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Report: Lebron Back Friday, Jamison OK
ESPN.com is reporting that the Cavs expect Lebron back in the lineup on Friday and that they are taking a wait and see approach in regard to Antawn Jameson. If you caught Tuesday’s game against the Spurs, you know Kameson left with a knee issue. It looks as though he is going to be OK [...]
Expanding the Palate
This post is by Ian Levy from Hickory High, AMT’s new writer There is a great episode of That 70’s Show where Midge, Donna’s airhead mom, has signed up for a class at the local community college. The night of her first class, Midge asks her husband Bob if he would like a turkey or tuna sandwich for dinner. ”Tonight………but [...]
Game #64 Recap: Pacers Still On Top with Granger Out
Danny Granger was suspended for one game due to his part in that little brawl during the Suns game. However, Indiana acted like it was no big deal. They made it look easy, with Brandon Rush on top with 24 points and nine rebounds. Dahntay Jones also played well with his 25 points. Troy Murphy [...]
Bracketology Final Four and Which Sleeper Can Make a Final 4 Run?
Until we get the actual brackets on Sunday night it is entertaining to look at the daily updates to ESPN’s Bracketology. This has been an up and down year with no clear cut season long favorite outside of Kansas. That means that the final four will not be comprised of the very best four teams [...]
Cuban’s Mavs Take Top Spot In NBA Power Rankings
As I sit here looking back at last week’s NBA action I realize that this was one of the most messed up weeks of this season. Lebron’s ankle injury, the Lakers three game losing streak, and the Mavs twelve game winning streak combine to give you one heck of a week in the NBA. As [...]
Good Jamal, Bad Jamal – Examining Jamal Crawford
Good Jamal For the season Jamal Crawford is averaging 17.3 points per game and shooting a career high 44.9% from the field. Those numbers translate to being the leading candidate for NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award and one of the big reasons the Hawks have improved yet again this season. A look at the advanced [...]
Inside Staples Center When Kobe Hits A Game Winner
Lakers tickets aren’t easy to come by. Getting to Staples Center for a game isn’t easy, either. Parking is frustrating and expensive, and the whole experience sometimes makes you wonder if watching the game on TV would have been a better idea. Sometimes. Last night, roughly 20,000 fans and I were inside the famous structure to witness [...]
Bucks Over Celtics; Bucks Gettin Some ESPN Love
Bucks – Celtics Last night was a great regular season NBA basketball game between the Bucks and Celtics. Milwaukee held on for a two point win as Paul Pierce’s jumper rimmed out. The result was great for us Bucks fans, but the way the game played out was just as good. The Bucks had to earn this [...]
Raptors at Kings – Game Preview
Only one statement can be said about tonight’s game for the Raptors against the Sacramento Kings – MUST WIN! After a heart-breaking but expected loss to the Los Angeles Lakers last night, the Raptors are right back at it tonight against the Sacramento Kings. Now only 1.5 games up on the 9th seeded Chicago Bulls, the [...]
Late Dagger By Kobe Sinks Raptors
After missing the buzzer-beater in Toronto, you had to figure there was no way Kobe Bryant -one of the best players to ever play in the Association -would miss a second time, and he didn’t. It was Kobe’s baseline jumper with 1.7 seconds left that was the difference in a 109-107 victory for the Lakers [...]
Orlando Magic News & Notes: Six In A Row
The Orlando Magic dominated the Los Angeles Clippers to win their sixth consecutive game. Dwight Howard led the way with 22 points, 15 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks. You can see a few of his highlights here. Dan Savage and Josh Cohen provided postgame analysis. Magic All-Star center Dwight Howard erupted for 22 points and 15 [...]
This Time, Derrick Rose Gets Dunked On
Derrick Rose has posterized many an NBA Player with some vicious dunks this year, but on Tuesday night he was the one getting dunked on. It came at the hands of former Illini and fellow point guard Deron Williams. Deron Williams scored 28 points and had 17 helpers as the Jazz smoked the Bulls 132-108. [...]
Blazers 88, Kings 81 Re-Thoughts: Blowing a Lead
We’re going to do things a little differently tonight. Since the Blazers won a relatively simplistic game — neither team could defend the paint all that well — in which they followed a familiar pattern in failing to hold a double-digit lead in the fourth, we’re going to delve into how that happened rather than [...]
Mamba strikes again; Bryant bails out Lakers
The Los Angeles Lakers should be sporting Purple and Gold Manchester United shirts this season. Instead of donning a jersey with a Lakers logo plastered on the front, they need to be flying the corporate sponsorship of AIG. Like the insurance giant, the Lakers have been receiving bail outs all season. Unlike AIG though, there have been no [...]
Celtics Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda But Didn’t Win
After tonight’s game in Milwaukee Celtics fans can put another tally in the woulda, coulda, shoulda but didn’t won column. The Celtics used lock-down defense in the final 2:38 of the fourth quarter to cut the lead to only two points with 3.9 seconds remaining. Doc drew up a play to get Paul Pierce open for [...]
2010 NBA Draft: Early Notes
With conference tournaments currently going on, and the NCAA tournament right around the corner, I felt now is the perfect time to address, which prospects Knicks fans should pay most attention to. Remember though, the Knicks do not have a first rounder, but we do have 2 second round picks each in the top half so things aren’t all that grim in terms of the draft. This draft is centered around John Wall and then everyone else. Well, contrary to popular belief I find this to be a very deep draft in terms of overall talent at every position. Each team has a [...]
Spurs make “two” many mistakes against Cavs
See what I did there? No? We’ll, last night the Spurs didn’t play very well against the Cavs. With Lebron and Shaq out with injuries, this was about as good of a time to play Cleveland as any would be, unfortunately it didn’t work out so well. San Antonio looked like they were about to tie the [...]
Dwight Howard Can Do It All
Dwight Howard showed off his all-around skills during Tuesday night’s victory over the Los Angeles Clippers. Courtesy of NBA.com: (Andrew Melnick is Howard the Dunk’s lead blogger and a contributor at NFL Mocks Subscribe to his RSS feed, add him on Twitter to follow him daily and you can get the HTD app here).
My Head Just Exploded (Again)
Clippers fire Dunleavy, start prepping for big off-season.
Magic Dominate Clippers, Win Sixth Straight
The Orlando Magic dominated the Los Angeles Clippers from start to finish. They took a 10-point lead at the end of the first quarter and never looked back, building a 26-point halftime lead and eventually won the game 113-87. Dwight Howard, who didn’t come out of the game until he already played 32 minutes, sat [...]
Quick Recap: Magic – 113 Clippers – 87
Orlando got off to a pretty nice start and took a 15-8 lead at the 5:28 mark which prompted the Clippers to call a timeout. The Clippers responded, scoring seven of the next nine points to cut the lead to 17-15. The Magic scored the next nine points on a nice running hook by Howard, [...]
Halftime: Magic – 67 Clippers – 41
Orlando got off to a pretty nice start and took a 15-8 lead at the 5:28 mark which prompted the Clippers to call a timeout. The Clippers responded, scoring seven of the next nine points to cut the lead to 17-15. The Magic scored the next nine points on a nice running hook by Howard, [...]
Bucks and Madness before the Brackets
Bucks The Bucks host Boston tonight in a game that could allow some of us Bucks fans to actually believe what we are seeing. The Bucks have been on a roll and we all love it, but we have absolutely no trust built up in this team. We all realize that barring an injury to Bogut [...]
Week 19 Rankings
With LeBron James missing the last two games with an injured right ankle (or “just resting” according to Mike Brown), the Cavaliers haven’t quite looked like the same 50 win team they’ve been all season. But that’s to be expected. They have been forced to readjust roles and make up for the absence of the [...]
Adande on the Blazers
Over at ESPN, J.A. Adande did a little write up about the Blazers. It’s clearly intended for a national audience, and thus mostly just a rehash of information you probably already know, but the quotes are solid. It’s not really a column, either, since there isn’t a ton of opinion from Adande, but I always [...]
Blazers/Kings Pre-Thoughts
The Sacramento Kings are in town to face the Blazers in what will be only Portland’s second home game in the last two weeks. An even nuttier stat: the Blazers only have 8 home games left. As a team trying to make a push towards the playoffs, home games against sub .500 teams in the [...]
Somehow Knicks Remain Undefeated In Three Games Against Atlanta Hawks
This year the Atlanta Hawks picked up former Knick Jamal Crawford, who is second on the team in scoring and is the likely winner of the Sixth Man Of The Year Award for the most valuable player off the bench. In addition, their should-be-All-Star power forward, Josh Smith, aka JSmoove, has taken his game to the next level by no longer settling for hoisting up three-pointers, thus greatly improving his field goal percentage (& shot selection). As a result, the Hawks have taken that next step to where they’re almost up there with the big boys in the league. No [...]
Miller One of the Top Ten Shooters In NBA History
By CSR: Top All-Time Shooters By CSR Player 2-Pt% 3-Pt% FT% CSR Steve Nash .515 .431 .903 1.849 Steve Kerr .494 .454 .864 1.812 Reggie Miller .525 .395 .888 1.807 Mark Price .501 .402 .904 1.807 Jeff Hornacek .515 .403 .877 1.795 Chris Mullin .533 .384 .865 1.783 Peja Stojakovic .485 .400 .895 1.779 Larry Bird .509 .376 .886 1.770 Ray Allen .482 .396 .893 1.770 Dana Barros .488 .411 .858 1.757 Min. 10,000 career minutes If you’re confused, read about here.
Clippers Getting Ready For Ball-fakes to the Face
Magic host the Clippers tonight.
Orlando Magic News & Notes: Dwight’s Techs, Happy Birthday To Adonal Foyle and Matt Barnes
Matt Barnes had some interesting things to say about Kobe Bryant. “Yeah I heard about that this morning,” Barnes said of Odom’s comments. “I’m not going to sit up here and get into a name-calling battle with someone. the lakers are where we want to be. If that’s what you do when you’re at the top, [...]
Scary Thought: Big Baby Will Be A Daddy
Job Applying For: Father of a young child. Glen Davis’ Resume: May 10th 2009 – Pushes child at Amway Arena following a game winning shot in game six of a Eastern Conference Semi-Final matchup. October 26th 2009 – Involved in an altercation between himself and a former teammate at LSU. The fight sidelined him for over [...]
Michael Finley Will Be In Uniform For Celtics Tonight
Following the signing of Michael Finley last week many people projected that he would be making his Celtics debut on Sunday night against Washington. If you watched the game then you probably noticed that never happened and that he was dressed in a suit watching the action on the parquet take place. Tonight, according to [...]
Los Angeles Clippers @ Orlando Magic
The Orlando Magic are coming off a big win over the Los Angeles Lakers and on Tuesday night, they will attempt to beat a team from the same town when they play host to the Los Angeles Clippers. The Clippers are reeling, having lost their last three games and five of their last six. The [...]
When the Bulls Were Dominant: Pip on Leno
Vintage Bulls. The crowd in Chicago goes nuts. But not at the game. It’s Scottie Pippen sitting next to Arsenio on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno – when Leno was only half a dork. The Bulls just beat Miami and Pip had 24. He talks about partying a bit too much. 6 rings? Couldn’t [...]
New York Knicks (99) Atlanta Hawks (98) Game Recap
As I said in my preview yesterday that in the grand scheme of things a loss to the Knicks only mattered if the Hawks still have the goal to finish higher than fourth in the Eastern Conference. The way they are playing defense right now looks like they are completely happy with maintaining that fourth [...]
With and without K-Mart
It was a mix of bad news and good news regarding Kenyon Martin and the Denver Nuggets on Monday. Martin, who has missed the previous two games will have to undergo platelet rich plasma therapy according to the Denver Post’s Benjamin Hochman. And the good news is K-Mart won’t have to have surgery, but the [...]
Quotes: Magic – 96 Lakers – 94
The main topic of discussion after the game was the on-court back-and forth between Matt Barnes and Kobe Bryant, but both teams touched on a variety of topics. Click below to read what each team had to say. Orlando Magic Head Coach Stan Van Gundy On the game… “That was just a battle. That was much more of a [...]
Przybilla Surgery Successful
From the Blazers: Joel Przybilla underwent successful surgery tonight to repair a re-ruptured right patella tendon. No timetable has been set for his return. At least we can say everyone has been having successful surgeries this season. Here’s to Joel and his family pulling through this.
Nifty Number Fifty
Obviously the Cavaliers are not the same team 50 win team when they are without the services of TheBron James but they’re still pretty darn good. After just two Cavs posted double-figures against the Milwaukee Bucks on Friday night, six players stepped to the plate and delivered a punch or two on Monday night. Antawn Jamison [...]
Raptors at Lakers – Game Preview
Quite possibly the most important road trip of the Raptors season kicks off on Tuesday night in Los Angeles. Unfortunately for the Raptors it isn’t with a match-up against the Clippers, its a date with the defending champion Lakers. Having dropped to 6th in the East, and only 2 games up on 9th every game from [...]