Backcourt Violations

Two Spurs games in two nights...egh. I hate watching the Spurs play basketball. I know its being played well and all...but it's so damn boring. Friend of mine, MS, used to drive me nuts in college with all that "Big Fundementals" talk about Tim Duncan. I've never been any less interested in watching a particular player, that I didn't actually hate.

San Antonio 90, Miami 89

Spurs only led 3 times in this game if I remember correctly. Heat had every chance to win this one and end their incredible losing streak, but lets face facts the Heat are patently awful. They are pretty much the only reason I'm not taking daily shots at Isiah Thomas.

Golden State 121, New Jersey 119

Now THAT'S entertaining basketball. Of course Golden State's lack of ability to play defense allowed this game to be close. And god bless Don Nelson. He brought on little used euro rook Marco Belinelli specifically to foul woeful free throw shooter Josh Boone. IN THE THIRD QUARTER. It was hilarious, and the look on Boone's face was priceless. Also Monta Ellis might have a quicker first step than Barbosa. Just a thought.

Backcourt Violations

Quite a nice little day of basketball for me (watched 4 games). Major news for the day, Carmelo Anthony might be hurt. I'm sure thats exactly what MLK Jr. wanted on his day of rememberance...a crapload of basketball games. But I sure wasn't complaining.
San Antonio 95, Charlotte 86

Rumors of San Antonio's demise were greatly exaggerated. Duncan was Duncan, Manu and TP showed up, and someone even remembered to plug in Michael Finley's batteries overnight. People need to realize they don't start paying attention 'til April.

Washington 102, Dallas 84

Break up the Wiz. 4th in conference, and no set date for Gilbert Arenas return. They're actually playing DEFENSE, who'd have thunk it.

Boston 109, New York 93

Ejections aplenty. Quentin Richardson, last reported missing on a milk carton, got ejected as well as Paul Pierce, who seems to have horrible temper when playing bad teams. Kendrick Perkins (huh) dropped 22 in the first half. Precursor to the worst superbowl ever.

Portland 111, Atlanta 109, OT

Travis Outlaw with the game winner. I mean, do they even consider rushing Oden back at all at this point.

Utah 109, LA Clippers 93

Utah picks up a road win against a Clipper team thats either going through the motions, bad, or both. Seems there was a Matt Harpring sighting as well. White people still have hope (hahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahah)

New Orleans 106, Milwaukee 92

Chris Paul is the best PG in the NBA.

Minnesota 109, Golden State 108

When you play as out of control as the Warriors do (by design) sometimes you lose to the red headed bastard step child of the NBA.

Memphis 104, Chicago 90

Memphis best player is named Gay. Bulls don't have a best player. 'Nuff said.

Orlando 102, Detroit 100

'Shard earned his (ridiculously overpriced) keep with the game winner. But to get to that point, Chauncey Billups literally took 4 steps after a dribble to tie it at 100. Who needs crooked refs, the bad ones are enough to fix games on their own.