// csprtContainer(); // ]]> The Denver Nuggets have played 27 home games and just 22 away games (entering Monday night’s game at Chicago), they are not a particularly good defensive team, and their final nine games will be against teams fighting for playoff positioning and/or playoff spots. They just downgraded Nene for JaVale McGee, they have been in a constant state of flux because of injuries, and they are 0-2 thus far on a seven-game road trip. So when asked who I think
Four overtime periods is not how you want to finish your third game in three nights. The exhausted Hawks never quit. Joe Johnson played over 55 minutes en route to 37 points and Zaza Pachulia was terrific, with 15 points and 20 rebounds. For Utah, seven players scored in double figures, led by Al Jefferson (28 & 17) and Paul Millsap (25 & 13) but somebody had to lose this very exciting contest. Elsewhere DEN @ MIN: Kevin Love was tremendous again,
Kobe Bryant watched from the bench for a key stretch of the fourth quarter as his Los Angeles Lakers suffered a rare home loss. Dwyane Wade watched LeBron James dominate the ball and didn’t attempt a single shot in the final 12 minutes as the Miami Heat got soundly defeated in Oklahoma City. Do we have a pair of controversies on two of the NBA’s marquee teams? On a Sunday that included a possible NBA finals preview, the first quadruple-overtime game in 15
Arguably the NBA’s best two players go head-to-head for the first time this season on Sunday when LeBron James and the Miami Heat visit Kevin Durant and the Thunder in Oklahoma City. The outcome of this game could impact the finals if these two clubs are to meet there. At 35-11 the Heat, second to the East-leading Chicago Bulls (40-10), are percentage points ahead of the West-leading Thunder (36-12). Home-court advantage during the finals is given to the owner of the better regular-season
Jody Genessy: Denver guard Arron Afflalo has been suspended one game for throwing an elbow at Gordon Hayward’s face in Friday’s blowout. Twitter Brian Schmitz: Magic PF Glen Davis says team needs to have a “Jedi force” to carry it rest of season. Nice to know Star Wars hasn’t jumped the shark. Twitter “(I’m feeling) way better,” Rose said. “(When the injury occurred) I was actually bleeding, my groin was bleeding, but now it’s healed. It’s just scar tissue and it’s pretty hard trying to get that
NEW YORK — Arron Afflalo will have some time on his hands to consider his elbows. NBA vice president of violence Stu Jackson announced Sunday that Afflalo has been suspended one game without pay for throwing an elbow to the head of Utah’s Gordon Hayward midway through the third quarter of Utah’s 121-102 win over the Nuggets two nights ago in Salt Lake City. Afflalo will sit out today as the Nuggets play in Minnesota. Actually, it was a half-forearm, half-elbow that Afflalo
Being a purist, I can’t say I like the 66-game season. But it is leading to some compelling games in late March as both the Eastern Conference and Western Conference races refuse to be unbunched, the Clippers are on the precipice with coach Vinny Del Negro and are being picked apart by columnists who are starting to recognize the weaknesses that were apparent to only a few of us early in the season, and Olympic fever is starting to show some signs
