WHAT HAPPENED: It was 13-0 after the Nuggets opened the game with a trio of 3-pointers, including one from Danilo Gallinari, who had been 1-for-14 in the series from downtown. Kobe Bryant, after missing shootaround earlier in the day with gastrointestinal distress, kept the Lakers within striking distance until the third quarter, when the Nuggets rang up 36 points en route to their highest-scoring game of the series. You could say they were due for an offensive explosion after leading
WHAT HAPPENED: Andre Iguodala rebounded a missed free throw by Omer Asik with 7 seconds left, drove all the way downcourt and was fouled with 2.2 seconds left, making both free throws for the tying and winning points — making the Sixers only the fifth 8th-seeded team to knock off a No. 1 seed. Asik played an incredible game, never once taking a seat in the second half, but he was the wrong guy for C.J. Watson to give the
Patrick Ewing is getting a job interview with the Charlotte Bobcats, who are owned by his good friend, Michael Jordan. That is the word from Steve Reed of the Associated Press in Charlotte, where the Bobcats just set an NBA record for worst winning percentage in league history (.106) after going 7-59, losing their final 23 games. The interview will be Ewing’s second for a head coaching position. He had a sitdown with the Detroit Pistons last year before they hired Lawrence
// There is an unemployed coach out there with 11 championship rings who has a soft spot in his heart for the New York Knicks and Madison Square Garden. And at the very least, the Knicks and their owner, Jim Dolan, owe it to their fans to pick up the phone and make an exploratory call to Phil Jackson’s representatives to ask if he’d be interested in taking the job. SheridanHoops.com columnist Mark Heisler sat down for lunch with Jackson a couple
Just when it seemed fair to come to the conclusion that the first round of the playoffs (with the exception of the Clippers-Grizzlies series) sucked worse than a broken Oreck … Just when it looked like Thursday might be a decent time to schedule a date night … Halt! It’s all good. We were ridded of the Orlando Magic and their soap opera season in the first game of the night Wednesday, and after that came dramatics and comebacks that made that early evening
From www.fiba.com
“I’m retro,” the player formerly known as Ron Artest said last night in explaining his style of play. He also said he had not yet called James Harden to apologize for the elbow to the head that gave Harden a concussion, because he and Harden may yet meet again in the playoffs, and it would be a violation of competitors’ etiquette to pick up the phone right now. World Peace also declined to comment on the length of his suspension — seven
We shall begin this morning by saying goodbye to the San Antonio Spurs … for a little while. They will play again, they will most certainly be rested, and they still will have no black marks on their record since back on April 11 when they lost to the Lakers. Since then, it’s been 14 wins in a row — the latest an 87-81 victory at Utah the eliminated the Jazz after they fought tooth and nail over the final month