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AFTERNOON NBA LINKS [QUICK] ROUNDUP

• Bethlehem Shoals in Bleacher Report about why the “Derrick Rose Rule” doesn’t make sense.
• Have the Lakers scheduled an exhibition game with their Staples Center partners, the Los Angeles Clippers on December 19th? 
• Beckly Mason at HoopSpeak asks if Russell Westbrook is simply another incarnation of Tony Parker. My two cents, Westbrook actually has a better jump shot at this point in his career compared to Parker when he was that age.
• Dan Devine gives us a video at Ball Don’t Lie, which covers “basically everything that happened during the NBA lockout.”
• Hear The Basketball Jones crew from Toronto talk with Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski and Amir Blumenfeld of College Humor when their No Season Required tour stopped in New York last night. No, I did not go. 
• Sekou Smith at the NBA Hangtime Blog brings links from the free agent-palooza that’s currently underway priming up for an NBA season we all thought was lost. December 9 is “Invasion Day,” so get prepared for your head to explode with all the rumors, innuendos, sources and links that will happen during that two week stretch leading up to the start of the season with a quintuple-header on Christmas Day.
• One of my favorite writer’s, Sport Illustrated scribe, Ian Thomson, breaks down the 2011 NBA Free Agency mess sure to cause coronaries in NBA GM’s  some time between 12/9-12/25. It’s quite helpful for wrapping your head around all the movement we’ll see, and if you’re a GM not becoming hospitalized.

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