Defense of the Lakers showed up, specially in the last 3 minutes.How about this. For bragging rights in LaLa Land the Lakers at home to the Clippers in a back and forth game final
Lakers 106-103 as Lakers snap a 4 game losing streak.
this was a must game for the Lakers
I was there tonight. Haliburton's injury sucked all of the air out of the room for the following five minutes, but then the Pacers decided to get fierce instead of limp away and thy exploded for 44 points in Q3. This group of young players doesn't know that they're supposed to crack when their leader goes down! The home crowd is also beginning to fall in love with Jalen Smith. He's not polished, but he gives everything he's got, sort of like a young, tall T.J. McConnell.Exciting game between Jack's Pacers and my C's. Close close game till the end. There was a foul on Brown that was overturned by the replay center which said that the hand of a Pacer hit the ball first and then in a split second his arm hit the head of Brown. Live call was a foul on the Pacer but it was overturned. So Brown didn't get 2 free throws and the next play the Unicorn was charged with a foul on the 3 ball attempt of ta Pacer whose hand visibly extended to hit the Unicorn's hand to elicit a whistle. Part of the game, these refs. Jack gets the win, so it's all good over here. Btw, hope the injury to Haliburton is not serious and he took a bad fall.
I'm quite impressed with Mathurin, he will shine in the coming years.I was there tonight. Haliburton's injury sucked all of the air out of the room for the following five minutes, but then the Pacers decided to get fierce instead of limp away and thy exploded for 44 points in Q3. This group of young players doesn't know that they're supposed to crack when their leader goes down! The home crowd is also beginning to fall in love with Jalen Smith. He's not polished, but he gives everything he's got, sort of like a young, tall T.J. McConnell.
It just seems the Pacers match up well with the Celtics Nothing is a given on any night in the NBA. Parity has almost leveled the fieldI was there tonight. Haliburton's injury sucked all of the air out of the room for the following five minutes, but then the Pacers decided to get fierce instead of limp away and thy exploded for 44 points in Q3. This group of young players doesn't know that they're supposed to crack when their leader goes down! The home crowd is also beginning to fall in love with Jalen Smith. He's not polished, but he gives everything he's got, sort of like a young, tall T.J. McConnell.
Plus Carlisle is a good coach.It just seems the Pacers match up well with the Celtics Nothing is a given on any night in the NBA. Parity has almost leveled the field
how sad is that. I guess we can call this "hubris"Ja out for the season after sustaining a shoulder injury requiring surgery at practice
You hit it right on. I still call the trophy the Larry O'Brien and as you had great respect for David Stern. Silver has a wimp type attitude and has taken the league "woke" to advance funds coming in to the league. Silver was mentored by Stern to take over for him . To me Silver lacks the class of David Stern or the strong foot of O'Brien.This the kind of news that I never heard coming from a sports commissioner in ANY major sports like football and baseball.
Draymond Green says NBA commish talked him out of retirement
"I told him, 'Adam this is too much for me. ... This is too much. It's all becoming too much for me -- and I'm going to retire,'" Green said. "And Adam said, 'You're making a very rash decision and I won't let you do that.'
I could have imagined that coming from Mark Cuban to Dirk Nowitzki but not by a sitting NBA commissioner to a player of one of the 30 teams which hired him to run the league. I grew up watching Larry O'Brien and David Stern steering the league, with respect, but Silver is clearly steering towards players who he feels makes the league 'click' - through media mileage and fanfare (aka selling tickets and merchandise to fund maybe for another 5 or 7 game tournament). And I didn't know Adam is now the common way to address the NBA commissioner. Whatever happened to Mr. Silver or Mr. Commissioner ? Apparently Silver doesn't mind being buddy buddies with 'news-making' players.