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Sunday Amare Stoudemire scored 21 points, Steve Nash added 20 for Phoenix, and then they sat during the fourth quarter to watch the Suns 117-91 overcome some weary Detroit Pistons, who suffered their fifth straight loss.
Brazilian Leandro Barbosa scored 10 points.
Nash hit seven of eight field goals and nine assists. Jason Richardson scored 17 points and the Suns (11-3) had six different players who scored 10 or more units, to put their 5-0 mark at home.
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Edited: November 27th, 2009
Just in time
Forward Kevin Garnett had not had his best game, but saved the best for last, a basket when the final whistle sounded the overtime that allowed the Boston Celtics win (105-107) to the New York Knicks, in the legendary Madison Square Garden.
The pass was forward Paul Pierce of the player who was again the leader of the Celtics (10-4) to get 33 points, nine rebounds and six assists.
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Edited: November 25th, 2009
Together they are dynamite
Trio Bryant-Gasol-Bynum caused havoc to the defense of Thunder at Lakers win
Guard Kobe Bryant, center Andrew Bynum and Spanish forward Pau Gasol returned to find the best coordination and effectiveness in the attack game Los Angeles Lakers 101-85 to be imposed by the Oklahoma City Thunder.
This time was the great figure Gasol, as happened last Thursday in his debut against the Chicago Bulls, when it made a double-double of 24 points and 13 rebounds, but was also present to be the perfect complement to his two companions who were the leading scorer.
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Edited: November 23rd, 2009
NBA: Mavericks 129, Raptors 101; Nowitzki scores 29 points
DALLAS (AP) The German Saturday Dirk Nowitzki scored 29 points and nine rebounds, and his teammate Josh Howard had 16 points in his first game of the season and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Raptors 129-101 in Toronto.
Jason Terry added 19 points and Shawn Marion added 18 points and eight rebounds for Dallas after converting his last nine field goals.
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Edited: November 8th, 2009
The Chamber Of Departure
After a long climb, the ladder shows a high stone chamber. We found no symbols or pictures on the walls, but the ground is flooded with water, reaching to the waist of a human male. Hovering in the background there is a small boat, black intancto despite the centuries to be carried there. A warning is written near the entrance: “We started, but our shadows remain. Come at your own risk.”
If someone enters the camera, several souls will emerge from the water to attack. At the same time, the door slam and may not be opened from the inside until they have finished with the last of souls. Among the attackers is a Soul Sentinel exceptional size, wearing the headdress of Pharaoh Chaldea. Great treasures waiting to board the boat, including a relic that gives bonuses to all forest resources when inserted into the stone of a clan.
Edited: October 29th, 2009
‘Angels and Demons’ will vastly improve as seen in ‘The DaVinci Code’
October 20 goes on sale ‘Angels and Demons’ in ten different versions between different packs that can be found on DVD, Blu-ray and UMD. The latest film by Ron Howard, who won the best director Oscar for ‘A Beautiful Mind’ (though nowhere near his best film, being much more solid ‘Apollo 13′ or the hilarious ‘Willow’), finally comes to market home, with a roster of stars that not only gives the name of Howard, but comes starring Tom Hanks and Ewan McGregor (two players as the top of a pine), adapting one of the greatest successes of Dan Brown, the Stephen King of the conspiranoia.Para flee from the film in its theatrical release for fear of possible resemblance to ‘The Davinci Code’, advanced to lose that fear and give it a chance, because if it is true that “The Davinci Code ‘is a sort of sequel to the work at hand, is only about the main character and how to wear a classic thriller plot, but at all what is in spirit. While in ‘The Davinci Code’ supernatural issues we found, a leisurely pace and a final conclusion that led many orgasms as arcades in the audience, in ‘Angels and Demons’ plot is advanced by a much more earthy, more realistic and therefore credible which makes it much more interesting because the absence of divine elements much closer to the viewer what happens.
Edited: October 26th, 2009
A list of certain NBA player injuries craziest:
1. Kevin Johnson, Phoenix Suns - After nailing a game-winning basket in 1993, Johnson was mobbed by his teammates. Unfortunately for him, his team at the time included Charles Barkley, the KJ greeted with a bear hug monster. Barkley squeezed him like a tube of toothpaste, and struck so hard that Johnson dislocated his shoulder and pushed. He missed a good two weeks after the operation.
2. Drew Gooden (notes), Orlando Magic - Gooden once was in the hospital for an infected leg hair follicles, even if he tries to convince people it was a spider bite. The wound was Gooden bands of 83 consecutive appearances while with magic and the treatment involved a direct link to antibiotic infusion. After three days, was the Staph bacteria.
3. Lionel Simmons, Sacramento Kings - Yes. Fans have Sactown poor through what happened. Kings rookie Lionel Simmons missed two games during the 1991 season, when he developed tendinitis in his right wrist while playing video games too many, mainly the Nintendo Game Boy.
4. Derrick Rose (leaf), the Chicago Bulls - The Bulls last season, the rookie talent missed a practice or two days after taking 10 stitches to close a wound suffered by the arm, as he said that he was traveling on a knife while eating an apple in bed. “It was a stupid incident,” Rose said at the time. Was “I cut some food and I put the razor still in bed lazy. I went for a bottle of water, returned the knife is forgotten down, then sat down and sliced his arm. ”
5. Muggsy Bogues, Toronto Raptors - During the 1999/00 season Muggsy LIL ‘for the second half of a game, was benched because he accidentally inhaled ointment muscle halftime. Muggsy had trouble breathing and complained of dizziness.
6. Charles Barkley, Phoenix Suns - I guess what goes around comes around, Chuck. “The Round Mound of Rebound” was once the injured list during the 1994/95 season with a cornea burned staves. Apparently, the lights in a concert of Eric Clapton, he went to hell if he rubbed his eyes. So what? Well, the pH balance of hand lotion may take more than the eyes.
Edited: October 13th, 2009