Milwaukee 99, Chicago 97
Andrew Bogut came up huge in the win for the Milwaukee Bucks, stopping their 4-game losing streak. While being out the past week with leg injuries, he returnd in a dominating performance, with 22 points, 15 rebounds, and four blocks. 14 of his 22 came in the second quarter to give the Bucks the lead.
Despite the Bulls being down by 14 at one stretch in the second half, the Bucks had only a 2 point lead with 7.1 seconds left. However, Chicago had used up all of …
On Sunday night, the Nets became the third team in history to start an NBA season 0-17. They are running out of excuses now, as players continue to return from injury. With a loss on Wednesday at home to the Mavericks, the Nets would own the NBA record of worst winless starts ever on their own.
I’ve been on some pretty bad teams in my basketball playing days (to none of my fault of course), but I can safely say I’ve never lost 17 straight games.
This must be what death feels …
Monday
Chicago @ Milwaukee – Derrick Rose takes on Brandon Jennings, as the two best young point guards in the East meet for the second time. In the first meeting, Jennings outscored Rose 25 to 16. However, Rose showed his poise scoring 10 of those in the fourth quarter to lead the bulls to a two point victory.
This is going to be a great matchup for years to come. On Monday night, it’s a big game for both teams who both come into the game with a four game losing …
Faith, adversity, family, respect, dedication, hard work.
Those are just a few adjectives used to describe former University of Vanderbilt standout, and current member of the Kepez Belediyesi Antalya team in Turkey, Shan Foster. For the first six years of his life, Shan grew up with his grandparents who were the first to instill the Christian faith that lies within Shan today. On a daily basis his grandparents would teach him about hard work and God, and each night they would kick back, relax and watch TV – mainly the news, …
LA Lakers 106, New Jersey 87
Hours after firing head coach Lawrence Frank, the New Jersey Nets tied the record for the worst start to a NBA season at 0-17 Sunday night, against the Lakers.
Kobe Bryant’s 30 points led L.A. to a 106-87 win last night at the Staples Center. Kobe actually out scored the entire Nets team in the first quarter 13-12, in a game where the Nets never really had a chance.
Pau Gasol added 20 of his own and the Lakers got solid play from Jordan Farmar off the bench with …
Power Rankings: Week 5
Now one month into the season, we are finding which teams are for real and which are just the Item of the Week. A few teams returned back to Earth: Atlanta, Milwaukee, & Portland, and teams that are playing how they should: LA Lakers, Utah, and San Antonio. No team has taken sole control of NBA dominance yet, but now we are going to be able to separate the contenders from pretenders. Let’s look at the rankings from The Ref’s eyes:
Biggest Gain: San Antonio (+9)
Biggest Drop: Atlanta …
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