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In the comments section of our Andre Iguodala post last week, Joe Schaller had this request for us:

I would like to see a blog on players who played their entire career of at least 10 seasons with just one team, a truly great achievement when you really think about it and very rare. I think Reggie Miller was the last to do it.

No problem, Joe. Here's every player in NBA history to spend at least 10 seasons with the same franchise:

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Today's post topic comes courtesy of BBR reader Jared Rasmussen, who e-mailed us with this yesterday:

"Recently, especially this off-season, a lot of NBA role-players have been touring overseas. While many players have had overseas stints at some point in their careers, especially those who were drafted pre-D-League, some of the recent names are fairly relevant to NBA teams at the present.

I was wondering if there could be a blog based on the Win Shares of Josh Childress, Linas Kleiza, Von Wafer, and a lot of the 6th-12th bench players (and conceivably starters if any have gone overseas) to see the production that is being lost for the NBA franchise.

This suggestion comes today with the front-page news on Hoopshype.com that Cedric Simmons, Taurean Green, Alan Acker, and Kedrick Brown are all heading to Europe for the 2009-10 season."

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Over in the comments of our offseason transactions thread, there's an interesting discussion about the recent de facto "trade" between the Lakers and Rockets, which essentially ended up swapping Trevor Ariza for Ron Artest straight-up.

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When I wrote about Steve Nash's pair of somewhat controversial MVP selections last week, I held up the decline of Shawn Marion's game after leaving Phoenix as an example of the way Nash helped his teammates put up offensive numbers that were beyond their "true" ability level. However, a reader was quick to point out that while Nash had an effect on Marion, the inverse was also true, and that Marion's decline was probably due more to age, injuries, and 2 different teams than Nash's absence.

So today I decided to use Roland Beech's great stats at 82games.com to take a closer look at Marion's numbers with and without Nash to try and show even more clearly how much he benefited from the terrific synergy they developed together in Phoenix.

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(Before reading this, read this.)

OK, this post is in response to a few questions by our readers over the past day or so...

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This morning I woke up to the following message in my inbox:

Can Reggie Miller's HOF chance really be .037? That seems inconsistent with traditional stats and modern stats.

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