NBA schedule: Heat stretch win streak to 21

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• The morality of Lakers trolling

• Did Dahntay Jones intentionally hurt Kobe Bryant?

• The morality of Lakers trolling

• Did Dahntay Jones intentionally hurt Kobe Bryant?

• The morality of Lakers trolling

• Did Dahntay Jones intentionally hurt Kobe Bryant?

So maybe he is human after all. A little bit, anyway.

• The morality of Lakers trolling

Or maybe we’re giving too much credit to Kobe and he just diagrammed a crude response to hecklers for Dwight.

Sigh.

The Nuggets have climbed to within 1.5 games of the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference playoff bracket -- currently occupied by the Grizzlies -- and the Clippers are no doubt nervous about being sandwiched in the middle of that mess with the final seed that bestows home-court advantage.

The stakes are high. Denver can clinch the head-to-head tiebreaker over Memphis with a win, as they’ve won two of the first three matchups this season, while Memphis needs a win to tie the series and initiate the secondary tiebreaker (conference record -- which Denver leads at this time).

LeBron has owned the Bucks. In 35 games against Milwaukee, LBJ has posted 29.4 points on 49.7 percent shooting, 7.4 rebounds and 7.0 assists per contest, which makes the recent trend in the matchup so strange. Things may not be the same for the Bucks now that Scott Skiles is gone, however:

Long-time Bucks fans are familiar with a 20-game winning streak, as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Oscar Robertson and the 1970-71 Bucks ripped off 20-straight victories during their championship season. That mark stands as the third-longest winning streak in NBA history.

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