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Steven Adams may have undone what many regarded as a poor freshman season at Pitt with his excellent showing at the NBA Draft Combine last week.

And while the 7-foot center from New Zealand was regarded as a probable late first-rounder before the combine, now it looks like he could very well be one of the first 14 player selected next month.

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The more Victor Oladipo comes across as a top-level athlete and versatile presence who can make an impact on both ends of the court, the more we have to wonder if that could negatively affect Ben McLemore's draft stock.

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San Antonio's win over Memphis on Sunday was shockingly easy, and one of the big reasons why was yet another huge first quarter by the Spurs.

SA has made a habit of breaking out to big starts so far in the playoffs, and if the Grizzlies are going to have any chance to come out victorious in four of the next six games they'll have to prevent that trend from continuing.

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Luol Deng is set to become a free agent after next season, and one of the big questions facing Chicago this offseason is whether dealing the all-star swingman is worth considering.

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Before last week's NBA Draft Combine in Chicago, Victor Oladipo was regarded by most draft experts as a possible top 5 pick. Very few, if any, had him vaulting into the top 3, a move that would require a team to pick the athletic swingman out of Indiana ahead of Nerlens Noel, Ben McLemore and/or Otto Porter.

After a very impressive showing in the athletic testing, however, NBA teams may be reconsidering Oladipo as one of the three best prospects in the draft.

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UPDATE: Three weeks ago we posed the question and raised the possibility of Miami point guard Shane Larkin rising the charts and becoming a lottery pick this June. It may have seemed a little far-fetched at the time, but it doesn't anymore.

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What Trey Burke showed as a sophomore in this year's NCAA tournament is that he has the talent to be a point guard in the NBA for a long time. Without him, Michigan wouldn't have made it past Kansas, let alone continued on to the championship game against Louisville.

Just how great Burke will be at the next level is the big question, and according to ESPN's draft expert Chad Ford there are some areas of concern based on Burke's showing at the recent Draft Combine.

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UPDATE: Toronto's interest in Denver's vice president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri is real. Very real. Here's the latest on the Raptors' efforts to woo the Nuggets' highly regarded executive north of the border.

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Several times Kobe Bryant has said he plans to play a few more seasons in the NBA and Sunday night he reiterated that opinion.

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The Charlotte Bobcats are set to have a top-5 pick in the 2013 draft, but Rick Bonnell of The Charlotte Observer wonders if the team is angling to move back in the order after watching the prospects they interviewed in Chicago last week.

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Dwight Howard is set to hit the free agent market on July 1 and he can expect to hear from several teams once the clock hits 12 am eastern. Those teams include the Los Angeles Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets and Atlanta Hawks. Howard is expected to to re-sign with the Lakers. however Houston is certainly a viable option.

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Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra has started Chris Bosh at center, Udonis Haslem at power forward and LeBron James at small forward and when Game 1 against Indiana kicks off on Monday that unit will stay intact.

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Vinny Del Negro's future with the Los Angeles Clippers is very much in doubt and we got word from ESPN.com's Marc Stein that owner Donald Sterling may have been scouting a possible replacement on Sunday.

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There had been some speculation that Kendrick Perkins might be amnestied in July to help the Oklahoma City Thunder stay below the luxury tax, but that not going to happen.

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