Bulls 101, Celtics 93
Derrick Rose must have heard me and Shooter bash the hell out of him on the podcast because in the biggest game of the year for the Bulls he stepped with a career high 39 points and one NASTY dunk.  Rose is now averaging over 20 ppg this year after carrying the entire Bulls team in this last stretch run.  Rose was 15-22 from the field and his counterpart Hinrich dropped 30 himself!  It was a pretty evenly matched game as both teams had under 10 turnovers, …

Before I get into tonight’s wrap ups, there were no exciting games as it was blowouts galore last night, and everybody loves that. There were a total of 8 games but only two are worthy to be mentioned. Anyway, let’s get to the action.
Boston 105, Milwaukee 90
Milwaukee has been playing well since Andrew Bogut went down, but tonight, they ran out of gas in the 4th.
Going into the final quarter, the Bucks were only down three, and they were playing well at home, which is usually what they do. However, …

Bobcats 95, Wizards 86
Al Thornton’s three pointer with eight seconds left in regulation knotted the game up at 82 points a piece, forcing overtime.  From there the Charlotte Bobcats outscored the Washington Wizards by nine points to come away with a win on the road.  Gerald Wallace led the Bobcats with an impressive 17 points, 19 rebounds, and 3 steals.  Boris Diaw also added 17 and Stephen Jackson chipped in with 16 points as well.  Mike Miller held it down for the Wizards scoring 15 points and JaVale McGee added …

Nuggets 102, Hornets 95
Down two going into the fourth, Carmelo Anthony saved his best for last.  Melo scored twelve of his thirty two points in the final frame.   Melo and Chauncey Billups helped break an 86 to 86 tie with six minutes to go outscoring the Hornets by nine in that stretch.  Billups ended up with 27 points and Nene added 17 points and 12 rebounds.  As much as I want to talk about the Nuggets winning this game, I cannot help but notice that both New Orleans Hornets …

Nuggets 119, Thunder 90
Forget that the Nuggets held the surging Thunder to twelve points in the 3rd quarter.  Forget Carmelo Anthony’s 30 points, Nene’s 20 points, and J.R. Swish’s 18 points off the bench.  Forget the fact that the Nuggets kept Kevin Durant under the 20 points mark for only the sixth time all season.  All that matters is that Renaldo Balkman (my favorite player) is finally back from his back injury.  In this 30 point blow out, my dude put up 2 points (1-4 FG, 0-3 3FG), 2 rebounds, …

In spite of probably THE craziest day we’ve had on NBAToday, there was some basketball played on Thursday. TNT did not disappoint, with two high-flying matchups that featured what many thought to be the two best teams in each conference (arguably).
So, instead of going through the normal wrapup, lets play “Five Things You Should Takeaway From Game”.
Nuggets 118, Cavs 116 (OT)
1. Carmelo is a top 3 player in the NBA. Maybe top 2. I’ll grudgingly argue that Kobe is the best player (which pains me). But as far as this …

This new NBA commercial aired during All-Star Weekend and I immediately fell in love with it.  This short 30 second commercial has superstars talking about hitting game winning shots in auto-tune.  I’m not going to lie, I actually went on my Mac and looped the song and listen to it when I go to the gym to get me pumped up.  For those who have not seen it yet you can watch it here.
 
-JB