Has the tide shifted in the East? The Celtics beat the Heat for the second time in 10 days on Tuesday, adding some intrigue to the playoff chase. In Chicago, the Bulls exacted revenge on the Knicks despite missing Derrick Rose (again).For all of Tuesday’s NBA box scores, check out SI.com’s NBA scoreboard.
Lester Hudson, Opportunity And The Beauty Of April In The NBA
And that, right there, brings us to the beauty of April in the NBA.
The preceding few paragraphs probably didn’t present any new information to those that have followed Hudson’s career, but that demographic probably makes up approximately zero percent of the internet’s readership. Hudson essentially came from nowhere, according to the majority of the NBA’s fanatics, and that’s not such a bad thing.
Read Article >Sixers Vs. Nets: Philadelphia Uses Defense, Bench To Dominate
Getty ImagesPhilly started slow, dropping behind by eight points early, 12-4, but this would represent the high point for the Nets, as the Sixers bench entered the game and began to assert themselves in the game.
The Nets kept it close for the first half, but slowly lost ground as the game wore on. Just as the Sixers gently lure teams into taking long jump shot after long jump shot, not realizing they are slowly getting trapped in an inefficient strategy, so too the Sixers lead slowly got larger and larger, gradually extending until it extended to 23 in the fourth quarter. Philly largest run was a single 9-0 run in the fourth quarter.
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