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West hopes changing by the day

PER Diem: March 29, 2010

Updated: March 29, 2010, 5:26 PM ET
By John Hollinger | ESPN.com

Things change.

And when you get a conference like the current West, in which razor-thin margins separate teams both in the standings and in terms of their general competitiveness, things can change very quickly. Seemingly minor developments are enough to shift an advantage one team had over another to a disadvantage, caused by an injury, or a trade, or a rapidly developing player, or a hundred other reasons.

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