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LAST NIGHT IN ONE HOT MINUTE: In the most important, competitive game, the Wizards beat the Bulls. In other news from the blessed East, the Hawks racked up their 10th straight win, the Raptors beat the Sixers in DeMar DeRozan's return and the Pistons fell to the Pelicans, who are not going away. The Spurs beat the Hornets in a close one, thanks in part to the Basketball Gods smiting Charlotte for P.J. Hairston committing perhaps the worst flop ever. (That thing is high school production of Julius Caesar bad.) The Grizzlies beat the Nets and Marc Gasol dropped all jawks with a stunning pass.
The West had a power tilt too as the Clippers got a big win over the Blazers in Portland. The Warriors had no issue with Miami and thus expanded their lead on No. 1. We had a couple of upsets out there: Denver beat Dallas (schedule loss!) and Orlando beat Houston (Victor Oladipo 360 finishing move!). To see recaps of all of these games, check out our NBA Scores hub.
BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY ... we met Jusuf Nurkic's dad, a 7-foot, 400-pound cop in the city of Tuzla in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The story of how Mr. Nurkic's, uh, valor led to Jusuf's discovery by basketball types at age 14 is instant legend.
LET'S PICK ALL-STARS: Paul Flannery and I picked our All-Star reserves based on the expected starters. We differed only with two East spots.
YES YES YES: Lee Jenkins wrote a Nick Young profile.
BROOK LOPEZ RUMORS! The Heat are reportedly interested, but does he make sense there?
SAY WHAT YOU WILL ... about arena projects and public financing of such. But one undeniably neat thing happening in Sacramento: a good chunk of apprentices working construction jobs were plucked from low-income neighborhoods and in some cases, the street. For those 80 young men and women, this job is a legitimate life-changer. Policy that prevented poverty and homelessness is much preferred; given where we're at on that, smaller considerations are always in order.
MANIFEST WHAT NOW? Adam Silver talks about wanting four NBA franchises in Europe. Well.
ABOUT KEVIN LOVE: His defense would seem to be a consistent problem for the Cavaliers.
KEVIN THE BLOWFISH: Zito Madu on what Kevin Garnett has become.
ANOTHER DRAFT UPDATE: DraftExpress' top 100 got a Wednesday update.
WELL: Daryl Morey is definitely a purveyor of somewhat skeezy dad humor.
AWESOME: Great Ramona Shelburne story on Damian Lillard in crunch time.
IF THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE INTO: A comprehensive review of every comment Mark Jackson made during the Warriors game he worked last week. I think 90 percent of this stuff is shrug-worthy, but there it is.
NEAT: Twitter released some maps showing what NBA teams get mentioned the most in each county.
INDEED: I mentioned the other day that interestingly the main players in the Josh Smith saga have handled it with such class. Howard Beck wrote a good piece on everyone being happy with the results of the transaction.
UGH RINSE REPEAT: I wrote about Ty Corbin's baffling endgame management yesterday. I'm still baffled.
Happy Thursday. See you next time.
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