The news arrived at Gregg Popovich's
doorstep in the dead of another brutal South Texas summer. The San Antonio Spurs
had been bounced out of the first round of the playoffs by the Memphis
Grizzlies, Tony Parker had headed home to France to start his vacation, and
suddenly there was a report coming across the Atlantic that the Spurs' point
guard was proclaiming their dynasty days officially over. Tim Duncan and Manu
Ginobili were getting old, Parker said.
"We will always have a good team," the
French media reported Parker as saying, "but we can no longer say that we're
playing for a championship."
Naturally, this didn't play well at 21
Spurs Lane. "I thought the same thing Pop said," Ginobili recalled. " 'Shut up!'
"
Ginobili says this with a laugh. Parker
quickly denied the report, saying his true comments had been lost in
translation, and, besides, who cares now? All that matters is what Parker did
next: When the NBA lockout ended, he arrived more committed, more focused, more
driven, than ever.
Parker has carried the Spurs through this
magical season and he carried them again Tuesday night. His 34 points and eight
assists came amid a dazzling display of shot-making that staggered the Oklahoma
City Thunder and delivered the Spurs their 20th consecutive victory and a 2-0
lead in the Western Conference finals. For much of the 120-111 victory, he ran
the Spurs' offense to near-perfection as San Antonio carved up the Thunder with
quick, crisp passing.
"When you have Coach Pop screaming at you
every day," Parker said, "it will make you pass the ball."
Parker didn't arrive here overnight. He's
weathered Popovich's scolding for years and emerged stronger for it. The
tug-of-war between point guard and coach has played out over the seasons, and
the growing pains Parker and Popovich endured are not unlike those that now test
the Thunder's Russell Westbrook and Scott Brooks.
Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers
looked far from a championship contender in their Western Conference semifinal
series loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder this spring.
So, who do the Lakers need to get back on
top?
Here we examine three players who would
drastically improve the Lakers and help Kobe Bryant challenge for his sixth NBA
title.
Dwight Howard
LA should look to send center Andrew
Bynum to Orlando along with either a first-round draft pick or perhaps involve
Pau Gasol in a three-team trade that brings Superman to Hollywood. Bynum is two
years younger than Howard and doesn't have an ailing back, so he's the guy the
Magic would most likely want in return.
If the Lakers can pull off a Bynum-Howard
deal without having to part ways with one of their seven-footers, Gasol, then
they would easily be considered a threat to win it all in 2013.
Lamar Odom
Arguably the biggest difference for the
LA Lakers this past postseason was the void in the frontcourt left by Lamar
Odom, who was traded to the defending champion Dallas Mavericks after he had a
falling out with the front office following the lockout. The ill feelings came
after a botched trade involving Odom.
The Mavericks actually asked Odom to go
home late in the season before the playoffs began because he was so unhappy and
bad in Big D. Odom played in 50 games last season, averaging 6.6 points per game
and shooting a dismal 35 percent from the field.
Odom was a big-time sixth man for the
Lakers during their latest championship run and averaged a double-double in two
of his seven seasons in LA.
Randy Foye
LA Clippers point guard Randy Foye
wouldn't have to go far if he were to join the Lakers this offseason. The
sharpshooting Foye hit more than 38 percent of his shots from downtown last
season, and averaged 11 points in less than 26 minutes per game.
Foye isn't a phenomenal passer, but is a
definite shooting upgrade over Ramon Sessions, who has a $4.6 million player
option this summer. Considering that the basketball flows through Kobe Bryant on
most nights, LA might be better off acquiring shooters to surround the Black
Mamba.
In the field of human endeavor, perhaps
nothing unites us all more than simple incompetence. Haplessness. Borderline
failure. We all experience this, and for some it approaches a daily
condition.
These repeated brushes with our own
limitations teach us humility, resilience, and charity towards
others.
A rare group that is sometimes spared
this experience is the four hundred or so on-court employees of the National
Basketball Association. This elite group has been groomed for basketball stardom
for years, some as early as age eleven or twelve. Lured onto AAU squads, seduced
by top colleges, tested and selected by one of thirty teams—these lives have
often been centered entirely around this one activity, and it is an activity at
which they are better than virtually anyone else in the world.
The Bucks’ phenom Brandon Jennings, for
example, was the best player on the court in almost every single game he played
from age ten thru eighteen; then, after a strange, workmanlike year in Italy, he
entered the pros and was quickly one of the best rookies in the league, joining
this strange fraternity: The Men Who Have Never Tasted Incompetence. Setbacks,
sure; hard work, no doubt—the energy and dedication of these players is
exhausting to even contemplate. But few or none have ever had the delicious
experience of being bad at basketball.
But that is about to change. The rest of
us have sent an ambassador into the pros. A player who was picked last on the
playground courts. A player who, in his first high-school game, scored a basket
for the opposing team. A man who expected to graduate college with a degree in
Fine Arts. That man is Larry Sanders of the Milwaukee Bucks, the fifteenth pick
in this year’s pro draft and one of the most intriguing young talents in the
league.
Sanders was born and raised on the
Atlantic coast of Florida. For most of his childhood, he had little interest in
basketball.
“I wasn’t good. I was just tall,” Sanders
said in a past interview. “I was usually that guy who, when I played pickup
basketball, I’d get picked first and then I’d never get picked again. That was
me. Guys were like, "We’re not picking him again."
Nevertheless, Coach Kareem Rodriguez of
Port St. Lucie High School saw something in Sanders, and invited him to come to
tryouts his sophomore year. “Girls’ volleyball had the gym, so we went to the
court outside,” says Rodriguez. “From the first time I saw him play, I knew he
was special.” Nevertheless, the rules of organized basketball were still
unfamiliar. In Sanders’ first official game, he wasn’t aware of the halftime
side-change and sunk his now-legendary layup for the opposition. Rodriguez had
his work cut out for him: “If I had a dollar for every three-second call he got,
I could have retired,” he says now.
But Sanders was ready to learn. “The
beauty of him being so raw was that he didn’t have any bad habits.” says
Rodriguez. “He was a blank slate.” Sanders steadily improved, and in his junior
year he caught the eye of coaches at Virginia Commonwealth University. By the
end of his senior year he was named first-team all-state, averaging 19 points
and 13 rebounds a game. Now 6’11”, he had drawn attention from many larger
programs—but VCU had already won his commitment.
At VCU, he teamed with point guard Eric
Maynor (now of the Oklahoma City Thunder) to dominate the Colonial Athletic
Association, winning the regular-season championships in both of their years
together. “He learned faster than anybody I’ve ever seen,” says Shaka Smart,
coach of the VCU Rams. Sanders was named to the CAA all-defensive team his
freshman year, and then Defensive Player of the year the following year. He
claimed the award again his junior year, while also leading the team in scoring
and rebounds, and decided to declare for the 2010 draft.
Sanders was selected by the Milwaukee
Bucks with the 15th pick. Already impressing the Bucks with his otherworldly
wingspan and speed, onlookers are expecting great things from Sanders. “It’s
still just the tip of the iceberg,” says Smart. “He’s very savvy, emotionally
ready, and mentally ready.” Sanders will pair with Andrew Bogut in an impressive
frontcourt, hopefully soon relegating Drew Gooden to the ducktail dustbin of
history. His athleticism should allow him to blend nicely with the
already-scrappy Milwaukee squad: “Brandon Jennings will be able to create a lot
of opportunities, the way Eric Maynor did at VCU,” says Smart.
For many rookies, entrance to the pros
can be a shock. For many, it’s their first time not being the best player on
their team. For some, it’s even a taste of being (relatively) not very good at
basketball. Many of these young players are never able to make the
adjustment—never able to reshape their game, find their roles, persevere and
fight through failure. For Sanders, it’s simply a return to a familiar
challenge. “Having not always been the best, it keeps him humble,” says
Rodriguez. “He stays hungry.” Not content to rely on his physical gifts, he’s
been developing low-post moves and adding a reliable jumper out to fifteen
feet.
“The thing I learned about basketball is
it doesn’t lie to you,” said Sanders in an interview this summer. “When you put
in the work, the repetition, and you work harder, you’re going to get better.”
For Larry Sanders, the work has just begun.
Sixers legend Allen Iverson left
Philadelphia under not-so-great circumstances twice — first, when he was traded
to the Denver Nuggets in December 2006, and then again in 2010 after a short,
controversy-filled return to the franchise. Despite those exits, Iverson is
still much-loved in Philly. He led the franchise emotionally and on the court
for more than a decade, and his toughness (mixed with a lot of frustration,
naturally) helped the city identify with him. Simply put, he's the most
important Philadelphia athlete of the past 25 years, no matter how often Eagles
fans still complain about former quarterback Donovan McNabb.
On Wednesday night, the currently
unemployed Iverson returned to the Wells Fargo Center to present the game ball
before tip-off of the Sixers' Game 6 win against the Boston Celtics. His initial
appearance was brief: He walked out in head-to-toe Sixers apparel (including a
jersey with the No. 23 of Louis Williams, the most Iversonian member of the
team), presented the ball, shook some hands, gave some hugs, and left the court
to watch the game. Through it all, the home crowd gave him a huge
ovation.
It's very easy to view this turn of
events as sad for Iverson, particularly if you believe the overblown and
reductive reports that he's broke. Yet, from another perspective, Iverson's
situation is just another event in the life of someone who never went quietly
and stayed himself even when standards deemed him reckless and immodest. For
years, AI thrived on tenacity and perseverance on the court, playing through
injury even when medical logic suggested he was falling apart. As a cultural
figure, he embraced street style and became the poster boy for all moralists'
claims that the NBA was a league of thugs. At all times, he's done what he wants
to do with little care for what the general population thought of
him.
Kobe Bean Bryant is a shooting guard who
has played for the Los Angeles Lakers since 1996, a span in which the team has
won five NBA championships. Over the course of his career, Bryant has won two
NBA scoring titles and has been a first-team All-NBA selection eight times. He
is a 14-time All Star and four-time All-Star MVP. Although known for his
offensive ability, Kobe Bryant has also made a name for himself on the defensive
side of the ball, having been named to the NBA's All Defensive First Team eight
times. Kobe Bryant scored the second-most points in a game in NBA history when
he posted 81 points in a game during the '06-07 season.
Kobe first started learning basketball
from his father at the age of three. He idolized Magic Johnson growing up
because of Magic's ball handling skills for a bigger player, and claimed the Los
Angeles Lakers as his favorite team.
Joe Bryant was traded to the Houston
Rockets when Kobe was still very young, and after only one season in Houston,
the Bryant family packed up and moved to Italy so Joe could continue his
professional basketball career. Joe Bryant signed with a team in the town of
Rieti. The three Bryant children practiced Italian together after school, and
all became fairly fluent within the first year. To this day, Kobe Bryant still
speaks Italian.
Bryant will be 34 years old by the start
of next season, but his age and health should rank far down on the Lakers' list
of concerns. The Lakers' talented big men, Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum,
frustrated the team with their inconsistency and occasional indifference during
the playoffs. No one will be surprised if the Lakers explore trade offers for
one – or even both – of them. Point guard could again become a position of need.
The Lakers also were limited by their slow adjustment to coach Mike
Brown.
And yet Bryant is willing to gamble
considerable stakes against any critic who suggests the Lakers' championship
window has closed.
"Put your house on it," Bryant said. "I
would put my house on it. They can put their house on it, but I don't think they
want to bet that because they're not stupid. They're foolish, but they are not
stupid."
The Lakers were eliminated by the Thunder
in five games. In two of the losses, the Lakers unraveled in the final minutes.
Their lopsided defeat in Game 5 again raised questions about the makeup of the
team. Bryant scored 42 points on Monday, but several of his teammates were far
less effective.
Gasol had 14 points and 16 rebounds, but
Bryant voiced his frustration with him throughout the game. Bynum had just 10
points and four rebounds in a foul-plagued performance. Point guard Ramon
Sessions missed five of his six shots and committed six turnovers. The Lakers'
bench was outscored 35-5.
"I'm not going to speak on the record
about it." Bryant said when asked about his teammates' play.
The Lakers trailed by six when Brown
elected to sit Bryant at the start of the fourth quarter. By the time Bryant
returned to the court less than two minutes later, the Lakers were down 14.
Bryant didn't complain publicly about Brown's decision to rest him.
"Obviously, I was in good rhythm," Bryant
said. "But that's what we do."
Bryant, Gasol and Bynum agree on at least
one thing: They think it's difficult to accurately judge the Lakers' season
after the departure of longtime coach Phil Jackson. With a shortened training
camp and a compressed 66-game schedule that afforded little practice time, the
players were forced to adjust to Brown and his system on the fly. Bryant said
Brown was still adding wrinkles to the Lakers' offense in the
playoffs.
“We were still changing what we were
executing, so that had a lot to do with it," Bryant said. "Normally, we know
exactly what we're going to do. I'm used to the triangle [offense] where we know
what we were going to do. This was something where we are still trying to guess
through it."
The Los Angeles Lakers trudged off the
Staples Center floor late Saturday, a single loss now separating them from
season's end, another fourth-quarter collapse once again causing their undoing.
They didn't show much poise in the locker room, either, with Kobe Bryant and
Andrew Bynum pointing blame at others for allowing the Oklahoma City Thunder to
steal their second victory in three games.
Bryant missed eight of his 10 shots in
the final quarter, but shrugged off his struggles by saying his teammates' lack
of aggressiveness "forced" him to take tough shots. He also left no question
which teammate deserved the most blame for the 103-100 loss in Game
4.
Bryant faulted Gasol for not playing
aggressive enough. It was also Gasol's turnover that led to Kevin Durant making
the winning 3-pointer with 13.7 seconds left.
"Pau's got to be more assertive," Bryant
said. "He's the guy they're leaving [open]. When he's catching the ball, he's
looking to pass. He's got to be aggressive. He's got to shoot the ball or drive
the ball to the basket. He will be next game."
Bryant has periodically targeted Gasol
with his public criticism, hoping to motivate him to lift his performance. But
with the Lakers now down 3-1 in the series and facing Game 5 on Monday in
Oklahoma City, Bryant's patience has been exhausted. Gasol's inconsistency has
been a problem for the Lakers throughout the season, and he never seemed to
recover after the team tried to trade him in December to the Houston Rockets in
a deal with the New Orleans Hornets for Chris Paul. NBA commissioner David Stern
blocked the trade, and Gasol has admitted his tenuous status with the franchise
has bothered him.
Gasol totaled just 10 points and five
rebounds in Game 4. Most recently, Bryant criticized both Gasol and Andrew Bynum
after a listless performance in a Game 6 loss to the Denver Nuggets in the first
round. Gasol responded with 23 points and 17 rebounds in the Lakers' clinching
Game 7 victory.
The Indiana Pacers have the length,
athleticism and defensive pedigree to create a rough night for even the most
prolific of scorers, but nobody could have expected this. The Pacers capably
defended their home court in Thursday night's 94-75 Game 3 victory over the
Miami Heat, holding Dwyane Wade to a horrific 2-for-13 night and LeBron James to
a 3-for-9 mark from the floor in the second half. Miami's frustration was
typified by a third-quarter jawing match between Wade and Heat coach Erik
Spoelstra, fueled by both Wade's sluggish play and a 52-29 run that helped the
Pacers pull away in the second and third quarters.
Indiana put Wade in this bad place. Not
only do the Pacers feature a litany of long wing defenders bent on chasing him
around his various screens, but the presence of All-Star center Roy Hibbert
loomed large in the win. Hibbert scored 19 points for Indiana, taking advantage
of that limited Miami front line, but his biggest impact came on the defensive
end as his length helped chase Wade and James into mid-range looks that they
could not connect on. Hibbert added 18 rebounds and five blocks, and his
individual defense in one significant fourth-quarter stretch almost singularly
quelled Miami's last chance at a comeback.
Spoelstra also refused to blame Wade's
woes on any possible injury, and pointed to the fact that just about every
active NBA player is banged up as they work through the second round of the
playoffs. LeBron James conceded Wade "wasn't himself," but refused to point to
any possible injury to Wade beyond "what we all have," referring to the typical
"bumps and bruises" that teams have to work through in mid-May. Wade, as you'd
expect -- "He'll never make excuses," Spoelstra said -- declined to admit to any
nagging injury and passed on discussing his third-quarter tiff with
Spoelstra.
While it's hard to imagine the graybeard
Duncan busting out a smartphone, it's not as tough to see the Pacers possibly
running away with this series. The Heat still have the best two players on the
court at any time, but Indiana can guard those best two with their best three or
even four, leaving centers wide open and forcing Mario Chalmers, who was
excellent with 25 points and zero turnovers before injuring his left wrist just
before the final buzzer, and Shane Battier, who was not, missing all seven of
his attempts from the field, to beat them. All of this can change with a few
tweaks from Spoelstra in Sunday's Game 4, and the Heat could take back
home-court advantage in a flash. But that would also have to involve the Pacers
backing off a bit.
Speedy New York Jets running back Joe
McKnight gained 16 pounds in the offseason in order to transform himself into a
more durable NFL running back. And how did he add the weight so
quickly?
"A lot of McDonald's," the 215-pound back
told reporters. "I ate healthy, but the majority of the time I was eating bad.
I'm not going to say I was eating all the right stuff like Tim
Tebow.
Oh, McDonald's, scapegoat of weight gains
worldwide. Why does it always have to be McDonald's that gets blamed? Sure, the
elite sneer at the golden arches (check out the comments section in this New
York Times Magazine article), but trendy burger joints like Shake Shack aren't
exactly Weight Watchers approved.
McKnight said he gained the weight and
then worked out to convert his bulk into muscle, but nobody heard that part
because they were all wondering what Tim Tebow eats. My guess: Grilled chicken,
half a plain baked potato, steamed broccoli and a glass of chocolate milk if
he's been an especially good boy.
The running back shouldn't have to go far
to get advice on weight loss. Portly Rex Ryan showed up at Jets minicamp looking
svelte after his lapband procedure. The coach has dropped 90 pounds since
January.
Early in the fourth quarter of Sunday's
Game 1 win, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra looked the NBA's MVP in the eye and said,
"You cannot get tired."Normally, LeBron James starts the final quarter on the
bench, but the coach decided the game was too close, Chris Bosh was out with an
injury and, as Spoelstra put it, "We needed him."James did not get tired. He had
16 points in the fourth quarter alone to help his team run away from the Pacers.
The newly minted MVP was unstoppable down the stretch.But why did it even come
to this?
Game 1 was surprisingly close throughout,
and the Heat didn't take control until the final minutes. James scored only six
points in the first half. He attempted two free throws. It seemed like every
play was James hustling the ball up court, slamming on the brakes, peeling back
and then throwing it to someone else. That's even what happened leading up to
Bosh's injury: James was close enough to the basket to finish or draw a foul,
but he deferred and Bosh got hurt underneath the glass. This isn't to say James
is responsible for a teammate's injury – he wasn't – but a bull in a china shop
shouldn't be so hesitant to, you know, break some things.
That's what's so maddening about James.
He's an MVP who isn't always MVP-ish. Even Wade said Sunday, "Sometimes he
starts out aggressive, sometimes he don't." We all know the answer: James wants
to be the consummate teammate. But Wade, who is a consummate teammate, is almost
always ferocious. "Flash" bolted for the basket from the beginning of Game 1
like a dad who saw his infant about to fall down the stairs. He went to the line
14 times and made 13 of his tries. There's no reason James shouldn't do the
same.
The calls that went for Pacers center Roy
Hibbert in the first round went against him Sunday, so it's not like the
referees aren't going to give him the benefit of the doubt. James himself calls
the Heat "an attack team," and it shouldn't take a close playoff game and an
injury to a teammate for him to attack. Go to the rack, go to the stripe, go to
the Finals.
For the sake of winning, Kobe Bryant
willingly took a back seat to his scoring. But for the sake of his competitive
streak, Bryant couldn't help but take issue with Nuggets Coach George Karl.
So after the Lakers' 96-87 Game 7 victory
Saturday over the Denver Nuggets, Kobe Bryant didn't just approach Denver's
coach to rub it in that the purple and gold were advancing. He also questioned
why the Nuggets double-teamed him, leading him to focus less on scoring (17
points on seven-of-16 shooting) and more on facilitating (eight
assists).
"All I said to him is, 'You don't have to
double-team me that much,' " Bryant said. "I'm too old. I can't score the ball
anymore."
Of course, that's hardly the case. The
Nuggets often sent him single coverage early in the season so they could throw
their resources at Andrew Bynum. Bryant's 43 points nearly proved enough to
bring the Lakers back to win Game 5; they lost by three.
That's why Kobe Bryant couldn't help but feel
amused by Karl's reaction."He said he wasn't falling for that," Bryant said with
a smile.
The NBA's international superstars are
usually identified as different-looking people with unpopular haircuts and thick
accents.
Take one look and hear one sentence from
Dirk Nowitzki, Yao Ming and Pau Gasol, and it's clear none of them were born in
the United States of America. Yet there are other, less obvious foreign players
in the league: those who hail from the mystical land of Canada, where a wise
moose acts as spiritual leader and Wayne Gretzky is allowed to make up laws as
he pleases.
Among the NBA's Canadians, Phoenix Suns
point guard Steve Nash stands out as the most famous and best player. Now, after
retiring from the national team and as he nears the end of his NBA career, Nash
will serve as general manager of Canada Basketball, the nation's basketball
organization.
"Canada Basketball has been huge in my
career but it's also been hamstrung on many occasions — daily, yearly — in its
existence because of funding," Nash, who deflected questions about whether he
might sign with the Toronto Raptors this summer, said at Tuesday's press
conference at the Air Canada Centre. "We've never had the funding to do the
things or supply the resources that we wanted to. But now, because of the power
and the human resource and the capital of our Sixth Man Group [a group of
private investors supporting the team], we have the potential to do some amazing
things.
"We want to be playing in the Olympics
perennially and we want to be in the hunt for medals," Nash added
Team Canada has a chance to make some
noise on the world stage, and it's important for Nash to be involved in some way
if they want to maximize their potential. As he said in his remarks, money is an
issue, and there's no better way to raise money than by having a true national
superstar involved.
But Nash will also gain a lot from this
experience himself, and not just in the sense that it's a good PR move to show
some patriotism. Nash has never been shy about exploring opportunities off the
basketball court, whether that involves charitable endeavors or selling suits
for Indochino. Holding an important management position that allows him to work
with Canada Basketball's private investors can only help his career. No matter
what he chooses to do with the rest of his life, Nash will have more options and
connections after this experience.
Floyd Mayweather believes the key to his
hard-fought victory over Miguel Cotto on Saturday night stemmed from the night
he shunned a trip to an Orlando strip club and went for a six-mile run at
3a.m.
Mayweather defeated Cotto by unanimous
decision following an arduous battle that left him with a bloodied nose and
mouth. He was forced to rely on the stamina built up during a grueling training
camp.
That camp was scheduled to begin at the
start of March but instead Mayweather opted to start his preparations a week
earlier in the middle of the night during NBA All-Star weekend.
"He did six miles that night," 50 Cent
said to Y! Sports. "I thought he was crazy. I thought he was joking. I have
never before just seen a person start randomly training like that. We were so
far away from the gym, we weren't even close. Before that, we were going to a
strip club.
"That is what he is all about, working
hard and showing that kind of extreme work ethic no one else has. He showed a
lot of spirit and determination. Everyone understands what it takes to be
successful but he does it better than anyone."
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Kobe Bryant scored 22 points, Andrew
Bynum added 19 and the Los Angeles Lakers' stars got plenty of help from their
supporting cast in a 92-88 win over the Denver Nuggets on Sunday night for a 3-1
lead in their first-round playoff series.The Lakers can wrap it up Tuesday night
when the series shifts back to Staples Center for Game 5.
Reserve Jordan Hill was big for L.A.,
posting a double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds, and Steve Blake scored
10 points, including a key 3-pointer in the final minute as the Lakers overcame
a six-point halftime hole and a 71-70 deficit heading into the fourth
quarter.
"This was fun," Blake said. "It doesn't
get any better than this. Playoff basketball, this is what it's all
about."
With the game tied at 86, Danilo
Gallinari was covering Bryant when a hard screen from Pau Gasol sent him to the
floor grabbing his face. Bryant worked the ball to Sessions, whose 3-pointer
from just in front of the Nuggets bench put the Lakers ahead 89-86 with 48
seconds remaining.
Andre Miller was whistled for basket
interference at the other end, and Blake sank a 3-pointer from the left corner
with 18.9 seconds left for a six-point cushion, L.A.'s biggest of the
night.Gallinari led the Nuggets with 20 points, and Miller had 15.After torching
the Lakers for 50 points combined in the previous two games, Ty Lawson was held
to 11 points and Nuggets big men Kenneth Faried and JaVale McGee weren't nearly
as effective on offense or disruptive defensively as they were in Game 2, when
they combined for 28 points and 30 rebounds.
(Ps: I'm very sorry . Some time ago I was
sick, so I can not update the news in time . I will do better from now on .
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