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Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant Breaks Records While Being Awful
The most important thing? The Los Angeles Lakers won another game, on the road of all places, to stay in the race for the final ticket the NBA has to offer in the Western playoffs. Things of less importance all have to do with Kobe Bryant, not resting a single minute, moving up the NBA’s all time scoring list, shooting terribly from the field while posting assist numbers to make us think he’s a “team” player.
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Utah Jazz – Randy Foye is Next to Keep Playoff Hopes Alive
All of a sudden, the Utah Jazz have guards, some would even call them point guards, that can score points and make a difference. Randy Foye had his best game of the season with a rare shooting night, while Mo Williams continued his late-season heroics, as the two are suddenly pushing a team that looked on the verge of an embarrassing collapse back into the NBA postseason picture.
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Oklahoma City Thunder – Kevin Durant Makes Up for an Ugly Russell Westbrook Triple Double
Even when he posts a triple double, Russell Westbrook has to do it with some awful shooting numbers, showing just how much more work has to be done in regards of taming his offensive tendencies. The exact opposite might be said of Kevin Durant, the perfect scoring machine, about to win the scoring title despite not being the player taking the most shots on the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Kind of Basketball Without James Harden
While a lot of the success and ascent into a playoff team this season has to do with James Harden joining the Houston Rockets, the kind of basketball he forces the team to play doesn’t always benefit them and suit the rest of the players. This time, without him on the floor, Jeremy Lin didn’t break out into some memorable performance, but he was the anchor of a different, team-oriented game that might be more suitable for the Rockets’ needs.
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Dallas Mavericks – Dirk Nowitzki Does Too Much A Little Too Late
It’s gotten to be a thing of norm for the Dallas Mavericks to be rescued into victory by some late game heroics not to mention clutch shooting, from Dirk Nowitzki. In the 2013 version of him and them, it doesn’t seem to be enough to keep their NBA playoff streak alive.
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NCAA Tournament – Syracuse & Wichita State Make it Into the Final Four
The first half of the Elite Eight weekend began with one very surprising result, as Wichita State didn’t just play better defense than the Buckeyes from Ohio State, but actually beat them to make their first final four in nearly 50 years. In the Big Easy derby between Syracuse and Marquette we saw a basketball game that showed a lot of the problems of the sport, while the Orange were the main benefactors of the ugliness.
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Kobe Bryant Moves to Fourth on All-Time Scoring List
With 30 points in a much needed win for the Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant moved up another spot on the NBA’s all-time scoring list, surpassing Wilt Chamberlain and ending up, for now, with 31,415 points, leaving him behind only Michael Jordan, Karl Malone and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
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Elite Eight – Wichita State vs Ohio State Predictions
While it’s pretty obvious that Ohio State are the big favorites to win this Elite Eight matchup, the one game with the least amount of parity in it among the four in this round, it’s hard to say that Wichita State aren’t good enough for the upset after already making it this far.
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Elite Eight – Syracuse vs Marquette Predictions
At some point in every NCAA tournament, it comes down to two teams that know each other very well, as it is the case with Syracuse and Marquette, two teams from the falling apart Big East, trying to make the final four for the first time in a decade.
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Utah Jazz – Mo Williams Might Get Them to the NBA Playoffs After All
Never count out anyone in the NBA. Not a player, not a team. The Utah Jazz looked on their way towards a lottery pick thanks to a late-season collapse and having no reliable point guard. So Mo Williams comes out of nowhere in a very inconsistent season from him, aided by finally a big game from both Paul Millsap and Al Jefferson, inching the Jazz towards what might look like another playoff season.