NBA Weekend Update
Pictured: Tim Duncan trying to heal his knee with his mind. Nice try.
Holly took one of her trademark nine hour bus ride to go to the Warriors-Sonics game last night, so The Post Up is going to be a little bit delayed. Hopefully she wasn’t burned alive by the flaming scoreboard. The sad news from yesterday is that Stephon Marbury’s father Don passed away. Our sympathies go out to the Marbury family. As you may have noticed, Stephon has been having an interesting to volatile early season. I’ll skip over any Knicks basketball talk out of respect.
The biggest on court news from over the weekend is obviously the Tim Duncan injury. They’re saying it’s a bruised right knee and sprained right ankle, nothing earth-shattering, but he’ll be missing some time and perhaps there could be lingering effects. You’ll never believe this, but the Spurs have the best record in the West right now. The photo on the left is Duncan trying to heal himself. You ain’t Adam/The Cheerleader from Heroes! Season Finale tonight.
Kevin Durant had his first monster game with 35 much-needed points in a Seattle win over Indiana. Dwight Howard had 30 and 23 in a loss to Phoenix. The Bulls scored 111 points against the Bobcats, the Pistons are putting up the points, the Jamario Moon feel-good story is still ongoing, Peyton’s little brother overcame three terrible quarters and three thousand of my meanest insults and text messages to friends to win a football game, Cleveland played without LeBron twice and lost twice - LeBron’s the MVP!, Golden State has won six in a row and nine of ten - Stephen Jackson’s the MVP! Huge overtime win for New Orleans over Dallas.
Other than all that, pretty standard. Not much going on.
We should have some Game Notes coming in from a few different places, possibly including the biggest game of the weekend. I’ll leave that up to your imagination. Feel free to fill in anything I skipped over in the comments.
Wintery mix Monday.
20 Responses to “NBA Weekend Update”
Dec.3 at 9:39 am
maio says:
LeBron MVP? No Doubt. Last year,too. Most Volatile Player is still Ron Ron.
Dec.3 at 9:40 am
maio says:
holy s*** first! Had I known I would have written something deep.
Dec.3 at 9:43 am
Keith says:
As long as Duncan is healthy come playoff time the Spurs have nothing to worry about.
Dec.3 at 9:47 am
Tariq says:
I can’t believe Eli was picked number 1 overall. He seems to me like a sniveling, pasty, slightly -less-disappointing version of Kwame Brown. I was laughing maniacally when he threw another pick on his first possession after the debacle against the Vikings.
Dec.3 at 9:51 am
Watford says:
By the power of Thor, i demand you to HEAL!
Dec.3 at 10:16 am
Joel O's says:
You know what, I think the Duncan injury probably won’t haunt them, just because Pop is smart enough to make sure Duncan’ll be rested and won’t rush him back too soon. Anyway, it doesn’t really matter what seed you are in the Western playoffs - the last few years’ 5th to 8th seeds have been very, very good, so it really won’t hurt them even if the Spurs’ record suffers.
Dec.3 at 10:20 am
Cheryl says:
I saw that injury and it was really scary the way he went down. I’m glad they don’t think it’s too serious. I bet Pop wishes he had Scola right about now.
Dec.3 at 10:27 am
Paps says:
Heroes sucks.
Dec.3 at 10:50 am
Jared says:
Stack Jack is the MVP…and Eli finished strong…7-9 on his final two drives? Big 4th quarter…where I’m from that’s called clutch
Dec.3 at 10:53 am
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Dec.3 at 11:02 am
TADOne says:
The Pistons are finally starting to click on all cylinders with contributions from everyone on the team. And yes, LeBron is MVP so far. Cleveland sucks without him.
Dec.3 at 11:06 am
Rasheedionics says:
Does anyone really read play by play game notes. We already know who won the game. Why do we need to know how it happened to the very last detail? Just wondering… That’s even worse than listening to the game on the radio.
Dec.3 at 11:26 am
Keith says:
Sh*t…is that right about Ron rons daughter?
Dec.3 at 11:35 am
Jake says:
The Spurs should be ranked higher than the Celtics. Celtics are in a much easier conference when compared to the Spurs yet the Spurs have only lost 1 more.
Dec.3 at 11:52 am
Sam Rubenstein says:
Jared, you call it finishing strong and clutch, I call it not playing like a (expletive) (expletive) (expletive) (expletive) (expletive) (expletive) piece of (expletive) for a little bit. Toomer bailed him out on the TD spike into the ground disguised as a throw. And thank you Grossman/Chicago!
Dec.3 at 11:59 am
white hot eboy says:
Sam, a win’s a win. Dude’s throw to set up the winning score was NOT an easy play to make, regardless of his okey-doke persona, Howdy-doody look of ignorance, and Woody from Toy Story body.
Dec.3 at 12:04 pm
Simone Lawy says:
lets pray for ron’s daughter….wish her’ll be okay
Dec.3 at 12:13 pm
Bryan says:
Eli is a bitch.
Dec.3 at 12:41 pm
RV says:
Did anyone see Tmac’s new haircut against the Kings?? Bill Worrell said the King’s barber made a stop at practice and cut some of the Rockets’ hair…have they not seen Kmartin’s head? Artest’s? Miller’s?
Dec.3 at 12:59 pm
d.Y. says:
dark times for a lot of athletes these days. whooo for mvp… you know what, it’ll be huge if he even gets a vote. i hope he does. oh and sheed, fame notes are dope when you’ve missed a game, or when they’re mad funny like the ones here can be…