Kyrie Irving scored a career-high 55 points as Lebron James sat on the bench and the Cavaliers picked up their 8th straight win a 99-94 win over the Portland TrailBlazers Irving scored 38 on Tuesday .”He’s so quick you don’t want to get too close,”Nicolas Batum said. “You have to control the drive. I tried to contest the shot. I was on him, but he made a big shot.” Lebron sprained his wright on Tuesday night and is doubtful to play in the next few.
Category: NBA
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BULLS END WARRIORS HOME STREAK
30-1 at home? Seems crazy but with the 21-1 home record the Warriors owned it was more than possible, it was probable. The hottest team in the NBA was shot down on Tuesday night by the Chicago Bulls in a 113-111 OT win. Derrick Rose a former MVP sunk the game winner for Chicago, Klay Thompson’s last second shot didn’t fall “We feel comfortable with Derrick taking responsibility in those moments,” Pau Gasol said. “He definitely doesn’t hide and he’s very aggressive.”
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THUNDER EDGE WIZZARDS IN OT
KD2DC? After a 34 point outing in 105-103 overtime win over the Wizards, Washington fans must be hoping even more that Kevin Durant will come back to his home town. “I tried not to let that overshadow it, being home in front of my friends and family,” Durant said. “You only get this opportunity once (a year). I was just happy I got to play in front of them, and seeing my brother courtside and all my family, it was cool to get a win in front of them. … Everybody was here, so I tried to focus on them and not worry about all that other stuff.”
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CAVS ROLL OVER BULLS
It’s taken a while but the Cavaliers are starting to come together. “I like the way we’ve been the last few games,” LeBron James said after the Cavs defeated the Chicago Bulls convincingly, 108-94 win . “I like the way we’ve played the last week. We’ve played some really, really good basketball.” James scored 26 and JR Smith added 20 more. “We’ve got to decide when enough is enough,” Thibodeau, coach of the Bulls said. “We’ve got to get better. It’s really that simple. The way we’re playing is not acceptable, so we have to change it.”
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IRVING NETS 37 IN WIN
Kyrie Irving scored 37 points and Lebron James added 32 more and Tristan had a season-high 24 points and 12 rebounds filling in for Kevin Love as the Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the Los Angeles Clippers. The Cavs shot 10-of-23 from three for the game. “It’s been a while since we shot it well from 3,” Cavs coach David Blatt said. “That gave us some breathing room and took a little bit of pressure off a lot of the other things that we have to do to score.”
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CAVS SNAP LOSING STREAK IN LEBRON-KOBE BATTLE, KOBE SETS CAREER ASSIST MARK
Both men were the best players in the league at one point. The past met the present. Kobe vs Lebron. Both men put on great performances, King James with 36 points and the Black Mamba with a double-double including a CAREER-HIGH 17 assists.But in the end the team with the better supporting cast won out, proving that depth is still relevant in todays “all about me” style of play. The Cavs won 109-102. “It’s always fun, a pleasure,” James said. “It’s two of the best competitors this game has probably ever seen, and to be on the same floor with him, somebody I looked up to when I was a child growing up, seeing him go straight from high school to the NBA, it’s fun, it’s great. I hated him being out of the NBA last year because of injury, and it’s fun having him back.”
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CLIPPERS EDGE BLAZERS
Jamal Crawford scored 25 points including the go ahead 3-pointer with 4 minutes to play as the Los Angeles Clippers defeated the Portland Trailblazers 100-94. LaMarcus Aldridge scored 37 points in the losing effort. “It’s one of those rare regular-season, playoff-type of games,” Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers said. “They’re a lot of fun to get into, but you don’t get a lot of those. We didn’t go into it that way, but it turned into that.”
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SUNS SPOIL LEBRON RETURN
Lebron James returned from injury to score 33 points against the Phoenix Suns, but it wasn’t enough as Cleveland fell to the Suns 107-100 the teams sixth straight loss. Lebron looked great, hitting dunks, threes, and drives, proving why he is still the best player in the NBA, the rest of the team shot 39% from the floor and it looked like Lebron was doing it all on his own at times. “I couldn’t make those moves two weeks ago,” he said. “For me to come back and feel like myself again is pretty cool.”
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3 TEAM TRADE ROCKS NBA LANDSCAPE
To Cavaliers To Thunder To Knicks From Cavaliers N/A Dion Waiters Alex Kirk, Lou Amundson, $5.9M, 2019 2nd round pick From Thunder First Round Pick* N/A Lance Thomas, $2.6M From Knicks JR Smith, Iman Shumpert N/A N/A * It is protected from 1-18 in 2015 and 1-15 in 2016 an 2017, If it stays protected all three years it will become two second runders
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JOSH SMITH DEBUTS IN OT WIN
Just 4 days after being shockingly released from the Detroit Pistons Smith debuted with his new team, the Houston Rockets. The veteran scored 21 points and pulled down 8 rebounds in first game with team, a 117-111 overtime win over the Memphis Grizzles. James Harden led the team with 32 points. “When you’re a professional, and you’ve played a lot of years, it’s not that hard,” Smith said of joining a new team, “especially since you know a lot of the guys in the locker room. They helped me out when I was kind of lost our there.”