Weekend Wake Up: Rose Slams Suns, Hoops For Haiti, Duncan’s 20K, Posey’s Wild Week

Suns Burned by Rose. Derrick Rose had 32 points to lift his Bulls over the Suns, 115 to 104. But his best two points were the ones that will haunt Goran Dragic for a while.

Points Provide. Nice of Rose to show up, too: He was one of ten NBA players topledge to donate $1,000 for every point he scored on Friday night. The players, who included Pau Gasol, Joe Johnson, and Tyreke Evans, combined to score 135 points, but the agency those players share, which represents 47 NBA players total, planned to give a minimum of $500,000 total to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. So it won’t be a pittance, and the Wasserman Media Group deserves commendation for making this more than a noble PR ploy.

Duncan’s Twenty Thou in the League. Tim Duncan was not among the players donating for points scored on Friday. He might want to consider kicking in for his career total, though: He scored his 20,000th point on his first shot of the night, becoming the 35th player in NBA history to reach the milestone. It didn’t help the Spurs, who lost to the Rockets and have dropped four of five.

Strike a Posey. When the New Orleans Hornets brought James Posey in before the 2008-09 season, they anticipated him winning games late for them. They probably would have preferred those games be in May and June, though. Posey did sink the game-winner to beat the Timberwolves last night, giving him buzzer-beaters in the Hornets’ last two games, but it’s little consolation for a team that needs buzzer-beaters to beat Memphis and Minnesota.

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