OUCH!!!

Shaun Livingston took one for "The Cripples" yesterday! He saw Patrick's ACL tear, and raised with a PCL, MCL, and tearing his meniscus! Then he finished off with a drink of patella dislocation! Wonder if he would have gone through these issues if he had gone to Duke after all...

Dallas is scary.........................looking.

Dallas is scary. They held Minnesota to 65 points tonight! The T-Wolves only scored 8 points in the second quarter and only 12 points in the fourth quarter. I know Minnesota is crappy and all but they do still have KG.

This reminded me of the Spurs game we went to where they displayed on the Jumbotron that SA once held Denver to 3 points in the first quarter. This stat seemed impossible, but then I did some research on Wikipedia. Check these ridiculous facts out:

Fewest Points in a NBA Quarter
2 by the Dallas Mavericks at L.A. Lakers on April 6, 1997 (3rd Quarter)
2 by the Golden State Warriors vs. Toronto Raptors on February 8, 2004 (4th Quarter)

Since 1983, eight teams have scored ZERO points in overtime.

Fewest Combined Score in Overtime
2- Denver Nuggets (0) vs. Charlotte Hornets (2) on January 13, 1997

Largest Margin of Victory in a NBA Game
68-Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Miami Heat, December 17, 1991 the final score was Cleveland, 148. Miami, 80. - Holy crap that was a beat down!

Check out all the silly stats here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_records

Simmons grades the Trade Deadline.

HOUSTON: A-minus
Carry-over grade from the superb Shane Battier deal. The Rockets couldn't swing a deadline trade because they didn't have anything to trade; even their plan to land Chucky Atkins by sending old footage of Juwan Howard from the '96 season to Jerry West and pretend it was a 2007 tape didn't work. Too bad. They were one more quality guard away from being legitimately interesting in May and June. And while we're here, nobody is allowed to mention another "Coach of the Year" candidate in 2007. The award goes to Jeff Van Gundy. Done and done. Let's agree not to bring this up again.


SAN ANTONIO: (INC)
If the Spurs honestly believe this particular roster of guys can beat Phoenix or Dallas this spring, they're crazy. On the other hand, I'm not sure what they could have done. They need another big man to help out Tim Duncan defensively (he's slipping noticeably on that end), as well as a big-time perimeter stopper (Manu Ginobili's slipping and Bruce Bowen already slipped) ... but they had no trading chips other than their No. 1 pick, Luis Scola's rights and a couple of smaller expiring contracts. (Note: I spent 25 solid minutes trying to figure out a way they could have landed Joel Przybilla or Gerald Wallace for a reasonable price and couldn't make it work.) So what can you do? They're getting old and there's no real way to stop it.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/070223

Couple of stand out performances today

Check out Amare's line today:

43 pts, 16 reb, 6 ast. Yowza!

Vince Carter:

40 pts, 9 reb, 8 ast. Jeez.

And has anyone noticed how close Jason Kidd is to averaging a triple-double this season? Currently he's at:

14.3 pts, 8.1 reb, 8.9 ast

And Nash is at:

18.8 pts, 3.3 reb, 11.9 ast

Steve's assists are unbelieveable but I almost think Kidd's line is more impressive. Although his high rebounds might be because of his team's inability to rebound. He does lead the Nets in rebounds and he's the point guard.

oh yea...

i forgot about the wheelchair dunk one

hack a shaq

jeffrey sent me a couple of links to 'the onion' with some funny nba pics... thats all i got

On his Denver Nuggets...

Nuggets coach George Karl said. "And some nights I think we're going to do it and other nights I think we're too individualistic in our thoughts, too worried about our shots, our minutes."

exactly, George.