The D.A.Y. the Mavs finally lost
Kobe’s ankle pain, Jameer’s game winner, and more.
Khalid is not going to want to hear this, but his Eagles victory last night actually HELPED the Giants. Wild Card race, we’re back in it. The next two weeks, the Giants get to face the QBs that beat them in their last two playoff losses. Delhomme and Garcia. REVENGE!!! Bwah hahahahahhahahah!!!
I didn’t watch the game though. Watched the season finale of The Wire. It’s over. Now what am I supposed to do with my life? The ending has The Empire Strikes Back level cliffhangers, and I am looking forward to the next season. Fow now, I will have two Wire related Separated at Births for you later today, both of players that are mentioned in my game write-ups below. Then I’ll try not to talk about The Wire so much. If that’s possible.
WASHINGTON 106 DALLAS 97
The Mavs finally lost after those 12 straight wins. Gilbert Arenas has been calling out the word “Hibachi” when he’s heating up, and that worked for 38 points. It wasn’t just the Gilbert show though. The Wiz put Dallas in a hole, and even with the inevitable run the Mavs were too far behind to make a real comeback. Dirk had 27 for the Mavs in the loss while all five Washington starters reached double figures, SLAMonline columnist Etan Thomas had a double double, and the Wizards had a big win. They still do not have any road victories.
SAN ANTONIO 129 GOLDEN STATE 89
This is a 40 point win. What’s there to say? Anthony Roberson led Golden State with 21 in 33 minutes. The Spurs hit 13 of 23 threes. This was not a close game.
ORLANDO 92 SACRAMENTO 89
This game was closer. Ron Ron didn’t play, Dwight got back to his usual deal with 18 and 16 on 7 of 9 shooting, and Jameer Nelson hit the game winning three off a screen with 1.7 seconds left after passing up what could have been the winning shot with 6 seconds left, giving the Kings a real shot at tying or winning.They didn’t have one, and Orlando won with better execution. Who’s a young inexperienced team? The Magic won at Sacramento for the first time since Mitch Richmond’s first year with the team.
LA LAKERS 101 INDIANA 87
There was a basketball game played that the Lakers won pretty easily. But the big story on everyone’s mind is Kobe’s ankle. He came down on Jeff Foster’s foot and that was it. He still led the team in scoring with 21 points in 21 minutes, but he says he most likely won’t play against New Orleans on Wednesday. Jermaine O’Neal 18 and 11 in the loss. It was 60-44 at halftime, and the game was over already. Lamar Odom had 15 and 13 for L.A.
UTAH 101 MILWAUKEE 88
Michael Redd did not explode for 57 this time, and therefore the Bucks had to settle for a regular loss instead of nearly coming all the way back and losing. Carlos Boozer led the Jazz with 30 and 13 and Memo had 17 and 13. The Bucks frontcourt of Bogut and Patterson and Gadzuric and Skinner and anyone else you want to throw out there as a sacrificial lamb, had nothing to stop the Jazz up front. Charlie Bell had 23 and the Jazz D held Redd to 18 on 6 of 15 shooting.
CHICAGO 100 BOSTON 82
The Bulls are red hot ever since that dumb “controversy.” The Celtics are the opposite, and not even a dumb controversy can save them. Paul Pierce was held to 8 points. Not a winning formula for them. Nocioni led the Bulls with 20 and 7 on 8 of 10 shooting. Luol Deng played D on Pierce for a lot of the game and afterwords he said “You all can give us credit for playing well, but he might be injured.” If he’s not actually injured, then OUCH! Luol, that’s cold.
NEW YORK 98 MEMPHIS 90
The New York Knicks are 2-0 against a team from the West. Take that Eastern Conference haters! This game was not sold out. If my cousin Noah happens to be reading this, you can get Knicks tickets easily. Don’t need to go through me. The Knicks almost blew this game, but got a big shot from Quentin Richardson down the stretch and the Knicks held on. Q, Eddy Curry, and David Lee each scored 20 or more. Curry has been on a seven game run of 20+ scoring nights. Is he finally putting it all together? In this game he had 26 and 15. Hakim Warrick led the Grizzlies with 19 and 7. They’re bad. David Lee had a 20-11 night in 40 minutes after starting. Do NOT take him out of the starting lineup Isiah.
20 Responses to “The D.A.Y. the Mavs finally lost”
Dec.5 at 10:29 am
Sparker says:
si.com/nba has a nice pic of etan up this morning (swatting back a dirk layup)
Dec.5 at 10:51 am
Tombomb15basketball says:
Is anyone starting to think that Dwight Howard may be the horse that the Magic are gonna ride into the playoffs? The guy is like Kg mixed with Charles Barkley, He scores with such a great percentage that if he just got 3 more shots he would be a 22 points and probably 15 rebounds guy please Jameer give him the ball!!!!! Good to see Grant Hill figuring to, the Magic may go all the way.
Dec.5 at 10:59 am
Matthew says:
Gil finally get’s his in the player of the d.a.y. award. Or so I think.
Dec.5 at 11:06 am
MDShuai says:
I wish the Griz didn’t suck so much, not that I’m a Grizzlie fain, but I am a Mighty Mouse fan. Sucks to see him on a crappy team again.
Dec.5 at 11:50 am
Keith says:
David Stern has announced a new rule to the NBA:
Jeff Foster should be banned for life from playing any form of sports for nearly ruining the NBA by accidentally causing distress to Kobe Bryants ankle.
Go Sternbot!
Dec.5 at 12:04 pm
Geoff says:
Keith what makes him so special?
Finally we will see what Kobe really is because up until now he’s been critising Shaq for getting injured but now it seems that the “injury bug” is hitting him alot more frequently.
Not suprisingly, the Lakers can play just as good WITHOUT HIM..
Greatest player in the NBA my a$%
Dec.5 at 12:21 pm
Nads says:
possibly the most unintelligent comment in the history of comments.
Dec.5 at 12:24 pm
Keith says:
What makes Jeff Foster so special? Well, for a start he is so bad that he shouldn’t be playing in the NBA…..
Dec.5 at 1:07 pm
Max Airington says:
Meh.
Dec.5 at 1:24 pm
FLUXLAND says:
Geoff .. lay off the Fruit Loops or whatever u are on..KOBE is the best .. don’t hate. Keith… have you seen Foster play… ever? He may not score 40 a night or score at all but his bball IQ is off the charts and how many times did he make the Pacers look good in the playoffs? Balling is more then 40 a night, playboy. Cuz by the same logic what are Ginobili (human crash test dummy) and Eduardo Najera doing in the L?
Dec.5 at 1:58 pm
Keith says:
Fluxland….I was just playing around. Foster is clearly a pretty decent pro.
My point initially being that the Sternster will soon be so paranoid about Kobe getting hurt and profits dropping that he’ll stop anyone going near him.
Come to think of it, that rule is already in action. It’s called the ‘You look at Wade it’s a foul’ and was put into action last finals. But I’m not gonna bring that up again…!
Dec.5 at 2:45 pm
perkisabeast says:
You know its bad when the other team is making excuses for how shitty you played. Team Oden takes another tough “victory’ on the road.
Dec.5 at 3:23 pm
Shiz says:
you’re right…21 pts in 21 minutes…on an improving, not 100% knee…He’s not the greatest playin. Im sorry, I must have confused Kobe with the Other guy who just scored 30 in a quarter and didn’t miss 1 shot? One thing I’ll say, it takes a lot of balls comparin Kob to Shaq as far as health issues and the rehab of said issues go. Considering how Shaq’s pretty much out til All-Star Weekend and Kob is day-to-day for tomorrow’s game, why would you even go there? …its re-damn-diculous..
Dec.5 at 3:27 pm
Shiz says:
Truth is as truth does. And the truth is, shit’s gettin ugly in Beantown…8 pts in a 20 point blowout definitely equals “OUCH”.
Dec.5 at 4:43 pm
Dblizzy! says:
Of course Kobe’s the best in the league, SLAM’s crack staff selected him #1 on their critically acclaimed SLAM TOP 50 LISTS…
Dec.5 at 5:12 pm
A_B says:
lakers can win without kobe but come playoff guy you need that go to guy especialy in the 4th quarter when the game is on the line. As charles barkley said utah don’t have that and as good as they’re playing I still don’t think they’re as good as they record. theyé win 50’sometihng wins this year. On friday dallas vs sacramento artest said he wanted to get em back so I’ma watch that game. NJ vs phoenix is a game I’ma watch to. I can finaly watch nba basketball from the comforst of my own home:D
Dec.5 at 8:46 pm
Elyse says:
Actually, the Lakers play a lot worse without Kobe. Did you watch a 23 point lead deteriorate into seven after Kobe went out. Your right, that had nothing to do with him….
They are deep enough this year that they can play effectively without him, but they aren’t better. And, Kobe has missed two games this year. Two. How many has Shaq missed? How many did he miss last year? Kobe may be back wed, but I would be he is back no later than friday against atlanta. Comparing Kobe’s work ethic to Shaq’s is just flat out ridiculous, seeing as it is common knowledge that Kobe works as hard if not harder than anyone at improving his game and staying in shape/healthy. If you want to hate Kobe, that’s fine, but can you bring something that is actually legitimate?
Dec.5 at 10:21 pm
scott says:
Elyse…Kobe changed his number for no apparent reason. Thus everybody owning a Bryant #8 can no longer wear it and must spend another $100 to upgrade to number 24.
Dec.6 at 2:19 am
Nadav Mor says:
Why did Amare change his number?
Why did emJay change his number? Who the hell cares?
If youre enough of a Kobe fan to buy his jersey once, you’ll do it again.
If you don’t, too f*cuken bad.
Stop hating.
Dec.6 at 5:38 am
Fire_Isiah says:
Anthony Roberson had 14 points in 7 minutes the other night or something like that i froget who against but i sat and thought and said…thats not bad