Rasheed Wallace came to play today against an all-star forward Chris Bosh and the Raptors. The Raptors are making news now behind Bosh. He is a true all-star in-spite of some people thinking he made it purely based on the Canadian fan votes. It's one of my philosophies in life that quite often 2 things that sound contradictory can both be equally true on careful analysis. This is one of those situations. Bosh is a deserving all-star and he probably did get a lot of Canadian votes being the star of the only Canadian NBA team. In any case, Sheed outplayed him today with a 28-7 night. Bosh had a bad night and just shot 5-15 for 14 points. Detroit is doing real well right now with Webber in the middle. That dude can really pass the ball!
Orlando lost to NJ after a big win yesterday. The Magic have actually been struggling since a great Nov. Not sure what's happening there. They should be good enough right now to be a major player in the L-Eastern conference. As for the Nets, looks like they can beat anybody when the good Vinsanoty shows up and lose to anybody when the bad Vinsanity is in the house. Today it was the good with 32 points. Talking about being good, Mehmet Okur is right now balling out of his mind. Today he scored 29 points to lead the Jazz over the Knicks. He is carrying them without Boozer. The Jazz have a lot of talent with AK-47, Deron Williams, Boozer and Okur with D-Fish and Harping to back them up. They are going to be real good if Deron keeps getting better and better. Apparently he trained with John Stockton this off-season!
There are couple of other things happening in the NBA. John Amaechi, a journeyman center is coming out of the closet. Apparently he grew up in UK and is currently writing a book where he says he is gay. My response is "whatever". He may be the first NBA guy to come out, but it's just not that interesting to me. I just don't have any problems with Gays or anybody for that matter. The other news is D-Wade V Cuban. Apparently Wade questioned Nowitzki's leadership and Cuban jumped to defend his boy. I am surprised Wade spoke like that. May be his head is getting too big finally. But Cubes line about the buffet-line is classic. It's all reproduced below.
Wade - At the end of the day, you're remembered for what you did at the end. . . . I think that's the reason - Dirk says they gave us the championship last year, but he's the reason they lost the championship, because he wasn't the leader that he's supposed to be in the closing moments. That's because of great defense by us, but also he wasn't assertive enough as a leader's supposed to be.
Cuban - Say what ? Is this the DWade of some of the lamest, boring commercials known to man ? Commercials that are singlehandedly responsible for selling more commercial skipping TIVOs than anything else on TV ? I guess you have earned the right to criticize Dirk with an obvious display of your own leadership skills. I know Shaq appreciates your leadership as well. He called out your team a few weeks ago saying it was "embarrassing". Great leadership DWade. Your coach sat players for being fat. I guess you couldn't lead them away from the buffet. You are an amazing player Dwayne. I love watching you shoot free throws. What you know about Dirk's leadership skills is non existent. You don't have a clue. Your ability to evaluate leadership skills .... well you obviously have an overinflated value of your own. Did you take business classes at Marquette ? Now we know why Charles won't put you in his 5.
Orlando @ New Jersey - 78-93
Interesting games on the board for Feb 11-th (Sunday)
Expanded Sunday schedule since NFL is over!
San Antonio @ Miami - ABC game. D-Wade and Shaq get to strut their stuff on national TV against the Spurs.
LA Lakers @ Cleveland - Kobe-V-LeBron. Must see TV.
Chicago @ Phoenix - The Suns welcome back Nash against a decent opponent.
LA Clippers @ Indiana - Which is the better mediocre team that can make the playoffs in it's conference?
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