Thursday, January 2, 2014

Setting the table for a Christmas feast

Young has scored more points this season than Dwyane Wade, Joe Johnson,wholesale cheap Oakley Grade AAA Sunglasses sale from www.alipaytrade.com homepage. Pau Gasol, Carlos Boozer and Chris Bosh. He has his Lakers teammates and coach Mike D'Antoni using various forms of "swag" as an adjective, verb and proper noun. He has made things fun for the Lakers in the midst of a season that easily could have made a right turn into Depressing Drive.He could do the same thing on a national stage on Christmas. And there's always the chance he could do something like this.The Miami Heat are grumbling about the absurdity that the defending champions have to travel across the country to play on Christmas and LeBron James worries about the effects the special sleeved jerseys will have on his team's shooters. They're both legitimate complaints. They also sound like the words of those who have been making annual appearances on Christmas. The novelty wears off and begins to feel like more of an obligation than a privilege."It's my first time playing on Christmas Day,There's still plenty to like if you choose to be optimistic. How about the plethora of point guards, including Stephen Curry, Tony Parker,Sexy Lingerie Factorylv monogram empreinte artsy price Chris Paul, Deron Williams and Russell Westbrook.Maybe we should add the Oklahoma City Thunder's Reggie Jackson to that list. He has been outstanding lately, averaging 14 points a game in December and giving the Thunder exactly what they need off the bench. The points are coming easily to him now, and if he plays like this in the playoffs, OKC could be going to the NBA Finals. 

I'd love to see Kevin Durant steal the spotlight from Jackson, though. I want to see Durant take advantage of the Madison Square Garden stage and go for 50. Durant gets it done every night, but it feels like it has been a while since he had one of those games that people talk about for days.The fourth game of the day,louis vuitton men handbags priceshoneycomb paper balls  the Houston Rockets at San Antonio Spurs, feels like it has the best chance of foretelling a playoff series.I'd love to see that series because a Spurs victory would reinforce a lost value in the NBA: continuity.Not only has San Antonio's core trio of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili been together for more than a decade, even newer additions such as Danny Green and Tiago Splitter are already in their fourth season with the Spurs. The Rockets, on the other hand, have only two players who were on the team as recently as 2011-12: Chandler Parsons and Greg Smith. I think it's appropriate that if the Rockets want to realize their potential to be among the best teams in the league, they'll first have to battle San Antonio to be the best team in the state.Those same regional rivalry rules apply to the Los Angeles Clippers and Warriors, the fifth matchup of the day and the one that promises to be the best. Only one of their past four games going back to last season has been decided by single digits, yet these have been some of the more memorable games because there's always some bickering between these two teams. Their Halloween matchup, which the Clippers won 126-115, featured a shoving match between Andrew Bogut and DeAndre Jordan and also a serious staredown from Warriors coach Mark Jackson after Blake Griffin bumped him on the sideline.

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