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Chicago Bulls – Joakim Noah Makes Them Championship Contenders
Usually a guy who isn’t a superstar can’t carry an OK team all the way. But Joakim Noah doesn’t have to produce huge scoring nights in order to make the Chicago Bulls a team someone you should consider as potential NBA champions, or at least the ones to come out of the Eastern conference, pulling off triple doubles left and right in order to prove so, the latest coming in a 102-87 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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Brooklyn Nets – Great One Minute, Awful the Next
An impossible team to gauge and asses, the 2013-14 Brooklyn Nets. A day after beating the NBA champions without having to travel too far they lose 115-111 to the tanking Orlando Magic, as the question marks around this team’s ability to perform consistently in a playoff series are raised once again.
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Houston Rockets – James Harden is Embarrassing & Jeremy Lin Suffers For it
This isn’t what a team thinking about challenging for the title looks like, and a “superstar” like James Harden can’t be playing this badly and keep on doing the same thing as the Houston Rockets lose 123-116 to the Denver Nuggets, as Jeremy Lin was the only bright spot from the starting lineup that was benched for most of the fourth quarter.
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Oklahoma City Thunder – No Highlights, Better Basketball
When it comes to highlights, no team in the NBA can put up so many in one game like the Los Angeles Clippers with the aerial duo of Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan. But when it comes to basketball, and having a player that can win the game like he hasn’t just had an awful shooting night? The Oklahoma City Thunder, with Kevin Durant and a lot of Russell Westbrook, have the edge there, winning 107-101.
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Indiana Pacers – Who Needs Starters?
The Indiana Pacers looked at their recent struggles and decided that resting their starters will fix everything, deciding that a game against the Milwaukee Bucks is the perfect opportunity to test the theory. Evan Turner and Luis Scola carried the offense throughout, and Chris Copeland scored a game winning shot to come through 104-102.
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Miami Heat – Couldn’t Hold On to Home Court Advantage
It’s not that surprising that the Miami Heat lost to the Memphis Grizzlies 107-102; it’s an acceptable road loss. However, the timing of it was awful, costing them the top spot in the Eastern conference, and all of the points LeBron James scored really didn’t make a difference.
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Match Highlights – Atletico Madrid vs Barcelona, Bayern Munich vs Manchester United
At the Vicente Calderon, maybe a new chapter in European football is written as Atletico Madrid knocked Barcelona out with a 1-0 win thanks to an early goal from Koke, while Bayern Munich needed Manchester United to wake her up with a stunning goal from Patrice Evra to go through with a 3-1 win, making it to the semifinal of the Champions League.
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Macedonia vs Slovakia – Worst Refereeing Ever?
We don’t have too much information about this U-18 match between Slovakia and Macedonia, but it’s clearly one of the worst officiated matches we’ve ever come across, reeking of match fixing by the referee and the linesmen.
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Players Declaring Early for the 2014 NBA Draft So Far
There’s still time for players to declare themselves eligible for the 2014 NBA Draft, but we’ve already got pretty big names coming forward like Andrew Wiggins and Joel Embiid from Kansas after only one year, while Marcus Smart also heads to the pros, probably a year too late.
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11 Memes About Chelsea & Jose Mourinho Beating PSG in the Champions League
A two goal deficit from the first leg didn’t stop Chelsea from beating PSG and going through to the Champions League semifinals, with Jose Mourinho picking up most of the credit from the press, while obviously generating a lot of meme and jokes in the process.