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Nail biter..... close this out please....

And 1......

Oh my.. hope not broken but that looks painful.

Ariza and Wall need to beast it..

All Noah does is throw his elbow screens....

No way Chi gets to 80 points. 70 may be a stretch with the d we are playing. Outstanding intensity in q3 and the Bulls are panicking.

Laughing so hard at Chi running their offense through Boozer. Gibson has been on the ench this whole q. Thibbs is crazy.

... and Gibson gets stuck on the bench for 6 mins?

I hate Noah so much... he should foul out quicker than Jan Vesely. Audio on CSN is much better...

Wait. I am on travel to SoVa and my hotel has CSN. *Turns on Buck and Phil* I grew up listening to these guys (although recall Buck replaced someone older who went to SD, no). Mel Proctor or something?

Can I throw this name out there.... DOC RIVERS. Just thinking out loud.

So I was looking at NBA suspensions. One one hand you have the JR Smith suspension last year for "throwing an elbow" at Celtics player (The Jet... guy who was on Dallas for a long time). There's also Matt Barnes regluar season suspension for pushing the neck of Sitesma (sp?) in 2013. On the other hand McRoberts who blatently put an elbow in Lebron's neck did not get suspended. I think he might get suspended but if so, why wasn't McRoberts?

Wow! Wife and I just randomly turned on Portland-Houston with ~ 2 minutes left in 4Q. I was watching Bulls-Wizards and the kids just finished watching "Frozen"... needless to say we were glued to the TV (I HAD NO IDEA SHE ENJOYED BASKETBALL!). Ironic is that I thought Portland was getting jobbed by the fouls pretty much most of the 4Q and OT and then Howard fouls out on kind've a ridiculous call.... so it evens out but everyone will probably point to the Howard 6th foul. That was an amazing game. Excited about the way the Wizards played today... but their problem throughout the season was bringing that intensity every day during the regular season. I hope their playoff attitude is different....

I know there's lots of angst over these Wizards; sure, the coach, sure the talent, sure they slept-walked through a first half like they were one of the late-ago Lakers teams with the full confidence that they had the talent to close the gap and come back in the 2nd half. I grew up with teams full of Harvey Grant's, Pervis Ellison, Rex Chapman, Doug Overton, Don Maclean, and Tom Gugliotta's of the world. The 1992 team won 22 games in total; the 1993 team won 24 games total; the 1994 team won 21 games total; my excitement as a young NoVa kid watching HTS many weekends was whether or not Georghe Muresan would get in the game and whether or not Jim Mcilvane was going to lead the league in blocks... I took out my frustration with NBA Live on the Genesis leading these teams to 82-0 seasons and marching through the playoffs to be NBA World Champions! There was a minor blip and then back to 29 wins (1999); 18 wins (2000); until the Arenas let's go to the playoffs and lose to Lebron times. As far as Wizard teams in my recollection the current collection is one that has a lot going for it and I enjoy that. I'd like to believe I'm looking at a core that will keep growing and (new coach or not) soar to places the Wiz haven't been since I recall. And if not; I can just fire up NBA2K and live in that fantasy video game world where I can make Jan Vesely average 30 a night and shoot 80% free-throw...

Summer League! This is the prime time to be a Bullets fan! Have not had the first 20 games of the season to destroy any optimism we had.

They are trying to use Lin and Omer Asic (sp?) to sign-trade Josh Smith?

I know, I just heard that ~ 1 hour ago (taking kids to In-N-Out).... heard he was flying to LA right now... .

LA sports talk in total meltdown. "What, the man didn't want to play for the most prestegious franchise in the NBA?!" Really... did you not see what was going on in LA? Stephen A came on and pretty much explained it to them: 1) Dwight Howard wasn't happy in LA from the beginning. 2) Dwight Howard wanted Phil Jackson to be the coach. 3) Mike D'Antoni is who he is and runs his team that way. 4) Pau Gasol was benched 2 games in... Dwight Howard can read the writing on the wall... its not a big man offense. 5) Mike D'Antoni wasn't fired during the offseason for Phil Jackson. SAS pretty much said this wasn't going to work from the beginning, the Lakers didn't change the situation to make Howard any happy and he advocated trading Dwight at the trade deadeline (since it was clear Howard was going to leave). Lakers are going to tank next year...

I would've preferred to see the Wizards draft Noel; but Porter isn't bad for #3....

For the first time I'm kind've excited about the Wizards draft. Wizards do nothing and end up with Noel, Porter, or Bennett. I suppose EGEG could screw up by trading #3 for something in the 7-10 range if there was a great deal.... but why bother?

I was just listening to the radio and pre-game shows.... they were saying that the Wizards are one of the worst teams in the NBA and the Friday loss to the Laker's may be one of the worst in the past 3-4 years. Instead of helping to solidify the playoff position, the loss has the Lakers basically clinging to the 8th seed. Kobe is taking major heat. No credit to the Wizards.... these ridiculous radio personalities.

So bad this game got mention on CBS Sports Radio (Brian James and Chris Moore?). "At least Nene is 1-1" was the quote.... lol...

It's more amusing that the media is covering Lakers non-stop and ignoring how the Clippers are on a tear. I can't remember if it was last year, the one where they (my speculation is Kobe) were whispering how it was Pau's fault. Dwight Howard is killing his reputation being on the Lakers (although there is speculation his back isn't right). I wonder how things would have gone if they brought in Phil Jackson. Although Mike Brown did get fired cause of the "Princeton Offense" (not sure if E. Jordan is still on the staff, I think he is).

I just threw it out there. Pau is going to be traded for pennies on the dollar.... maybe I'm biased being around the Lakers, but I think Pau has a couple more good years in him... he's been alienated in Los Angeles. Blaming him for the playoff losses, and then sticking him on the bench.

Wouldn't Okafor+Ariza for Pau work out? Don't think Lakers would take Nene.... front court of Pau+Nene.