This yearโ€™s NBA All-Star Weekend brought record prime time ratings for TNT. Nielson reports the leagueโ€™s annual East vs. West game surpassed audience numbers in nearly a decade. Between 8:46 and 11:41 p.m., 9.09 million viewers turned on and tuned in to the All-Star Game. That was a 33% improvement over last yearโ€™s 6.85 million viewers.

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Every once in a while you come upon something that makes you say, โ€œWow. Just wow.โ€ Bill Simmons is the writer of the โ€œSports Guyโ€ column for a couple of ESPN products, a blogger, writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live and author of books, now numbering 2. It was his second book, The Book of Basketball, that made me go, โ€œWow. Just wow.โ€ Itโ€™s sub-title is The NBA According to the Sports Guy. And that pretty much says it. With a dash โ€“ no, a pound โ€“ of humor, a passionate (and opinionated) viewpoint on basketball through the years and a… Read more »

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Welcome to the Basketball Goal Store blog!

For hoop aficionados, every day is a great day to talk about basketball. And itโ€™s always a great time to start a blog, but right now is an especially great time to start a blog about basketball!

Because itโ€™s at this time of year, the talk moves into a more frenzied kind of conversation. We are, after all, gearing up for March

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