Just call him Magic. Kobe Bryant (14 PTS, 11 AST, 8 REB) no longer cares about the scoring title, he wants to make the playoffs. In his fantastic career, Kobe has never dished out 39 assists in three games before, and L.A. has won all three. [Read more…]
Never ones to sleep in, SheridanHoops.com’s new daily feature presents five interesting items from the previous night in the NBA. Four games were on the NBA slate Tuesday night. Kobe continued to assist the Lakers, the Blazers won at the buzzer, ,and the Warriors and Bucks posted decisive wins. Men at Work takes us to the bump…”You better run, you better take cover.” [Read more…]
Today was not Billy Hunter’s best day as director of the National Basketball Players Association, although he has had worse. Quite a few people want him ousted from his post, and they are speaking out. [Read more…]
Lessons learned on Monday? 1) You can’t win the $1,000 Survivor tournament if you get knocked out the first night. 2) Never be ‘sure’ about players. I ‘loved’ Al Jefferson; thought he’d shoot over and duck under Omer Asik with ease. Paul Millsap was another ‘lock,’ as I thought the Jazz would win 115-110 or thereabouts. They got blown out by 45, which never happens in Utah.
Yet another ‘minor’ ankle sprain for Stephen Curry (17 PTS in 26 minutes) meant that his teammates needed to close this one out. David Lee (21 PTS, 12 REB, 7 AST) led seven Warriors in double figures; by far the most surprising was Andrew Bogut. [Read more…]
Kobe Bryant, or Magic Bryant? Whatever you want to call him, the Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard has drastically changed his style of play over the past two games for the greater good of his reeling team. And it’s working out quite swimmingly, too. After suffering 10 losses out of 12 contests, Bryant dropped his quest to lead the league in scoring and decided to put his focus on more important things – at least for the current make of this team –
Without Rajon Rondo, who is out for the rest of the season with a torn ACL, the Celtics got a triple-double from Paul Pierce (17 PTS, 13 REB, 10 AST) and an inspired Kevin Garnett (24 PTS, 11 REB, 4 AST, 3 BLK, 2 STL) as they somehow beat Miami in double overtime. [Read more…]
