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Best Of The SB Nation Network: April 24, 2012

We have 323 fantastic sports blogs in SB Nation, so in case you didn’t have a chance to read them all we’ve collected the best stuff right here. Get sports smart in no time fast!

Basketball

-- Nets center Brook Lopez is really into comic books, sees himself as “Beast”

-- Tim Duncan has a chance to move up on some “all-time best” lists this season.

-- It looks like there will be two more Canadians joining the NBA next year, eh.

Soccer

-- Steven Lenhart is the quintessential player no one wants to play again. RSL Soapbox shows how he “set up” Jamison Olave in order to draw a red card in last week’s game.

-- At 0-6 things are going all kinds of wrong at Toronto FC. Waking the Red looks at where this all may be heading.

Combat Sports

-- Bloody Elbow's Steph Daniels interviews "King Mo" Lawal.

-- Tom Grant breaks down the deficiencies in Stephen Thompson's grappling game in this Judo Chop.

Baseball

-- Purple Row looks at the adjustment Venezuelan baseball players must make when they venture north to the United States, as well as the role major league organizations play in easing that transition.

-- Fake Teams wonders why Ike Davis is killing your fantasy team.

-- Talking Chop has some thoughts on the Braves’ demotion of starting pitcher Jair Jurrjens.

-- The Crawfish Boxes analyzes the use of social media, like Twitter, by Houston Astros players.

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