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Sam Smith of blogs.bulls.com joins Ace McNeil and Mac Little to break down the Chicago Bulls and their Central Eastern division counterparts.  Why has the buzz surrounding the Bulls been so quiet?  Are the moves the Bulls made enough?  And are the Pacers more of a threat?  All this and more are discussed.

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Eureka! Here’s the the first podcast out of our 12-Hour NBA Preview.  Josh Kinsey and Mac Little are joined by Michael Cunningham, the Atlanta Hawks beat writer for the Atlanta Journal Constitution. The guys ask MC about the “No excuses mantra”, the development of Jeff Teague, a player to look for a breakout season (cough, Marvin Williams, cough), and MC’s plans had he missed an entire NBA season.  And some other things.

We’re having some technical difficulties here at WUOG Sports.  Apparently editing a twelve hour NBA Preview show is difficult for programs like Audacity and Garageband.

But we’re still trying.  Stay tuned.

It's back baby.

We here at WUOG Sports love the NBA.  We love it so much that we began to wonder what we possibly could do with all of our free time over the break.  With the lockout appearing like it would consume the entire NBA season, what were supposed to do Christmas Day and various other weeknights?  Talk to our family?  Sounds lame.

So when we found out that the players association and owners had come to a preliminary agreement  over the new collective bargaining agreement and were indeed set to tip-0ff on December 25th, our hearts inflated with joy.  No longer were we forced to talk to relatives with attentiveness, no longer would we have to labor through the TaxSlayer.com Gator Bowl, no longer would we have to pretend college basketball was equally as entertaining.

No sir, the NBA is back.  And the unfortunate part is that while most of the big NBA headlines are being written, WUOG’s airwaves went into Break Radio.  How were we to share our excitement with the people of Athens and beyond?

Here it is: a 12-Hour NBA Preview Show brought to you by none other than the fine sports staff at WUOG.  We start tomorrow at noon and end at midnight.  This is not a show for the faint of the NBA heart.

The show will be split into six, two-hour segments.  Each segment will be talking about a main theme of the NBA season and then preview each division.

Want guests?  We got them?  Some of the best basketball writers from across the country are calling in to WUOG to help us in our fearless endeavor.

We’ll be talking trades, CBA, Hawks, Kobe, you name it.  We will talk about everything.  It’s time to step your NBA game with WUOG Sports.  Here’s a schedule of tomorrow’s programming:

12PM-2PM Ace McNeil and Mac Little, Top NBA Headlines and the Central East Division, Guests: TBA

2PM-4PM Josh Kinsey and Mac Little, Atlanta Hawks and Southeast Division, Guests: Michael Cunningham, Hawks beat writer for the Atlanta Journal Constitution

4PM-6PM Matt Ryan and Mac Little, Potential and Actual Player Transactions and the Atlantic Division, Guests: Vincent Thomas, SLAM Magazine and FSS Columnist

6PM-7PM Trey Roberts and Patrick Bender, the new guard of the NBA and the Northwest Division Guests: Darnell Mayberry, Oklahoma City Thunder beat writer for The Oklahoman

7PM-8PM Mac Little, the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, Guest: Larry Coon, NBA writer and resident salary cap expert for ESPN.com

8PM-10PM Ken Nasse and Mac Little, Update on NBA Headlines and Pacific Division, Guests: Corey Butler, former UGA point guard, current coach at Stanford University and self-proclaimed Kobe Bryant lover

10PM-12AM Mac Little, Show Wrap Up and Southwest Division, Guests: TBA

Listen in at 90.5FM Athens or at this link anywhere else.  If you can’t listen tomorrow, we’ll be rolling out podcasts of all of our interviews within the week.