The stars led the way. It was the other guys who made the difference. Lamar Odom scored 21 points, Kobe Bryant added 19 points and a season-high 10 assists, and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the New Jersey Nets 99-93 on Sunday night.
The Phoenix Suns' rebound appears to be complete. After a 1-5 start to the season, the Suns have gone 6-1 and won their fourth straight in a 119-101 rout of the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday night.
San Antonio's Tim Duncan became the third player in Spurs history to reach 15,000 points, accomplishing the feat Sunday night against Seattle.
Tony Parker was blunt in his own assessment. For three quarters, he did very little to help San Antonio. Parker's nearly perfect fourth quarter, however, kept the Spurs perfect away from home.
Don't tell the Denver Nuggets this was just another game. Not after what the Los Angeles Clippers did to them in the playoffs last year. Carmelo Anthony had 33 points, J.R. Smith added 23 and the Nuggets got at least a small amount of revenge against their nemesis, beating the Clippers 103-88 on Sunday night for their fifth straight win.
Lamar Odom scored 21 points, Kobe Bryant added 19 points and a season-high 10 assists, and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the New Jersey Nets 99-93 on Sunday night. Kwame Brown had 13 points and nine rebounds and Smush Parker also scored 13 for the Lakers, winners of five of their last six games.
South African basketball suffered a tragic loss when leading coach and former Serbian national player Nikola Jokanovic died while coaching his team in a Premier Basketball League (PBL) match in Johannesburg on Sunday.
It ruined the Shaquille O'Neal-Kobe Bryant pairing in Los Angeles, but Tracy McGrady will not let it derail Houston's title hopes.
Yao Ming scored 28 points, Tracy McGrady added 19 points and matched a career high with 13 assists, and the Houston Rockets beat the Memphis Grizzlies 85-76 on Saturday night.
George Karl pushed and prodded his Nuggets to speed up the game. "We can push it faster," the Denver coach implored. The Nuggets were already leading the league in scoring, so how much faster could they go? Denver found another gear in a 140-129 win over the Golden State Warriors on Friday night.
It could very well have been a preview of this season's Western Conference finals. But for San Antonio, a 95-92 loss to Dallas on Friday night was more a repeat of last season's West semifinals, when the Spurs lost to the Mavericks at home in overtime in Game 7.
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