Cheap Jerseys Dwight Howard led the Orlando Magic to a 97-86 win against the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA on Monday night.Howard scored 28 points and took 18 rebounds as the Magic looked comfortable in the first three quarters before holding off a Cleveland fightback which took them to 92-83 with little over three minutes remaining.
The Indiana Pacers left New Jersey with a narrow 102-98 win over the Nets as they fight for a play-off spot in the Eastern Conference.Roy Hibbert scored 24 points for the Pacers while the Nets have now lost four on the trot.The San Antonio Spurs were 111-96 winners against the Golden State Warriors but lost Tim Duncan to an ankle injury.
NBA Orlando Magic Jerseys Manu Ginobili top-scored with 28 for the Texans.The Boston Celtics rallied with 10 unanswered late points to beat the New York Knicks 96-86 as they warm up for the play-offs.Kevin Garnett out-shone rival Carmelo Anthony, the Celtics man scoring 24 points to his counterpart’s 22.The Memphis Grizzlies beat the visiting Utah Jazz 103-85 while in Chicago, the Bulls hammered the Sacramento Kings 132-92 with Derrick Rose and Kyle Korver scoring 18 points each.
The Denver Nuggets were similarly comfortable in beating the Toronto Raptors 123-90.This scenario sounds far-fetched now, given Gilbert’s struggles since arriving in a mid-December trade.I’m OK with having a controversy with players fighting for a job,” Smith said. “That’s a good problem to have. I’ll deal with t
hat issue.”Smith’s response came when I asked him about the clouds hovering over Arenas’ future with the Magic.He hasn’t been healthy, bothered by a troublesome left leg. And — as a career starter — Arenas is not happy as Nelson’s back-up, even though he’s showed little progress with his downsized minutes.
NBA Jerseys So how does the view change for Arenas and the Magic over the next three seasons, with Gil making $20 million per?Arenas can’t challenge Nelson until he’s right physically. “I mean, I don’t know,” Arenas told me. “All I can do is get the leg back to beef-cake.”In Gil-speak, “back to beef-cake” means a leg that proudly could be displayed in a muscle magazine – and is basketball functional.
Added Arenas, “When people look at the production and then they look at my salary, they’re like, ‘He’s not producing.’ This team is not built for me to come in and dominate. It’s built for me to come in and co-exist with everybody else.I doubt Arenas ever will embrace coming off the bench, much less his freelance personality fitting into Stan Van Gundy’s structured style. Smith disagrees, throwing in a caveat.”Can Gil embrace it? Yeah. Can he embrace it on the fly? I’m not necessarily sure,” Smith said.Smith feels Arenas needs more time, especially with Van Gundy. But at some point, as his mentor/father figure since their Golden State days 10 years ago,
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Cheap Jerseys Wholesale Smith needs Arenas to justify why he risked making the deal.”I think it puts more pressure on Otis, yeah,” Arenas said. “I want to do well, period.”Smith concedes, “I took a chance” on Arenas, but he said the bigger picture in dealing Lewis was providing youngsters Brandon Bass and Ryan Anderson with playing time.Smith might be close to Arenas – oddly, he’s just as close to Nelson — but he’s dishing some tough love. He says Arenas hasn’t played well enough to “make a case” to complain about playing time.
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