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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Injury Bug Cooling Miami Heat
Filed under: Heat
MIAMI -- Maybe it was Dan Gilbert's angry letter putting a hex on the Miami Heat and LeBron after the Decision. Maybe it was LeBron James' fateful tweet about karma directed at Gilbert weeks ago. Or, maybe it's just the fact that the Heat are simply going through a rough patch where an assortment of players, including their top three stars, have suffered a rash of minor and not-so-minor setbacks over the course of a long NBA season.Even LeBron, one of the more durable players in the league who only missed 16 games due to injury in his entire career prior to joining Miami, hasn't been able to dodge the bad luck that began in the preseason with Dwyane Wade injured minutes into their first game together and continuing throughout the regular season with the losses of Mike Miller and Udonis Haslem.
"The injury bug has struck our team," LeBron officially announced after their comeback win over the Detroit Pistons on Friday night. "I think everyone is playing with some injuries. You hate for it to happen. Everyone is trying to figure it out but at the same time, health is number one. We have to be healthy."
That meant Wade being a last-minute scratch from the game after putting on a shooting clinic in New York the night before. The results of a precautionary MRI on his wrist came back negative the next day but his status for Sunday's game on the road against the Oklahoma City Thunder remains very much in the air, as is the status of Chris Bosh, though he surprisingly traveled with the team. Heat coach Erik Spoelstra didn't have much time to worry about his inactive players against the Pistons because his guys out on the floor were busy collecting injuries of their own.
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The Pinkie Previews: Kentucky (16-4, 4-2) at Mississippi (13-8, 1-5)
The first thing you will notice about the Rebs is they still have Chris Warren (5-10, 168) at point guard. Warren, who is now finally a senior, is one of those guys that seems like he has played forever because he has been producing since his freshman year. He averaged 15.8 points his rookie season, followed that with 19.6 the next year, 17.2 the next and is averaging 18.2 points during his senior campaign.
Last time out in their 74-58 loss vs. Tennessee, he led Ole Miss with 16 points and moved into a tie for fifth in Southeastern Conference history with his 296th career 3-pointer. He is shooting 35-percent from deep on the year.
He is also exceptional at the line. Against the Vols on Saturday, his streak of consecutive free throws was halted at 36, finishing one shy of Dave Rhodes? school record. Warren entered the game as the ...
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NBA All-Star Game: All-Decade All-Stars, Eastern Conference Edition
With the 2011 NBA All-Star Weekend just three weeks away, there are some familiar faces on the rosters as well as relative newcomers Derrick Rose and Kevin Durant.
So far, we know the starters for the East and West, but the reserves and East coach have yet to be named.
2011 marks the beginning of a new decade, but I thought it would be interesting to look back at the last decade and fill-out a 10-man roster of All-Stars based on performance from 2000-2010.
This particular list consists of five starters and five reserves from the NBA's Eastern Conference.
Please note that if a player has played in both conferences, he will be chosen for the conference with which he appeared in more All-Star games.
For example, Shaquille O'Neal was selected eight times as an All-Star from 2001-2010—three times as a member of the East and five times as a member of the West. Therefore, there could be more deserving centers based on their Eastern Conference resumes.
*This list encompasses the 2000-2001 NBA season through the 2009-2010 NBA season.