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What's your sports fantasy? Online game puts basketball fans in the general manager seat.(BLACK DIGERATI)(PASPN.net )

Article from: Black Enterprise Article date: November 1, 2008 Author: Donaldson, Sonya A.

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WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU COMBINE THE EXCITEMENT of professional basketball with the head games and heartburn of sports deal-making? PASPN.net (http://grn.paspn.net)--the first fantasy basketball game governed by the rules of the NBA's collective bargaining agreement.

Created in 2004 by 29-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate Ngozika Nwaneri, the Web-based game lets players assume the duties of an NBA general manager or create a sports agency using NBA statistics from ...

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