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The NBA Closer is written by our Canadian weekend maestro J.E. Skeets. When he's not busy scouring the box scores or mastering "Vasoline" in Rock Band, he can be heard on The Basketball Jones daily podcast.
• Stay Away From Me, Heavy Machinery! Warning: I'm running on less than four hours of sleep thanks to this overtime thriller, so if I cut my arm off with a table saw, or get my hair caught in the lathe again, well, you can blame Baron Davis or Stephen Jackson. Davis had 34 points and 14 assists — creating offense on nearly every damn possession in the final 10 minutes — as the Warriors held off the Spurs 130-121. Jackson, who rallied from a terrible start to finish with 29 points, hit two free throws and two big 3-pointers in a 56-second span of overtime. Clutch. The loss was San Antonio's second at Golden State in four weeks.
• Clumsy Waiters. General manager Steve Kerr had a little "talk" with his Suns before Monday's shootaround, telling them to go out and hit a shitload of threes. He's such a great motivator. Shawn Marion scored a season-high 27 points, had six blocked shots, and hit five of Phoenix's 20 3-pointers to lead the Suns to a 137-115 romp over the Nuggets. Reserve guard Marcus Banks made a career-high seven 3s — in eight attempts — en route to a season-best 23 points. The Suns' 20 made 3-pointers matched a franchise record and were just one Piatkowski garbage-time-bomb shy of the NBA record set by the Raptors in '05. (Pop that champagne, Donyell Marshall!)
• The Big Broken. Shaquille O'Neal flew yesterday to Los Angeles to seek medical treatment for a hip injury that has sidelined him the past five games. O'Neal bruised his left hip Dec. 22 when he fell for a loose ball and slid into the scorer's table. He aggravated the injury a few days later in a wild foursome.
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Since when does Martin Lawrence play for the Warriors?
For Shaq, there's no such thing as a wild foursome.
Remember, he's 7'11 and weighs about 523 pounds right now.
So Indiana, how is that trade looking now where you gave up SJax?
@Proverbial: Chamillionaire is on the left.
Be sure to stay away from machetes, too, Skeets.
Who is this Martin Lawrence everyone keeps referring to?
I bet Kerr mentioned trade and memphis to the team
@Proverbial: Since he did a guest spot on Hangin with Mr Cooper
It's a fact: if you strap Stephen Jackson to Baron Davis, you get Vince Carter.
/kith
Love those throwbacks. They're so rec-league.
Kerr just needs to play Alan Parson's Project on loop at all the Suns' practices. That should be all the motivation any team needs.
@Stay Away From Oprah:
In Canada, the bigger threat is vats of boiling water.
Did SJax and BDav wear the short-shorts too?
General manager Steve Kerr had a little "talk" with his Suns before Monday's shootaround, telling them to go out and hit a shitload of threes.
Really? I thought Kerr of all people would tell them to pound the paint.
Was at the Warriors game last night, place was pumped the fuck up. The two loudest moments were 1) the M-V-P chant during Baron's free throws in the 4th, and 2) the crowd booing Duncan as he shot his free throws in the 4th after the horrible foul call on Pietrus.
The highlight of the evening for me was probably when the two young ladies two rows in front of me came back to their seats near the end of the 3rd with beer cups, confirming one of two things A) they were of legal age, or B) they had fake IDs which I'm pretty sure would be a sound defense that held up in court. Unfortunately Dad proved to be a horrible wingman.
@LesMilesIsAMouthyDouche: You think you're Dad's a bad wingman, my wife is even worse.
@Clare: Those unis are AWESOME
Spurs/Warriors was an incredible game last night. I made a very insightful observation as well: Gravity affects Manu Ginobili exactly 1.75 times as much as all other human beings. There is no other way to explain why he is always on the fucking floor.
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