It was about time for Jeremy Lin to have a bad game. Everyone does. The ferocious Miami defense harassed the Knicks’ PG into eight turnovers, and held him to 1-11 shooting. Don’t panic; the Heat can do this to a lot of teams. Amare Stoudamire turned the ball over six times and had just 13 points, and while Carmelo Anthony scored 19, he shot 7-20 with five FG attempts blocked. Only J.R. Smith and Steve Novak seemed unaffected by the
Jeremy Lin became the third person since 1977-78 (when turnovers became official) to turn the ball over 8 times and shoot less than ten percent from the field. This is the first time this season each of the Heat’s Big 3 finished with at least 20 points in a single game. They had 21 such instances last season, posting an 18-3 mark in such games. The Heat post a 27-7 mark before the All-Star Break, good for a .794 win percentage. It’s
DNP-PR is a close cousin to DNP-CD. The first stands for Did Not Play-Personal Reasons. The second stands for Did Not Play-Coach’s Decision. I had the unfortunate luck of having Lamar Odom on my roster for last night’s fantasy challenge sponsored by Draft Street, and Odom was not with the Dallas Mavericks for their game against Odom’s former team, the Los Angeles Lakers, after being excused from the game for personal reasons (a DNP-PR) to tend to a family matter. That left
Tonight’s TNT doubleaheader includes the league’s two best teams and a strong contingent of All-Star Weekend participants. In the first game (7 p.m. ET), the Miami Heat (26-7, .788) hosts the New York Knicks (17-17, .500), while the Los Angeles Lakers (20-13, .606) travel to Oklahoma City to face the Thunder (26-7, .788). Miami and Oklahoma City are tied for the league’s top record. This marks the second of three meetings between New York and Miami. Despite hitting a season high
Twitter and Facebook will be set ablaze Thursday night when Linsanity and the New York Knicks take their talents to South Beach, ending the first half of the NBA season with a nuclear-sized bang against the Miami Heat. “I’m not looking forward to the game like I woke up on Sunday and said I can’t wait for Thursday,” Heat star Dwyane Wade said. “It’s going to be great intensity, but it’s not the Finals or anything.” Maybe it is. Aftermarket courtside seats
// Before All-Star weekend arrives, there is one last test game for a couple of teams. It comes Thursday night when the Knicks visit the Heat in Miami, and it is a test in many ways. For New York, now with a full complement of healthy players and a level of depth that exceeds what they’ve had over the first half of the season, it is a chance to measure themselves against a Heat team that has been steamrolling through the
NBA commissioner David Stern said the field of potential buyers of the league-owned New Orleans Hornets as been whitted down to 2 or 3, and a sale could be imminent. “I’m optimistic and hopeful that we will complete the sale by the end of the month,” stern told USA Today in an intewview at NBA headquarters in Manhattan. “We’re talking with multiple perspective buyers, but we’re anticipating the ability to close by the end of the month,” Stern said. “We’ve had offers
