December 24th, 2009 
Stephen Rhodes 
Posted in If you like fast-paced basketball, then you wouldn’t have been disappointed if you had been in attendance at the Oklahoma City Thunder-Phoenix Suns game Wednesday night at US Airways Center. Both teams, despite their frenetic pace,shot pretty well (Oklahoma City at 47.8% while Phoenix shot at exactly 50%); Kevin Durant and Amare Stoudemire were at [...]
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Durant’s Late Jumper Helps Thunder Edge Suns 117-113
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Knee Ailment To Sideline Pierce
As if the Boston Celtics need anyone else hurting right now, one of their star players will be unavailable as Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports is reporting that Paul Pierce is expected to miss about two weeks due to having a minor procedure on his right knee Wednesday. He was diagnosed with an infection [...]
Gasol Inks Extension With Lakers
I think that anyone who follows the NBA and the Los Angeles Lakers already knew that the possibility of forward Pau Gasol re-signing with the team was likely. The Lakers earlier on Wednesday, as reported by the Associated Press. signed the 7-footer to a three-year extension, which will keep him in Los Angeles until the [...]
Howard’s Muscle, Double-Double Helps Magic Make Rockets Vanish 102-87
Because the Houston Rockets are “size-challenged”, they tend to do what the Golden State Warriors do – play “small ball.” And that certainly didn’t change when they on Wednesday night visited Amway Arena to take on the Orlando Magic. As a matter of fact. because of their size disadvantage, they had an obstacle in their [...]
Kobe Drains 40, Lakers Escape Thunder 111-108
One of these days, the Los Angeles Lakers will need to learn not to subsist on Kobe Bryant’s offense in order to win on a daily basis, because some unsuspecting team will come and expose them. The Lakers on Tuesday night hosted the Oklahoma City Thunder at Staples Center and truth be told, they got [...]
Redick, Lewis Lead Late Charge; Magic Quiets Jazz 104-99
Typically when you need offense out of the Orlando Magic late in the game, you usually think of either Dwight Howard, Vince Carter or even Rashard Lewis. But an unlikely source came to the forefront during the Magic-Utah Jazz game on Monday night. The suspect? Oddly enough, J.J. Redick. As it appeared that the Jazz [...]
Slam Dunk Central NBA Power Rankings
Introducing our newest feature here at Slam Dunk Central; our NBA Power Rankings. We felt that starting our PowerRankings at this juncture of the season was an ideal time. Doing NBA PowerRankings in the preseason serves no genuine purpose, except to speculate. Now that the season’s nearly at the one-third mark, we feel we have reached the perfect time to [...]
Superman, Kobe Named NBA Players Of The Week
The NBA today announced their Eastern and Western Conference Players Of the Week for the week of December 14 through December 20; suffice it to say, the two announced players have won this award several times individually. The league announced that Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic and Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers [...]
