King James had another great game tonight as he helped the Cavs beat the Pistons on the road. He had 41-7-8 and tied the game on a dunk to send it to OT. He hit a long 3 at the buzzer to win it, but it was just a bit after the buzzer. So they had to do OT where he had an amazing block on Rip Hamilton. The game-tying dunk showed you what's different with Pistons this year. I don't think James would have had such easy forays to the basket if Big Ben was standing here. C-Webb is awesome on the other end of the floor but he is no Big-Ben on defense and it showed today.
Shaq had 24-9-8 and showed us how good a passer he can be. Eddie Jones had 23 as the Heat crushed the Bulls. In Phoenix, Amare was ejected in the third quarter with his second T and the Suns were taken to OT by the lowly Bobcats! But they hung on to win as the Brazilian Blur scored 32 points and Nash had 24-6-11. The Suns shot 19-38 from 3-point land. 38 threes! Thats something. They have been playing some uninspired ball lately and they need to fix it soon if they want to win against the big dawgs. Denver went into Oakland without Melo and lost to the Warriors 96-110. Melo stayed back to see the birth of his baby. So AI was on his own and was on fire the first half. The Warriors slowed him down in the second half and took control of the game. The Warriors have everybody healthy now and have won 2 straight. Baron Davis had a 22-5-9 night to offset AI's 35-6-3. Denver is not a good team right now without Melo. May be not even with him, but definitely not without him.
The other big news of the day was Kobe's suspension for flailing and throwing his arm backward at Marko Jaric's face. Poor fans of Milwaukee didn't get a chance to see Kobe. Instead they got a Lakers starting lineup of Smush Parker, Sasha Vujacic, Mo Evans, Brian Cook and Andrew Bynum. Thats a total of 39 points per game! The Bucks beat them easily. The national media and the fans seem to be pretty critical of Kobe. He didn't get too much love on this one. Even people who said he didn't deserve the suspension when he hit Ginobli on an identical play, didn't defend Kobe this time.
Cleveland @ Detroit - 101-97
Chicago @ Miami - 70-103
Interesting games on the board for Mar 8-th (Thursday)
San Antonio @ Sacramento - No Ron-Ron for the Kings.
Chicago @ Orlando - The Bulls need to get back on track after the spanking at Miami.
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