The move of Elton Brand to the 76ers greatly impacts the Western Conference. While many GMs in the west breathed a sigh of relief when Brand signed with the 76ers this off-season, it could have been very different.

Did game two of the finals seem familiar to anyone? Following a 38-10 discrepancy in free throws in Boston's favor in Game 2, disgraced former NBA ref larry Donaghy's legal team seized the moment to publicly outline new allegations of altered games, including a pair of specific examples: a 2005 playoff series between the Houston Rockets and the Dallas Mavericks, and the infamous Game 6 of the Western Conference finals in 2002...

Sunday's huge win against the Spurs put the Suns record at 4-6 with Shaq in the lineup. Getting the win was the good part. The bad part? The Suns with Shaq may now be better equipped to handle teams that play a more conventional half court game like the Spurs, than run and gun teams like the Warriors and Nuggets. This from the team that was THE run and gun team in the league before the trade.

The 2007 NBA draft class was the most hyped and highly covered of any draft class in the last five years and maybe even this decade - and 9 of the 10 first picks were still teenagers. Something very profound has occurred in the NBA in the past two years due in large part to the new rule that disallows any high school student from entering the NBA draft until they are 19 years old...

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Columnist Greg Wyshynski examines the Dallas Mavericks' protest of a recent NBA game, and wonders if Commissioner David Stern's reaction to it has exposed one of the league's biggest shortcomings...