The Heat took care of the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers 101-88. And by everywhere, I mean at the free throw line.
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“I obviously don’t know exactly what happened”, Cuban said. I love him. You should too.
“He’s been just tremendous”, Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said.
In Bryant’s defense, he played a season-high 36 minutes in Sunday’s game. In the last complete game Bryant played during the 2014-15 season, he finished with 19 points and 17 assists.
“I’m glad that the country is staying strong right now”, Gobert said. “We could have mailed this one home but our guys came to play and I was happy about that”.
Bryant can’t deliver now the way he did in so many previous trips to NY as he battles his way back from a preseason calf injury, but plenty of fans wanted him to. “My back and my legs, it’s killing me”. The last five games were against Brooklyn, New York, Miami, Orlando and Dallas, teams with a combined 21-26 record before Saturday.
Deron Williams had 13 points and Dwight Powell collected 10 points and 12 rebounds for Dallas.
Knicks: Calderon came into the game shooting 25 percent for the season….
Bryant missed a 3-pointer with 40 seconds remaining that would have cut the Mavericks’ lead to one. But the Lakers pulled within 71-70 with 8 minutes left in the fourth.
The Lakers led by as many as 11 in the first half before taking a 48-44 lead at the break. And to be fair, Deron Williams is a vital to the offense running smoothly, and this was easily the worst game of his Mavs career. The Lakers aren’t making the playoffs and the season ends a few five months and 72 games from now.
“He said, ‘You look like you’re ready to kill somebody, ‘” Scott old the LA Times.
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Kobe Bryant saw Scott onboard the charter flight Thursday and stopped to talk.
Nowitzki and Bryant, both 37, exchanged smiles after Nowitzki spun under Bryant to score on an up-and-under layup during the second quarter.
“That was a great moment”, Bryant said. He wants to go out being treated as an enemy on the road that gets each team’s best shot. Dallas beat the Lakers in Los Angeles, 103-93, on November 1….
Coming off the emotional win over the Clippers on Wednesday night, the Mavericks found themselves locked into hosting the other team from Los Angeles Friday night.
“We’ve got to get this win here at home”, Bryant said.
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Sunday night, before the Lakers took on the Pistons, Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler were honored and given Los Angeles Lakers jerseys with their names and court side seats.
