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Los Angeles Clippers – Chris Paul Leads the Best Show in Town
Lobs, dunks and Alley-oops mean that the Los Angeles Clippers are rollin’, and despite falling a little bit behind the top two in the Western Conference, Chris Paul isn’t going to let his team slip too far down the charts of the playoff seeding, making life easy and fun for Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan.
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Golden State Warriors – Get Their Revenge on the Houston Rockets
After three consecutive wins over the Golden State Warriors, another good game from Jeremy Lin against his former team and an OK one from James Harden didn’t really help the Houston Rockets, who didn’t get anything from anyone else, while the sharpshooting duo of Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson couldn’t miss a shot.
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Oklahoma City Thunder – Kevin Durant At His Best in Fourth Quarters
Not the best of games from Kevin Durant, but it doesn’t really matter when you size down the time-frame to only a fourth quarter, in which the top scorer in the NBA thrived with his usual unstoppable shooting, leading his Oklahoma City Thunder to a seasonal sweep of the Dallas Mavericks.
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Miami Heat – Continue to Get Closer to NBA Record
Another one down, 11 to go. The Miami Heat have now won 22 consecutive games, tied for second best in the history of the NBA when it comes to winning streaks, while LeBron James keeps scratching triple double numbers, Dwyane Wade is the perfect sidekick and Ray Allen finally brings his early season ability in a wild fourth quarter.
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Portland Trail Blazers – LaMarcus Aldridge Next to Keep Them in NBA Playoffs Race
A three man team can still make the postseason, if they actually get big games from their entire starting five. The Portland Trail Blazers are mostly about LaMarcus Aldridge, Nicolas Batum and Damian Lillard, but sometimes they get a little bit more from J.J. Hickson and Wesley Matthews.
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Utah Jazz – Gordon Hayward Rises Above Suffocating Physicality
The Utah Jazz want to physical and tough each and every night, just like the Memphis Grizzlies usually have been over the last three seasons. Still, someone needs to rise above all the brutishness and score some points, and Gordon Hayward, part of the future the Jazz are hoping will be a bright one, became the one that rises.
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San Antonio Spurs – Tim Duncan on Best Big Man in NBA Mode
It has been harder on Tim Duncan at certain moments this season to shine, but still, you don’t expect a 36 year old man to turn on the time machine so often and play like these are his MVP days every night. And still, without Tony Parker, it seems that’s just what the San Antonio Spurs need him to be doing.
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Indiana Pacers – Developing a Worrying Mini Crisis
Earlier this season, the Indiana Pacers, thanks to the defense and the offensive rise of Paul George, looked like a potential dark horse to win the East. All of a sudden, the wheels are falling off, as fatigue and simply bad play are hurting this team badly, possibly even losing their second spot in the conference.
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Boston Celtics – Finally Beating the Worst Team in the NBA
It took the Boston Celtics three attempts, but they finally got the best of the Worst team in the NBA, with no one in particular standing out, while not even needing Kevin Garnett to dress up for the game or travel with them.
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Los Angeles Lakers – A Zero Kobe Bryant Can’t Stop Dwight Howard
Healthy Kobe Bryant or injured, the Los Angeles Lakers weren’t supposed to win on the road against the Indiana Pacers. But Dwight Howard is in a different mode at the moment, and so is the rest of the team, so even 0 points from their almighty ruler couldn’t stop them from getting an unexpected yet huge win.