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Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant Avoiding Temptation
Kobe Bryant watched Kevin Durant attempt 26 shots; he saw Russell Westbrook take 22 shots. Still, the master of forgetting about your teammates and going on a solo mission to improve his scoring average did what’s best for the Los Angeles Lakers, not his own individual stat sheet, and came away with the team’s biggest win of the season.
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Miami Heat – Hit and Miss From LeBron James
Some games, numbers and even making clutch shots isn’t enough to win. LeBron James did send the game into overtime with a big three to end regulation, but he also dragged his team into a bad offensive display, and couldn’t prevent a game winning shot against a team the Miami Heat were supposed to beat.
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Boston Celtics – Going on Without Rajon Rondo
The win against the NBA champions despite not having Rajon Rondo, now out for the season after tearing his ACL, proves just one thing: For the Boston Celtics to have any sort of chance of making anything happen this season, they need Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett at their best all the time, and I’m pretty sure that’s impossible.
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NFL Free Agency – Finding Protection for Jay Cutler
While some suggest that not keeping Jay Cutler is the right way to go for the Chicago Bears, there’s a very good chance they’ll keep the polarizing quarterback and do the logical thing: Improve his protection, by going after offensive linemen like Ryan Clady and Andre Smith in the upcoming free agency period.
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Tim Tebow, No Longer a Quarterback
After a disastrous season for Tim Tebow, his future in the NFL is questionable. Not if he has a place in it, but at what position. There’s a very good chance he won’t be with the New York Jets anymore, but even somewhere else, it’s hard seeing anyone giving him the chance to start at his preferred position.
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NFL Trades – Alex Smith Wants to be Released
It doesn’t take a genius to do the math and realize that the San Francisco 49ers are going to have a hard time keeping a quarterback due $8.5 million in 2013 on the bench. Alex Smith wants to play, and he wants to do it on his own terms, which means not getting traded by the 49ers; he wants to be released before free agency begins.
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Greatest All-Time Scorers in Football Leagues
Now that Lionel Messi is past the 200 La Liga goals mark in his career before his 26th birthday, it’s safe to assume that at the current rate of scoring he might be the top scorer in the Spanish first division, All-Time, before the end of 2013. He’s the only one in Europe’s major leagues even close to the greatest scorers ever in each division.
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FC Barcelona – Everything Changes But Lionel Messi
There were some talks about Lionel Messi sitting out the league match, in order to prepare for a more important test further down the week. Discussions of his fitness didn’t really matter, and a change of tactics made no difference as well. The finest scoring machine on planet earth led Barcelona to another convincing win, and looks more than ready for the Clasico that’s coming up.
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Real Madrid – Cristiano Ronaldo Better With Mesut Ozil & Angel Di Maria
At this stage of his career, it doesn’t really matter if the thing that truly motivates Cristiano Ronaldo is titles or individual success. He’s not going to win mister popular as long as the other greatest player in the world is around, but he can play at the same level, almost all of the time, and especially when Mesut Ozil and Angel Di Maria look like themselves.
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Thunder vs Lakers Predictions
Instead of following a win with a nice, comfortable stretch of games to build some sort of winning streak, the Los Angeles Lakers have to face a team that has already beaten them twice this season and quite a few would argue is the best in the NBA, the Oklahoma City Thunder.