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Scott Skiles paid for the 9-16 record of the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday by losing his job. The Bulls last game was a 116-98 loss at the hands of the Houston Rockets. The Bulls were booed heavily throughout the game from the 22,434 in attendance. After the game Bulls center Ben Wallace said he would welcome a front office change.
“That’s one of those things that goes along with this league,” said Wallace. “Change is not always bad. If everybody wants to be here we have to step it up and go out there and play basketball.”
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Dwayne Wade Wins Game For Heat With Buzzer Beater
Posted by Milo Taibi Categories: Athletes, NBA, Scoreboard,
It hasn’t exactly been a year to remember for the Miami Heat, and their 8-19 record will be the first to tell you. However last night when tied with mere seconds to go, Wade nailed a 20 foot jumper to give the Miami Heat the 104-102 advantage over the Utah Jazz. Dwayne had 20 points on the night and had help from Shaquille O’Neal who had 17 points and 10 rebounds.
“I just hope seven, eight, nine games from now, somebody will say, ‘Do you remember the bounce?”’ Heat coach Pat Riley said. “Something like that can propel you.”
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Spurs Beat Grizzlies; Jump Out To 2-0 record
Posted by Milo Taibi Categories: Athletes, NBA, Scoreboard,
Manu Ginobli scored 30 points, and both Tony Parker and Tim Duncan scored 17 points en route to a 104-101 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies. Francisco Elson also nabbed 11 boards in just 21 minutes of action. Although with just 2 games under their belts, the Spurs jumped out to an early first place lead in the Southwest division.
“I feel great right now. It seems to be paying off,” Ginobili said. “I don’t know what that means a few months from now, but right now I feel really fresh.”
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The top pick in the June NBA draft, Greg Oden, will be out for the season. Oden had micro-fracture surgery on his knee, and will be on crutches for the next 8 weeks.
“Greg looked at me as he was coming out of his surgery, and he and his mom, Zoe, probably said ‘sorry’ 20 times,” Blazers general manager Kevin Pritchard said. “I could feel the weight of the world on his shoulders. And as a leader and as leaders of this organization, my first thought was how lucky we were to have a guy that cares about the organization that much.”
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Johan Santana was impeccable on Sunday. In a game where offense was few and far between, Johan Santana took the rubber against the Texas Rangers to throw 8 innings, allow just 2 hits yield no walks and strike out 17 befuddled Ranger batters. The only run scored in the game was a second inning blast from Minnesota Twin Michael Cuddyer. The Twins took this game 1-0. Brad Wilkerson, Marlon Byrd and Gerald Laird all had the hat trick, three strikeouts, for the Rangers. Strangely enough, accomplished hitter Michael Young was the only Ranger with the golden sombrero, four strikeouts. To put Santana’s performance into perspective, 17 out of 24 outs came by the strikeout variety. Joe Nathan shut the door for Minnesota by notching his 27th save in the ninth innings.
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Over the last few months Andrei Kirilenko has complained about playing time, his teammates, his coaches, and his team’s playoff struggles. Despite that, coach Jerry Sloan is adamant he wants the Russian to stick it out with Utah.
“We’re gonna keep him, as far as I’m concerned,” coach Jerry Sloan said Monday. Sloan has a history of disliking trading his star players or letting them go without a fight (until they lose the other player that made them good in the first place, and then want out to “win” a championship before they retire and hope people remember them for the good they did, not the greed they showed at the end of their career), but he did admit that “...we’ve got to do what’s best for the franchise, always.”
Will Andrei stay in Utah? Who knows. He’s the Jazz’s highest paid player, and three years ago their best by far. Recently he’s been playing horribly for the Jazz, partly due to the fact new players have forced him into a forward role he’s not comfortable with. If the Jazz want Kirilenko to return to form, they need to give him more freedom on offense. The days of Stockton and Malone are over, Jerry. Let the Russian guy do things his own way.
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Kobe wants to be traded…again
Posted by Brendon Lindsey Categories: Athletes, Front Office, NBA, Trades,
Kobe Bryant met with Lakers owner Jerry Buss in Barcelona, and guess what? He wants to be traded again. Within the past month Kobe has demanded to be traded, changed his mind and claimed he would never leave L.A., and then demanded to be traded again. Can we officially change Kobe’s name to Sybil yet?
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According to ESPN, Larry Brown is looking to get back into coaching, perhaps with the Sacramento Kings. After a horrible year going 23-59 with the Knicks, Brown doesn’t “...want to end my career at 23-59. I feel I can do better.” Recently Brown was linked to the Bobcats and Grizzlies, but as those vacancies have been filled Sacramento may be his final choice this season, assuming Cleveland fans don’t run Mike Brown out of town.
Brown, 66, has coached 11 teams in the NBA, ABA and NCAA, including two championship teams—one for the NBA Detroit Pistons, and one for the NCAA Champion Kansas Jayhawks (1988).
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Grant Hill not ready to voluntarily retire just yet
Posted by Brendon Lindsey Categories: Athletes, NBA, News, Rumors,
Seems like Grant Hill doesn’t want to hang up his orthopedic shoes just quite yet, after all. Working as an analyst at the NBA Finals seemed to cement Grant’s desire to return to the NBA next season, rather than fuel his desire to leave and begin his broadcasting career.
“I love it here at the finals. It makes me want to play in the finals. Being in this situation is what you should play for,” he said. “It’s a real motivating factor right now. It’s the goal of every player to reach this point. That’s what I want.”
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Blogging our way through Game 4 of the NBA Finals
Posted by Brendon Lindsey Categories: Championship, NBA,
Game 4 of the NBA Finals begins shortly, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the San Antonio Spurs are on the cusp of eliminating the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Spurs winning 4-0 would be fitting, given the great lengths the NBA has gone through to try and tie in the new Fantastic Four movie. (We get it, Duncan, LeBron, Manu, and Parker are like the Fantastic Four, but without superpowers, without saving the world, and competing against one another.)
So far this series, Duncan and Parker have been absolutely trashing the Cavs, while Manu has been fairly sporadic in his playing, like normal. Can the Cavs manage to win one at home in their first Finals in the Age of LeBron? Will the Spurs continue to make basketball boring for the casual fan? How many times will we be reminded about Robert Horry’s accomplishments, and will we be treated to several more on-screen appearances by Brent Barry? Most likely: no, yes, seventeen, and yes.
Stick around EndScore and refresh this page every now and then, as I’ll be constantly blogging my thoughts while watching the game unfold—unless I fall asleep, that is.
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