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Contents: NBA Preview – The Thunder (Led by Kevin Durant and backed by the league’s most appreciative fans, Oklahoma City takes aim at L.A.), The Heat (After pulling off the biggest coup in NBA history, can Miami make the best of its Big Three on the court?), Scouting Reports (Projected lineups, fast facts and scouts’ takes for all 30 teams, plus the order of finish for both conferences), Baseball – The Giants (Nothing is easy for this tortured team, which hasn’t won it all since ’54) College Football – Seismic Saturday (In a day that scrambled the polls, down went Nos. 1, 5 and 10) Pro Football – Tight Ends (They’re the new go-to guys in the NFL’s ever-evolving air attack) Soccer – Thierry Henry (The French striker has turned the Red Bulls into MLS title contenders) Departments – Leading Off, Letters, Scorecard (Is tell-all agent the new Jose Canseco?), Just My Type (LSU’s Les Miles talks clock management), Faces In The Crowd, Inside…(The NFL – Head shots on the rise) (Fantasy Football – Backups to pick up) (College Football – No-frills Spartans) (College Basketball – Returning big men) (NASCAR – SI Mid-Chase Awards), The Vault (Gretzky’s record, ’89), SI.Com (Big Ben’s return; Peter King’s thoughts), Point After (College football the way it ought to be)
Cover: Kevin Durant, Thabo Sefolosha and Nenad Krstic of Oklahoma City
Condition: Very Good