January 23, 200719 yr HT, Today is the 1 year anny of your boy's 81 he put up against the Raptors. & he put up just over half that tonight (42) in a win for the Lakers.
January 23, 200719 yr Author HT, Today is the 1 year anny of your boy's 81 he put up against the Raptors. I know it was all over the NBA site. I had a feeling he might have a big night last night. I wasn't able to stay awake last night to watch it on game tracker. The weekend killed me.
January 23, 200719 yr Author http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=270122007 DENVER (AP) -- Allen Iverson raced downcourt and floated an alley-oop lob that Carmelo Anthony shoved one-handed through the hoop for an arena-rattling jam, one that seemed to holler to all their doubters, "Take that!" "We just wanted to show the whole world we could play together," Anthony said after the duo's triumphant debut Monday night. "We know there's a lot of doubt about that." Anthony scored 28 points in his return from a 15-game suspension for fighting and Iverson added 23 in the Denver Nuggets' 115-98 rout of the Memphis Grizzlies. The two are out to prove two superstars can coexist. So far, so very, very good.
January 24, 200719 yr http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/01/23/mcnamara/index.html McNamara back in U.S. after sour Greece experience Following a stellar four-year career at Syracuse, where he started all 134 games, won the national championship in 2003 and led the team in scoring (16.4 points) his senior season, McNamara had high hopes for a successful pro career. But shortly after his college season ended in March, McNamara suffered a serious groin injury that limited his play and slowed him at the NBA pre-draft camps. "I'm not making any excuses," McNamara said in a telephone interview, "but it slowed me down. I wasn't able to do a lot of work and when I did play, I wasn't at the top of my game." After the NBA passed him over -- McNamara said it was frustrating watching guys "you've never heard of" get picked in the second round of the draft -- McNamara signed with powerful Greek club Olympiacos BC, which was voted by FIBA as Europe's best team in the 1990s after winning five A-1 championships and one Euroleague title in the decade. The European game is traditionally more similar to American college basketball, with an up-tempo style of play. And for McNamara, it was more than an opportunity to play. It was a chance to gain a measure of financial security for his family, which included his new fiancee, Katie. Olympiacos signed him to a $200,000 contract. "It looked like a great situation," said McNamara, who was one of five American players on the Olympiacos roster. "They pursued me all summer, even when I was hurt." The courtship, however, turned sour shortly after McNamara's arrival. After years of serving as Jim Boeheim's coach on the floor at Syracuse, McNamara never got on the same page with Olympiacos head coach Pini Gershon. The result: The Big East's all-time leader for three-pointers made suited up for just one game, playing a grand total of 30 seconds. "For whatever reason, I just wasn't getting the playing time," McNamara said. "The coach had his idea of what he wanted his team to be and I wasn't part of it. [but] when I signed we discussed me playing, not sitting there in street clothes." McNamara's agent, Bill Neff, quickly negotiated the guard's release. "I could have lived with the situation if I had the opportunity to play and I failed," said McNamara, who added that he didn't have any conversations with Gershon or the Olympiacos front office about his lack of playing time. "The way I figure it, if I was going to sit on a bench, I wouldn't have gone halfway around the world to do it. I would never have gone there knowing that it would have turned out the way it did." Despite the setback, McNamara returned Stateside eager to resume his career. The CBA's Albany Patroons selected McNamara in the sixth round (with the next-to-last pick in the entire draft) in September, after he had agreed to play in Greece. McNamara, however, preferred to play in the NBDL, and in December he signed with the Bakersfield Jam for a prorated salary of $18,000. For those keeping score, that's a $182,000 pay cut. "I want to play in the NBA and I saw this as my best shot," McNamara said. "I'm more comfortable with this style of game, with the isolation and the pick-and-rolls. And this league is better than people think." Whether McNamara will get a shot in the NBA remains to be seen. In 15 games with the Jam, McNamara is averaging 12.9 points and 6.3 assists in 29.9 minutes. But he is also shooting just 41.5 percent from the field, including 29.5 percent from behind the three-point line. "You look at him and you want to see Mark Price," said one NBA scout who has seen McNamara play. "But he's just not as quick as Price and he doesn't play great defense. What it's going to come down to is if he is mentally tough enough to accept that on this level he can't do the things he used to be able to do in college." At the very least he will get the opportunity. "I just want to play," McNamara said. And if he gets stuck sitting on, say, an NBA bench sometime in the future? "Believe me," he said. "I would have no problem with that." Around the D-League • The biggest question the D-League is facing is expansion, particularly when (or if) it will expand to the Northeast. That may happen soon if NBA commissioner David Stern has anything to say about it. "We are pretty far along on that track," Stern told SI.com of the league's plan to expand to the Northeast corridor. "The Northeast, because of travel issues, probably needs a three-team pod. Though we are not there yet, we are mindful that basketball's minor league roots [are in the Northeast] and we think it will again be an important NBA minor league success story." • Austin's deal that sent forward Scott Merritt to Tulsa for guard Cheyne Gadson would hardly be noteworthy if not for the fact that deals in the D-League, well, rarely happen. Monday's trade was just the second this season and only the seventh in the league's six-year history. • If you're looking for the next NBA call-up, keep an eye on Colorado's Von Wafer. "Wafer is an NBA player right now," one NBA scout said. "The only question is who is going to be the one to get him." Wafer, a 6-5 guard from Florida State, is averaging 20.6 points and shooting 47.8 percent from behind the three-point line.
January 24, 200719 yr This is funny. Tony Mejia from sportsline had a rant about Isiah and his coaching when Miami went on their 27-0 run on Monday... Isiah Thomas, you need to go. Your actions on Monday night are unforgivable. Somehow, you thought it would be a good idea to let your Knicks play through Miami's franchise-record 27-0 run. Jason Kapono and Udonis Haslem hit practically every shot they took while the Knicks just stood around and watched. The Heat went on to win 101-83 without Dwyane Wade and Shaquille O'Neal. "This is the first time that I have been with this group that we didn't show up," Thomas said. "By the time we showed up, the game was over. "There is no strategy for being down 29-3. As professionals and as men, you have to step out on that floor and compete against the other player. There is no strategy for lying down and taking it." You got one right. There's no excuse for allowing a team to get carved up like a Thanksgiving turkey by not calling a single timeout when it became clear one was needed. You let the Knicks down, just like they let you down. Look, there's no doubt you were a fabulous basketball player, among the best floor generals of your generation. You were tough, arrogant, brilliant and dominant. Anyone who saw you play respects you. As a coach, though, you're a failure. Sadly, the exact traits that made you so valuable as a superstar fail you in the role you occupy now. It doesn't build character to take a 27-0 beating. It builds catastrophe. Bob Knight coached you at Indiana? You didn't pick up anything from him? As hot-headed as he is, Knight would never have allowed his team to be embarrassed the way you did. You left your team out there to die, and it should be no surprise that they died. It's what you set them up to do. The New York Knicks are a joke. Thanks to bad management, they were awful before you got there. Your bravado made everyone, including owner James Dolan, believe you had the remedy. You don't. You have no idea. You're clueless to the point where it hurts to watch. A 27-0 run without a timeout? Are you even trying? http://www.sportsline.com/nba/story/9950045 The funny part? According to the play by play on his own web site Isiah called two timeouts in the run. One at 8:57 and one at 6:28. http://www.sportsline.com/nba/gamecenter/playbyplay/NBA_20070122_NY@MIA Nice work Tony... :lol:
January 25, 200719 yr Anybody an insider on for the NBA on espn.com... http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/insider/columns/story?columnist=sheridan_chris&page=gasol-trades&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab5pos1&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fnba%2finsider%2fcolumns%2fstory%3fcolumnist%3dsheridan_chris%26page%3dgasol-trades%26lpos%3dspotlight%26lid%3dtab5pos1 Where will Pau Gasol go? Here's nine possibilities Pau Gasol wants out of Memphis, and Grizzlies president Jerry West is probably going to trade him to keep everyone happy. But there's no guarantee a deal will happen before the Feb. 22 trade deadline, because this is not the same type of situation that Allen Iverson went through leaving Philadelphia, or Ron Artest did in leaving Indiana. West can keep Gasol and try trading him again over the summer, and if Pau doesn't like it, too bad. "There's no fire sale here," West insists. But since a Gasol trade seems inevitable -- eventually -- let's look at some of the possibilities.
January 25, 200719 yr Author http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=270124011 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Danny Granger scored 14 of his 16 points in the fourth quarter and overtime as the Indiana Pacers rallied from a 20-point second-half deficit to beat the Miami Heat 96-94 Wednesday night. The Pacers' victory spoiled the return of Shaquille O'Neal, who came off the bench after missing 35 games while recovering from knee surgery. O'Neal finished with five points and five rebounds in 14 minutes. Dwyane Wade, who missed Miami's victory at New York on Monday due to a sprained left ankle, scored 32 points. After trailing 65-45 in the third quarter, the Pacers pulled to 70-66 on two 3-pointers by Granger and one by Darrell Armstrong to begin the fourth. Marquis Daniels' runner 4 minutes later gave Indiana a 75-74 lead, its first since early in the first quarter. The Pacers built a six-point lead with 1:30 left, but consecutive 3-pointers by Jason Kapono and Wade down the stretch tied the score at 87 with 17 seconds remaining :D
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