The Sports Review

I’ve just looked at the official clock on the NBA website and yes, it is exactly 8 days and 5 hours until the first game of the new season. While the preseason is fine and all, it just doesn’t cut it. It’s too tantalizing. Starters aren’t in long enough, the game really doesn’t matter, and even if your team wins it might not mean much. The regular season, now that’s where it’s at. Every minute counts, every point, every foul. Games have meaning and the team’s stars see a full workload. Only 8 more days until NBA game tickets become worthwhile…

On 3rd February Washington Wizard played a home game, which was in doubt in the last first quarter after the Kobe Bryant guard of Los Angeles Lakers’ drained a long jump shot. He patted Wizzard all star Caron Butler on his Back while going back on the defense side. This action seems disrespectful but they are friends and have played together in 2004-05 season. Game results are Lakers at 103 while Wizards at 91, which is not the usual sellout crowd record of fans cheering for visitors. They have came earlier for encouraging Bryant and his team but stayed late for the winners’ Lakers (30-16) who walked off the court with the victory. The match also had many interesting points for both Bryant’s and Laker’s fans but cheer has rolled through Wizard after the en route of scoring 30 points on 10 – 15 shooting with 6 rebounds and a pair of assists. Bryant was heavy for Wizards, repeatedly looked a step slow defensively while shot 43 from the field continuously. The coach Eddie Jordan later said that we had to play as one team to defeat Lakers or any other team, who has won a NBA 1982 Championship as a Laker.

The New York Knicks attempt to halt a seven-game losing streak when they visit the Chicago Bulls at the United Center. The Knicks play the finale of a three-game road trip. Yao Ming scored 30 points, grabbed eight rebounds, and dished out six assists to lead the Houston Rockets over New York, 103-91.

The two worst teams in the NBA meet on Tuesday night in Minneapolis (The Minnesota Timberwolves and Miami Heat). With each trying to snap its longest losing streak of the season. Miami (8-26) has dropped seven in a row since defeating Utah on Dec. 22, losing by an average of 10.1 points. Minnesota (4-29) has lost its last eight games by an average of 15.2 points. Center Al Jefferson has been one of the team’s few bright spots. The Heat snapped a six-game losing streak at Minnesota with a win there last season.

Marvin Williams, a 24-year-old Atlanta Hawks forward shot in the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Miami Heat on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2007, in Atlanta. As a result, the Hawks defeated the Heat 117-111. Williams matched his career high with 26 points.

Alex Rodriguez, known for his remarkable baseball playing, has set another record for baseball’s highest contract, finalizing his $275 million, 10-year agreement with the Yankees. The previous mark of the outstanding baseball player was his $252 million, 10-year deal with Texas in December 2000. However, after having been traded to the Yankees in 2004, he cancelled that contract during the final game of the World Series. The new deal allows Rodriguez to earn $30 million more for achieving historic records.

P.S. A-Rod is 18th on the career list with 518 homers, 244 shy of Barry Bonds‘ record.

Jackson made 2 three-pointers in a 20-second span in the 4th quarter and Ellis scored twenty-two points to rally the Warriors past the Sacramento Kings. Golden State scored the game’s final 9 points. Stephen Jackson’s back-to-back three-pointers, the 2nd one coming with 1:21 left, helped erase a 4-point deficit and put Golden State ahead 98-96 with 1:11 remaining. Stephen Jackson finished with 21 points. Martin scored twenty-eight points and 7 rebounds for Sacramento that has lost 4 of 5 games.

At New Orleans, Howard, who had twenty-four points and fifteen rebounds, helped the Orlando Magic jump out to a big lead. Lewis finishing with ninteen points, hit a pair of crucial 3-pointers in the 4th quarter, the 2nd one giving Orlando an 89-84 lead with 86 seconds to go. Already playing without Paul, who had to miss his 2nd game with a sprained right ankle, New Orleans (9-3) lost Chandler in the 2nd quarter, after the starting centre extended his right knee. Fortunately, X-rays were negative