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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

play nba 08 with playboy bunnies

OK, folks, here's your chance to show some Playboy bunnies just how good you are at NBA '08.
Wednesday night, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., at Bloomingdale's locations on Beverly Boulevard and on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles and on Market Street in San Francisco, the ladies with the iconic bunny tails and ears will be on hand, ostensibly for the launch of a new Playboy line of clothes, but also to play some video game hoops with fans.
Now, you may be a wizard at using your joystick to make Shaq slamdunk over your neighborhood buddies, but what will you do when your opponent is a bunny? Freeze up? Showboat? Play as normal?
Well, be you boy or girl, man or woman, this is your chance to find out. And hey, despite the fact that playing video games may not be what they're best known for, the bunnies might very well own you. You'll never know unless you show up to find out.

Monday, October 15, 2007

Alec kessler a miami heat former-center dies at age 40.


Alec Kessler, a former Miami Heat forward-center who wound up achieving more as an orthopedic surgeon than on the basketball court, died Saturday in Pensacola, Fla., of an apparent heart attack. He was 40.
According to a release from the University of Georgia, Kessler was playing in a pickup basketball game when stricken.
Kessler, the 12th player taken in the 1990 draft, was acquired by the Heat from Houston on draft day that year and spent four seasons with Miami. He averaged 5.2 points in the NBA.
Coming out of Georgia, Kessler was lauded by then-Heat partner Billy Cunningham as a combination of power player and accurate shooter. Instead, Kessler struggled with the physical nature of the pro game and soon began to plan for a medical career, having deferred his 1990 acceptance into the Emory School of Medicine.
Kessler graduated from Emory's medical school in 1999 and later worked as an orthopedic surgeon in the Charlotte, N.C., area and in Pensacola, residing in a nearby suburb.
"He was such a bright man with such a great future," Heat trainer Ron Culp said Sunday. "The thing I remember with Alec was he was so absorbed with his future. He always sat in the back of the airplane and the entire plane would be darkened except for Alec, and he would always be reading his medical books.
"It didn't matter if he had played that night. And he would always be coming in the training room and questioning the training staff and medical staff and our doctors

Sunday, October 14, 2007

PISTONS BEAT DENVER 109-106.

Jarvis Hayes scored 24 points and Tayshaun Prince added 19 points to help the Detroit Pistons beat the Denver Nuggets 109-106 in a preseason game Sunday.
The Nuggets were missing most of their top players, including Carmelo Anthony, Allen Iverson, Kenyon Martin and Nene.
Detroit had its full lineup, but guard Richard Hamilton left the game midway through the third quarter after spraining his left ankle while going for a rebound. Chauncey Billups added 16 points and Jason Maxiell had 16 points and 11 rebounds for the Pistons.
Michigan native Anthony Roberson led the Nuggets with 20 points, while Bobby Jones scored 17 and Von Wafer added 16. Marcus Camby was the only Denver starter to reach double figures, finishing with 10 points and 16 rebounds.
Detroit led by as many as 13 in the first half, and had a 63-54 halftime advantage. Prince had 17 of his 19 in the first half.
Denver, though, rallied in the third quarter, tying the game at 74 on Camby's fast-break dunk with 3 minutes left. The game was deadlocked at 79 going into the fourth, and stayed close throughout the period. Roberson's jumper pulled Denver within 105-104 with 27.6 seconds left.
Maxiell made it 107-104 with two free throws, and Roberson missed a tying 3-pointer before rookie Rodney Stuckey clinched the game from the line.

LaMarcus Aldridge had 29 points and nine rebounds to lead the Portland Trail Blazers to a 102-89 victory over Atlanta on Sunday, the Hawks' first loss in four preseason games.
Channing Frye added 14 points and six rebounds, and Joel Przybilla had 12 rebounds for the Trail Blazers (2-1). Marvin Williams led the Hawks with 18 points and seven rebounds, and Joe Johnson added 15 points.
Two members of last season's NCAA champion Florida team opposed each other, with Al Horford finishing with 14 points and 11 rebounds for Atlanta and Taurean Green scoring seven points in limited action for the Trail Blazers.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Washington Wizards beat the Dallas Mavericks 90-86 -10/13/07


- Andray Blatche had 12 points and 10 points, and the Washington Wizards beat the Dallas Mavericks 90-86 in a foul-filled preseason game on Saturday night.

Dallas, which played without three of its four top scorers from last season - reigning MVP Dirk Nowitzki, point guard Jason Terry and swingman Jerry Stackhouse - hardly resembled a team that won an NBA-best 67 games in the regular season. Nowitzki, Terry and Stackhouse were rested by coach Avery Johnson.

Washington, which took a 59-58 lead when Blatche hit two free throws with 3:22 to play in the third quarter, expanded its lead in the fourth quarter when coach Eddie Jordan made liberal use of his bench. After Dallas' Maurice Ager scored on a layup to cut the Washington lead to 67-66 with 10:05 to play, the Wizards scored 11 straight points to take a 78-66 lead with 6:14 to play.

Ager scored 11 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter, leading a late Dallas run. Jared Newson hit two free throws with 11.3 seconds remaining to cut Washington's lead to 88-86. Dallas is 1-2 in the preseason.

The Wizards (2-0) shot 43 free throws, missing 14 of them. The Mavericks converted 25 of their 30 as the teams combined to commit 51 fouls.

Gilbert Arenas, in his second game after undergoing left knee surgery last April, played 17 minutes and had six points. He played 21 minutes and had nine points in his first game on Tuesday.

Brendan Haywood had 10 first-quarter points, but didn't play again.


Carmelo Anthony had 22 points and seven rebounds and the Denver Nuggets beat the Portland Trail Blazers 118-102 on Friday night.

Linas Kleiza added 19 points for Denver. Allen Iverson scored 17 points in the game, played at the University of Colorado.

Martell Webster led Portland with 19 points. Travis Outlaw had 18 points.

Anthony had 20 points in the first half as Denver took a 64-56 lead into halftime. Outlaw hit three straight shots in the second quarter and had all of his 18 points by the break for Portland, which led 51-45 with 4:08 remaining in the period.

Denver began the third period with a 15-5 run to move ahead 79-61. Kleiza had nine of his points in the period and the Nuggets took a 97-79 lead into the fourth quarter.

Without a starter on the floor, the Nuggets extended their lead to 105-79 on eight consecutive points by Anthony Roberson at the start of the fourth quarter. Baskets by Webster and Taurean Green got Portland as close as 110-94 with 3:15 left.

Kelenna Azubuike scored 22 points and the Golden State Warriors beat the Los Angeles Lakers 119-106-10/11/07


Kelenna Azubuike scored 22 points and the Golden State Warriors beat the Los Angeles Lakers 119-106 on Thursday night, completing a sweep of the teams' two-game exhibition series.

Marco Belinelli had 18 points, Mickael Pietrus added 17 and Troy Hudson 16 for Golden State, which beat Los Angeles 111-110 on Tuesday night.

Derek Fisher and Vladimir Radmanovic had 12 points apiece for the Lakers, and Andrew Bynum, Chris Mihm and Kobe Bryant added 11 each.

The Warriors outscored the Lakers in each quarter and looked like the offense that was second in the league with an average of 106.5 points per game last season.
KEVIN GARNETT AND THE BOSTON CELTICS DEFEAT THE MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES. (10/10/07-PRE-SEASON) .