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By: Steve Kyler 

By: Preetom Bhattacharya

By: Jon Mladic 

Most fans see the highly-publicized, immature actions of a few NBA players and assume the rest of the league is filled with similar individuals. But truthfully, the NBA has more than its fair share of nice guys. Here are some of the favorites of the HOOPSWORLD staff:

By: Yannis Koutroupis  

By: Jason Fleming 

By: Mike Moreau

The Western Conference All-Breakout Team has a different look with players who all have already played vital roles, rookies ready to step up, and players who had potential breakout seasons derailed by injuries or circumstances. (Check out the East picks here.)

By: Mike Moreau

With NBA veterans beginning their pre-season preparation over these next few weeks, here are five players in the Eastern Conference who could be preparing to have their breakout seasons in the NBA and their stat lines from 2007-08:

Tyrus Thomas: 6.8 points, 4.6 rebounds, 1.0 blocks, 18 minutes

By: Tommy Beer

By: Mike Moreau

Team USA can't lose in these Olympics.

That doesn't mean they won't lose; it means that after all of the planning, preparation, and commitments from our nation's best basketball minds and our best players, they absolutely, positively cannot afford to lose.