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As the Lakers rested Kobe Bryant during the final stretch of regular season games, the question surrounding Los Angeles was whether or not they were going to be able to flip on the proverbial switch and raise their level of play from rather mediocre since the All-Star Break to Championship caliber. For the first [...] The Cleveland Cavaliers started this game off looking like the best in the NBA. Everything was working for them. Shaq was back in the paint, fighting on the boards, making sound post moves, and scoring at the rim. Antawn Jamison was doing everything he was brought in to do, getting funky shots at the [...] Way too much transpired last night in that classic Utah-Oklahoma City game to write about it and do it justice. The Thunder showed outstanding resilience to fight back from down 11 on the road against one of the best home teams in basketball over the past five seasons. Kevin Durant was absolutely sick, filthy, [...] Consider this: the Lakers blew out the second best team in their conference, a team that I think can win a title, despite only playing their best ball for the first eight and final eight minutes of the game and despite Kobe Bryant, who signed a three-year contract extension today, 18 misses from the [...] After starting off the season with high hopes and defeating the Lakers handily in their first two meetings, the Denver Nuggets have struggled badly of late. Whether the absence of George Karl is really taking a toll on them or they are just hitting that point of the year where they would kill for [...] About two weeks ago, I wrote a column suggesting the Houston Rockets should morph into an offensively focused team. Since then, the Rockets have scored or given up 100 points in four of six games, including this slobber knocker. The major factor in Houston that made me believe that an offensive game plan would [...] With 25 seconds left in the game, Kevin Durant stepped to the free throw line looking to ice the game away for the Oklahoma City Thunder. As the ball was tossed to him by the ref, Durant heard chants of “M-V-P” come down from the rafters. He couldn’t help but crack a smile. And [...] The best way to describe the Milwaukee Bucks and the way they play is that they have one great player and three or four good ones. Their great player is Andrew Bogut, and though he has made some major strides this season, emerging as a top three center in the league, he cannot be [...] The Milwaukee Bucks are going to compete this year. Not for a title, but they will win a playoff series. In fact, as I have been saying for a week or so now, they will be beating these very Celtics in a first round series if they play them and they will give the [...] I’ll be recapping the games bullet style tonight. At this point, I knew it wasn’t a normal day. Boston lost this game because of an overall lack of effort. They turned it over 18 times leading to 25 Net points and committed 29 personal fouls to New Jersey’s 11. I know Paul Pierce [...] |
     
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