tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36287025177882862522023-11-16T03:02:17.561-08:00Big Fan of NBA - Daily UpdateKulas TVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831747869162888802noreply@blogger.comBlogger1109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628702517788286252.post-909207214169256652013-02-01T20:42:00.001-08:002013-02-01T20:42:34.911-08:00NBA News - Russell Westbrook's Outburst Overshadows Strong Performance In Thunder's Win Over Grizzlies"Peter Pan was back in business Thursday night. You know. Russell Westbrook. The mischievous boy who can fly and who never grows up.<br />
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Westbrook barked at the genteel Thabo Sefolosha, took a shot so wild Scotty Brooks was forced to substitute, blew his stack while being counseled by Mo Cheeks, knocked over a chair and stormed off the court to the comfort of a Chesapeake Arena tunnel.<br />
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At the time, Westbrook was playing an excellent game and the Thunder led Memphis by 20 points.<br />
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The Thunder produced a 106-89 rout of the Grizzlies that was overshadowed by Peter Pan.<br />
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And maybe the basketball world will be better off if we accept what Westbrook is. Part hot hand, part hothead. Uncorrallable, not just by NBA opponents, but by Thunder brass.<br />
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"There's no question he was frustrated with himself," Brooks said. "Russell's an emotional guy … not trying to downplay that. He has to be able to control his frustration. But that's part of it."<br />
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Exactly. Westbrook's wild emotions are part of it. Maybe those wild emotions help make him who he is. Which is a ballplayer so good, he can wipe out the NBA's best of the West the way Peter Pan took care of Captain Hook.<br />
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Serenity now? We're past that as advice for Westbrook. That's advice for his team, which has to deal with the fallout of a soap opera every month or so.<br />
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Some suggested that the Thunder bench seemed tired of Westbrook's act after he cooled off in the tunnel for a minute or so. I don't know. I couldn't see from my vantage point. But in the locker room, the Boomers were back in protection mode.<br />
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Brooks and his boys talked of how basketball is an emotional game, and this is an emotional team, and they wouldn't have it any other way. Except who else turns the tunnel into a decompression chamber? Who marches off the bench during the game, except to nurse an ankle sprain or hit the can?"<br />
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Joakim Noah is out with plantar fasciitis.<br />
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Kirk Hinrich definitely won't play at the brand-new Barclays Center. He returned to Chicago to have his right elbow examined and will be re-examined by team physician Brian Cole.<br />
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Nate Robinson, Richard Hamilton, Luol Deng, Taj Gibson and Nazr Mohammed will start for the Bulls."<br />
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"Man, it's been tough," DeRozan said Friday morning, about 10 hours before the new-look Raptors clobbered the Los Angeles Clippers 98-73 in as good a debut for a changed team as could have been imagined.<br />
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But as tough at is it was for DeRozan, there were moments Friday that will make his transition a lot easier.<br />
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Twice in the first half, DeRozan found Gay for lob passes that ended in dunks, energizing a sellout crowd at the Air Canada that was in a celebratory mood all night.<br />
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And when Gay hit a buzzer-beating three-pointer to put Toronto up an astonishing 72-45 after three quarters, the arena exploded."<br />
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The Pacers announced today that Granger received an injection to treat left patellar tendinosis. The procedure was performed by Dr. James Andrews in Gulf Breeze, Fla.<br />
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The Pacers have struggled offensively without Granger, the team's leading scorer the past five years, in the lineup.<br />
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They are 25th in the league in scoring, 26th in field goal percentage, 28th in assists and 30th in the league in turnovers.<br />
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Coach Frank Vogel changed his starting lineup earlier this week by moving Gerald Green to the bench and starting Sam Young at small forward.<br />
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The Pacers (2-2) play the Atlanta Hawks tonight."<br />
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<a name='more'></a>Davis, the No. 1 overall pick in the June NBA draft, suffered a mild concussion in last Friday's game against the Utah Jazz and missed the only opportunity to play in his hometown of Chicago this past Saturday when the Hornets defeated the Chicago Bulls 89-82 at the United Center.<br />
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"He's got to have testing done,'' Hornets Coach Monty Williams said after Monday's practice. "He was in practice today, but he's still being evaluated.''<br />
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Davis was seen near the end of practice Monday at the Alario Center with his practice gear on, joking with teammates.<br />
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Although Williams spoke out about the NBA's strict concussion policy before Saturday night's game against the Bulls, he is not expected to be fined by the NBA, according to a league source Monday.<br />
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Williams said what's happening in football has impacted everybody. In response to the league's concussion policy, he said everybody is getting treated like they have on white gloves and pink drawers."<br />
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"You obviously hope he's back as soon as possible," Brown said Sunday after the team's shootaround. "But the one thing you don't want to do, you don't want to compromise his long-term health for him coming back quicker than he should. So, (trainer) Gary Vitti and the staff are on top of it. We'll just wait and play it out from there."<br />
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Nash suffered a small fracture to his fibula in a collision with Portland rookie Damian Lillard on Wednesday night. He missed the Lakers' 105-95 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday night, when the Lakers dropped to 0-3 for the first time in 34 years.<br />
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"We got capable guys that can step up and fill his spot and that's what we're going to have to get," Brown said. "Obviously Darius (Morris) is going to get some minutes so it's going to help his growth and (Steve) Blake is going to get a chance to play with the starting group, so we'll be able to see what he's going to be able to bring to the table and we'll just go from there.""<br />
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Since 2002, the Knicks struggled to recapture their former success, only making the playoffs three times, most recently losing to the Miami Heat in the first round of contention under the lead of Amar'e Stoudemire, Carmelo Anthony and Tyson Chandler.<br />
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Kulas TVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831747869162888802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628702517788286252.post-63853553646949686512012-11-05T15:38:00.000-08:002012-11-05T15:38:18.233-08:00LA Lakers 2013 Starters Media Days WallpaperA widescreen wallpaper of the Lakers 2013 starting five, the first one made from real picture of them posing together (not photo manipulations)... picture was made as part of 2012 NBA Team Media Days.<br />
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Since the Lakers were established in 1948, the team has missed the playoffs just five times. The team has 16 NBA titles and has appeared in the NBA Finals 15 other times.<br />
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These appearances include eight NBA Finals appearances in the 80s. The best record posted by the team was 69–13, in 1972; the worst record was 19–53, in 1957–58. The Lakers are one of three teams to have never lost 60 games in a season. The other teams are the New York Knicks and the New Orleans/Utah Jazz.<br />
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After his contract with the Suns expired, Hill was pursued by multiple contenders, including the Los Angeles Lakers, the Miami Heat, the New York Knicks, the Los Angeles Clippers, and the Oklahoma City Thunder. On July 18, 2012, Hill signed a contract with the Clippers.<br />
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<ul><li>June 29, 1994: Drafted 3rd overall by Detroit Pistons in 1994 NBA Draft.</li>
<li>August 3, 2000: Signed and traded by Detroit to the Orlando Magic for Chucky Atkins and Ben Wallace.</li>
<li>July 11, 2007: Signed as a free agent by Phoenix Suns.</li>
<li>July 18, 2012: Signed as a free agent by Los Angeles Clippers.</li>
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Terry won the NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award in 2009<br />
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On May 8, 2011, in a playoff game against the Los Angeles Lakers, Terry tied an NBA playoff record with nine made three-pointers. He joined Rex Chapman, Vince Carter, and Ray Allen in achieving this record. Terry missed only one of the three-point field goals he attempted. He finished the game 10 of 14 with 32 points.<br />
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On July 18, 2012, Terry signed a three-year contract with the Boston Celtics worth an estimated $15 million.<br />
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Wallpaper was made by BasketballWalpaperKulas TVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831747869162888802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628702517788286252.post-55403346537934252182012-11-05T15:19:00.000-08:002012-11-05T15:19:15.876-08:00Brandon Roy Minnesota Timberwolves WallpaperA Widescreen wallpaper of Brandon Roy in Timberwolves jersey nothing spectacular but i think walls look ok.<br />
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On July 31, 2012, Roy signed with the Minnesota Timberwolves.The deal put Roy with All-Star forward Kevin Love and point guard Ricky Rubio. He decided to wear No. 3, the number he wore during his college years at Washington.<br />
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Wallpaper was made by BasketballWalpaperKulas TVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831747869162888802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628702517788286252.post-12733278263734342172012-11-05T06:52:00.002-08:002012-11-05T06:52:42.092-08:00After Three Defeats To Open Season, Star-Studded Lakers Finally Get Into Win Column"For once, the Lakers performed as advertised.<br />
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Dwight Howard dominated in the post. The Lakers actually played defense.<br />
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And Kobe Bryant didn't have to take over, thanks to his supporting cast.<br />
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All of those ingredients ensured the Lakers' first win of the season, a 108-79 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Sunday at Staples Center.<br />
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It's actually the team's first win in 14 games, counting its eight preseason losses and exit from the 2012 Western Conference semifinals. The Lakers (1-3) also avoided joining the 1957-58 Minneapolis team as the only squads in franchise history to start the season 0-4.<br />
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"It was a little frustrating after our first three losses," Howard said. "But we kept our composure."<br />
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The Lakers secured that outcome early against Detroit (0-3), heading into the locker room with a 62-34 halftime lead.<br />
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Howard, who posted a team-leading 28 points on 12-of-14 shooting, seven rebounds and three blocks, eclipsed his output Friday against the Clippers (13 points) by the 8:38 mark of the second quarter.<br />
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Bryant scored 15 points in only 32 minutes, a far cry from the 40-point outburst the Lakers needed from him in 43 minutes in their loss to the Clippers. The Lakers finally made defensive stops, holding the Pistons to a 36.4 percent shooting clip. Steve Blake and Darius Morris absorbed Steve Nash's absence with a mild fracture in his left leg by combining for 12 points and eight assists."<br />
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He lauded his Celtics teammates and the time he spent winning a championship in Boston. He called leaving the best decision for his family and wouldn't throw people under the bus. Now that he's comfortably in Miami, however, Allen is telling the real story. Allen has confirmed he felt unvalued in Boston, saying the blame for him jumping to Miami rests completely with the Celtics. <br />
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"It was a business decision, and the team put me in the position where we had to move," Allen told WMEN in Miami, according to sportsradiointerviews.com. "We had to go. Miami was a better choice for us based on what the team was doing, so it wasn't -- don't boo me. Boo the team, in a sense.<br />
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Williams was the top scorer for the Jazz with 18 points, and by making 3-of-4 3-pointers he improved his 3-point shooting for the preseason to 64.3 percent (9-of-14).<br />
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As for the "injury," he said he "caught the ball funny" and worried that he may have dislocated the pinkie finger on his shooting hand.<br />
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But, not to worry.<br />
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"I'll be fine," Williams said, and the fact that he hurt his pinkie in the second quarter yet played the rest of the game suggests it shouldn't be a problem going forward."<br />
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Kulas TVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13831747869162888802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3628702517788286252.post-58264659927905609432012-10-21T16:23:00.001-07:002012-10-21T16:23:11.812-07:00Green Doesn't Matter To Miami Heat's Ray Allen" It could have been much simpler, these last years of Ray Allen's Hall of Fame career, but simple isn't always easy.<br />
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In nine days, Allen will take the court as a sworn enemy of the Boston Celtics. It will be the NBA's biggest story on opening night. Boil everything else away — all the drama with Rajon Rondo; all the pride that makes us human — and you're left with this: Allen took less money to play a similar role for the team that put the Celtics out of the playoffs in each of the past two seasons.<br />
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That's legacy altering stuff. Rewrite the enshrinement speech and edit the obit.<br />
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There was a time, only a few months ago, when Allen could have had his jersey retired next to those of Bird and Russell and Cousy and all the rest. He helped Boston win its first NBA championship in 22 years. He set the NBA record for three-pointers in shamrock green.<br />
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There is a mystique to that shamrock. It's stitched into the fabric of Boston like a badge of honor and it's unlike anything else in basketball — maybe unlike anything else in American sports. To say otherwise, and to ignore that fact here, would be to ignore the very essence of this story's significance."<br />
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From rim-rocking dunks by Alec Burks and Gordon Hayward to a late brouhaha between roster hopeful Darnell Jackson and Clipper reserve Marqus Blakely, the Jazz's 99-91 win over this Los Angeles team offered some exciting moments.<br />
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But the most important thing that happened during Utah's fourth preseason win in five games could've been the extended sneak peek of the Jazz's first unit.<br />
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The starters spent more time on the court together in this one than in any previous exhibition contest, and the general consensus was that they're continuing to mesh into a solid group.<br />
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Sure, there's plenty of room for improvement — especially, Jazz coach Tyrone Corbin noted, on the defensive end in pick-and-roll situations"<br />
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So where were the Indiana Pacers going to get their scoring from in the fourth quarter of a close game against the visiting Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday?<br />
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Enter Gerald Green.<br />
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Green, who has started every preseason game he's played in, stepped up and carried the Pacers down the stretch.<br />
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He scored 11 of his game-high 18 points in the fourth quarter of the Pacers' 83-80 victory.<br />
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"I just try to let the game come to me," Green said. "In the first half, I missed an open 3, but it felt good. I feel like every shot I took felt good and was in the rhythm of the offense."<br />
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Green, like many of the Pacers, was upset with himself for his performance in Friday's loss to the Orlando Magic.<br />
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He was 6-of-10 from the field against the Magic, but he saw that he took several questionable shots when he watched the film.<br />
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Green wants to leave the days of jacking up bad shots in the past.<br />
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"That's one thing I learned being overseas, learn how to get your shots through the offense," he said."<br />
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"We don't flop over here," Chicago Bulls forward Carlos Boozer said. "We play D. If we take charges, it's a real charge. There are some teams that live and die by the flop. I like the rule. It puts pressure on guys to play better defense."<br />
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Not surprisingly, rebellious Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is resisting the league's new action, claiming the anti-flopping rule is "very subjective" and difficult to legislate.<br />
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"They're going to have to stick to the most obvious (flops)," Cuban said. "Like he missed you and you fell over. Those type of things."<br />
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Given what has transpired so far this preseason, the NBA apparently means business.<br />
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Golden State guard Jarrett Jack said the league warned him about flopping in a preseason game. "So I've been warned for flopping hahaha," Jack tweeted."<br />
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Dirk Nowitzki has been grounded after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his right knee Friday morning. The 7-foot forward is expected to be sidelined for six weeks.<br />
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It is a devastating blow for the Mavs, who were already trying to incorporate eight new players.<br />
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"It's never going to be easy to lose a game-changer for six weeks," coach Rick Carlisle said. "We know that, but we're going to have to make up for it in other areas. We're going to have to play with grit and guts, and we're going to have to raise our level of efficiency in all areas. We're going to be smallish a lot and we're going to have to make that work for us."<br />
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The regular season starts Oct. 30 when the Mavs travel to Los Angeles to play a nationally televised game against the Los Angeles Lakers.<br />
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"Six weeks, that's a lot of games," center Brandan Wright said. "We've got guys that need to step up and keep improving. We've got to play hard, we've got to lift our level, we've got to get some guys stepping up, we've got to focus more and we just got to stay healthy.""<br />
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No, they are about the parts.<br />
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Saturday, many of the parts were moving quite nicely.<br />
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Dwyane Wade showed early that Erik Spoelstra can afford to give James the occasional night off this season, with 11 first-quarter points before stepping aside in a 13-point, 26-minute performance.<br />
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Rashard Lewis stepped forward with his best performance with the Heat, scoring both at the rim and from distance in a 15-point effort in 20 minutes off the bench, adding three rebounds and four steals.<br />
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And Mike Miller? Well, his parts stayed in place long enough to convert all four of his second-quarter 3-point attempts, reducing concern about Ray Allen's 3-point stroke yet to follow the veteran guard from Boston. Miller finished 4 of 5 on 3-pointers for 12 points, on an afternoon Allen was 2 of 8 from the field.<br />
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"That's the thing about this team that's exciting," Wade said. "It's good to know you can go to different lineups and you can have different people you can count on.""<br />
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Yep, he's feeling better.<br />
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Howard will probably make his Lakers debut Sunday in an exhibition game against the Sacramento Kings at Staples Center.<br />
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He wouldn't confirm it, and neither would the Lakers, just in case Howard woke up with an unexpected ache in his back and had to postpone for another few days.<br />
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Barring anything like that, the six-time All-Star will take his spot at center for the 16-time NBA champions.<br />
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"It'll be the first time I've played basketball in a long time so I'll probably be a little emotional," he said Saturday. "I hope it doesn't happen that way, where I get out there and start crying."<br />
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The Lakers could use Howard, tears and everything. They're the only team without an exhibition victory. Their 0-5 mark is their worst start ever.<br />
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The starters have played sparingly, sure, but only Bryant looks to be in midseason form, averaging 20.3 points, 4.3 rebounds and 3.5 points in 25.3 minutes.<br />
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"Can we play better? Yeah," Lakers Coach Mike Brown said. "Is there some concern? Not yet. After the preseason, talk to me if we had a chance to play all our guys.""<br />
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“Growing up in Spain I always loved the adidas brand and their products,” said Rubio. “The last few years they’ve really changed the game with new technology and style in basketball shoes and apparel and I can’t wait to be a part of it.”<br />
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The No. 5 overall pick in the 2009 NBA Draft, this past season Rubio averaged over 10 points, 8 assists and 2 steals in 42 games and finished second in NBA Rookie of the Year voting in an injury shortened season. Prior to signing with Minnesota, Rubio helped the Spanish national team win the Silver Medal at the 2008 Olympics and became the youngest player ever in an Olympic basketball final. In an impressive European professional career that began at age 14, Rubio led FC Barcelona Basquet to the 2010 Euroleague title and was three times named the FIBA Europe Young Player of the Year.<br />
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“Ricky Rubio is a once-in-a-generation player,” said Lawrence Norman, adidas vice president of global basketball. “His work ethic and selflessness combined with his superior athleticism and playmaking have quickly made him one of the most exciting young players in the game. When you watch Ricky on the court and talk to him after practice, you understand his pure enjoyment of playing basketball and that makes him a perfect fit for our brand.”<br />
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Rubio is the latest addition to the adidas basketball roster which includes 2010 NBA MVP Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls, three-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year Dwight Howard of the Los Angeles Lakers and two-time NBA MVP and four-time NBA Champion Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs. He joins several adidas players on the 2012 NBA All-Rookie teams including Kenneth Faried of the Denver Nuggets, Iman Shumpert of the New York Knicks, Brandon Knight of the Detroit Pistons and MarShon Brooks of the New Jersey Nets.<br />
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Other adidas athletes include WNBA star Candace Parker, FIFA World Player of the Year Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona, NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year Von Miller of the Denver Broncos and Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III of the Washington Redskins.<br />
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Rubio will be featured in a variety of upcoming adidas marketing initiatives and will play a role in the development of basketball footwear and apparel.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>The game was surprisingly competitive with several players such as Rodney Carney, Terrel Harris and Jarvis Varnado fighting for what could potentially be an open roster spot or two (or none). Udonis Haslem could have cared less that it was an exhibition game and was openly arguing with the refs during a timeout, scrambling for a loose ball with Josh Harrellson, and pleading for an offensive foul to be called on LeBron James for pushing off Garrett Temple on a pull-up jumper. Chris Bosh led the team with 19 points, 7-10 FG, 2-3 on 3-point FGs, 3-4 FTs. LeBron contributed 15 points, 4-8 from the field, 1-1 3-point FG, 6-11 FTs."<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFYN3E42pQrtWa3iqMwkbM_bdfAjHUd_ucVFMrLshQjYglLY723cPRvUSKXDQlRUurCIsC7E5pbDU4t9XN6ZSpqPdgV2EBI_k7ugvpUQ4HoPN-KF8fYCP26N9yrNo1WEk5Qao2CmnPPck/s1600/2012-NBA-All-Star-Dwight-Howard-Wallpaper-BasketWallpapers.com-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFYN3E42pQrtWa3iqMwkbM_bdfAjHUd_ucVFMrLshQjYglLY723cPRvUSKXDQlRUurCIsC7E5pbDU4t9XN6ZSpqPdgV2EBI_k7ugvpUQ4HoPN-KF8fYCP26N9yrNo1WEk5Qao2CmnPPck/s320/2012-NBA-All-Star-Dwight-Howard-Wallpaper-BasketWallpapers.com-.jpg" width="320" /></a><a name='more'></a>"I don't care what Shaq says," Howard told reporters after practice Wednesday, according to The Los Angeles Times."Shaq played the game and he is done. It's time to move on. He hated the fact when he played that older guys were talking about him and how he played. Now he's doing the exact same thing. Just let it go. There's no sense for him to be talking trash to me. He did his thing in the league. Sit back and relax. Your time is up."<br />
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Howard is meshing well with his new team after a rather tumultuous offseason full of trade rumors before he finally was shipped from Orlando to Los Angeles.<br />
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But he's not on good terms with one of the franchise's former stars, as O'Neal last week placed him below Bynum and Lopez in his pseudo power rankings of centers.<br />
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"I'm not talking about dunking, I'm talking about playing like a big man with moves," O'Neal, who is now an analyst on TNT, told NBA.com. "My man [Lopez], before he had the foot injury, was putting up nice, solid big-man numbers. He don't have a lot of flash, a la Tim Duncan, but he can play. If you put him with a nice team around him, you can get a lot from this big man. Like if you want to go to flash and dunking and the pick and roll, you gotta go with Dwight Howard. But me, the last true original dun duda, I'm going with Andrew Bynum and [Lopez].""<br />
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But now, he has.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>On NBA TV's Open Court, whose first episode debuts on NBA TV Tuesday (11 p.m. ET), Barkley goes on to say that both Jordan and LeBron James do "everything well."
But, he says, there's one key difference: "LeBron James is just bigger, stronger, faster. That's the only difference."<br />
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Although it does seem like a pretty big difference.
The series features roundtable discussions involving TNT and NBA TV analysts such as Reggie Miller and Shaquille O'Neal. On Tuesday's taped show, Miller says because James has played on an NBA championship -- in Miami last season -- he has "that monkey off his back" and "his best basketball is yet to come."<br />
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But, says O'Neal, James now faces new pressure: "Unfortunately for LeBron, now that the monkey is off his back, he is going to be compared to two people -- Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan.""<br />
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