seriously, which means if folks wish to vote in a starting lineup for either team that has the two remaining members of the Beatles, Donald Duck, Oprah Winfrey and a potted plant, so be it. Nearly eight decades ago, when All-Star Games were invented by a sports editor of a Chicago newspaper, he clearly stated they were for the fans. Give or take a few years, most commissioners of leagues have concurred.
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Chauncey BillupsDENVER -- The Massachusetts Senate race isn't the only vote this week in which health issues are at stake.

The NBA will release fan voting tallies Thursday when starters are named for the Feb. 14 All-Star Game in Dallas. While health care was a concern in one vote, the health of All-Star balloting is involved in another.

Despite being unworthy of being All-Stars when it comes to statistics and playing time, Philadelphia guard Allen Iverson and Houston guard Tracy McGrady are in line to be named starters. If either or both get the nod, some potential All-Stars figure to be moaning.

"You end up having guys that are in that position that are taking away from some deserving guys,'' Denver guard Chauncey Billups said in an interview with FanHouse about the possibility of Iverson getting elected in the East or McGrady in the West.
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Call him the accidental coach.

The guy who currently sits in New Jersey's lead seat recently was greeted as "Coach Vandeweghe.''

"It does sound funny,'' Kiki Vandeweghe said.

Yes, it does.

Not long ago, Vandeweghe rebuilt the woeful Denver Nuggets as general manager and looked primed to become one of the NBA's top executives. But Vandeweghe ticked off Denver owner Stan Kroenke by flirting with the Cleveland Cavaliers' general manager opening in 2005, and was ousted in 2006.

Vandweghe resurfaced with the Nets two years ago and eventually was named general manager. Vandeweghe, along with New Jersey president Rod Thorn, then began another NBA rebuilding project.

But something strange has happened on the way to the Nets' next summer having some $25 million of salary-cap room. They started losing so badly that coach Lawrence Frank had to go, and the team is the process of being sold to Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov.
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Haiti on the NBA's Mind

By Tom Ziller 1/16/2010 12:30 PM ET

Friday night, Samuel Dalembert played in his second game since a devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake sent his native Port-au-Prince, Haiti, into devastation, with upwards of 100,000 reported dead. Dalembert, who moved to Montreal as a teenager, has immediate family and close friends in Port-au-Prince. Despite the incredible weight of worry and sadness on the Philadelphia center, Dalembert has played lights out this week, with 12 points and 21 rebounds Wednesday against the Knicks and 17 points, 12 rebounds Friday against Sacramento.

More importantly, Dalembert has been the centerpiece of the NBA's push to get money for critical supplies to Haiti. Dalembert himself donated $100,000 to UNICEF. The NBA and its players union teamed up to donate $1 million. The Sixers asked fans for donations Friday night, and Philadelphia responded with a tremendous $30,000 in donations at the Wachovia Center. (Dalembert and the Sixers matched that giving.)

Dalembert told reporters he plans to commission a charter plane next week, once conditions at Port-au-Prince's damaged and overwhelmed airport clear up. Dalembert plans to use his flight to deliver as many supplies as he can, and also pick up his brother and sister to bring them back to the United States.
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John LucasLOS ANGELES -- John Lucas and LeBron James will be involved in the same NBA game Saturday at the Staples Center. For Lucas, it's 6 ½ years too late.

During the 2002-03 season, Lucas was coach of the woeful Cleveland Cavaliers. He believes team brass had a mission to lose enough games to get a shot at James, then a hot-shot senior 40 miles down the road at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio.

"They trade all our guys away and we go real young, and the goal was to get LeBron and also to sell the team,'' Lucas said in an interview with FanHouse. "I didn't have a chance. ... You can't fault the Cavaliers for wanting to get LeBron. It was hard to get free agents to come there.''

Gordon Gund, then the principal owner and now a Cavaliers' minority owner, denied the team was tanking during that 17-65 season to get James, who would go to Cleveland with the No. 1 pick after it won the 2003 draft lottery. Gund also denied the team then was for sale, a move that wouldn't happen until 2005.

Lucas, now a Los Angeles Clippers assistant, will run into the Cavaliers on Saturday for the first time since they fired him Jan. 20, 2003 after an 8-34 start. And he will face James, a player he sure wishes he could have ended up coaching.
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Sixers GM Declines to Exempt Coach

By Matt Moore 1/09/2010 11:20 AM ET

The Sixers are pretty much a disaster. When GM Ed Stefanski took over in 2008 and led them to a playoffs berth, things seemed so bright for the Sixers you'd have to wear shades. But since then, it's become much more of a black hole sun situation, threatening to rip the franchise from its foundations. Their big free agent acquisition Elton Brand has spent most of his time in street clothes thanks to injury, losing Andre Miller at point has been the equivalent of cutting off their blood supply, and no one player has stepped his game up enough to start dragging out wins.

Philadelphia is 10-25 after blowing a huge lead to the Raptors at home last night, and that result came after Stefanski told reporters that "everyone was accountable" for the mess the Sixers find themselves in. He included himself in that assessment, while rejecting the idea of there being pressure to make a big deal before the trade deadline. He included the players, obviously. But most interestingly, he also included first-year-Sixers head coach Eddie Jordan, and declined to say that Jordan was safe from the consequences of this horrific start.
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