April 8th, 2010 
Stephen Rhodes 
Posted in If you’re a paying customer and fan of a NBA team, imagine this. Your team is rallying from a deficit – successfully, I might add – and hold off their opponent to gain the win. While that is impressive, imagine that your team does this without their star point guard and the player in question [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Suns Snap Spurs’ 4-Game Win Streak, Prevail 112-101
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Pacers Remain Hot At Conseco, Beat Knicks 113-105
I cannot, for the life of me, explain the recent surge by the Indiana Pacers as they have won seven of their last nine, prior to their game Wednesday night against the New York Knicks at Conseco Fieldhouse. If they had played this well around November or December, thye could be chasing a playoff berth in [...]
D-Will’s Late Jumper In OT Helps Jazz Outlast Thunder 140-139
Pure and simple, the game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Utah Jazz could have easily been confused with a track meet as both teams attempted 184 shots and shot 50 percent or better. Kevin Durant got his points, 45 of them to be exact, but unfortunately for him, they’d go to waste as Deron Williams [...]
Pistons Snap 11-Game Losing Streak, Decimate 76ers 124-103
It took 77 games for the Detroit Pistons to play perhaps their best game of the year. And they got an added bonus, of sorts, during their game against the Philadelphia 76ers at Wachovia Center. Seven Pistons players scored in double-digits while shooting a blistering 63 percent from the floor; as a result, Detroit easily [...]
Slam Dunk Central NBA Power Rankings
Funny how the best teams at times can play like a mediocre one, especially during crunch time, when playoff seeding means everything. Probably a good example is the Los Angeles Lakers; they’ve dropped four of its last six games (very un-championship-like), capping that funk with a 81-point effort last Sunday against the San Antonio Spurs. [...]
Spurs Clinch Playoff Berth, Spank Lakers 100-81
As most of the lower-seeded NBA teams tend to do with the regular season about to come to a close, they would prefer not to have to face the top-seeded team in their conference; the San Antonio Spurs are no different in that respect. I would suspect if they had their way about it, they [...]
Balanced Scoring Key As Bucks Get Past Suns 107-98, Bogut Hurt
While the Phoenix Suns are well on their way to the playoffs, the Milwaukee Bucks are on the verge of visiting the postseason. Both teams got together for a game Saturday night, with the contest holding special meaning for the Bucks as a win would put them closer to the playoffs. The game itself was [...]
Odom, Bryant Key 4th Quarter Boost; Lakers Pound Jazz 106-92
Usually when a star NBA player signs a contract extension, he has a sub-par effort on the floor after the ink has dried on the transaction. During Friday night’s game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Utah Jazz, Kobe Bryant – probably subliminally – realized he had 90 million reasons to guide his team to [...]
