| NBA Playoffs news, notes, injuries etc... |
Fri, 27 April 2012 12:35  |
 Marty Otto
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Might be a good time to give this its own thread... post em as you get em
-Boston G Ray Allen only given a 60% chance of playing Sunday by coach Doc Rivers (per Gary Washburn's twitter)
-Miami F Chris Bosh, despite not playing since April 16th, has returned to the practice and sounds like he will be 100% by the start of their series (per Miami Herald)
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| Re: NBA Playoffs news, notes, injuries etc... |
Fri, 27 April 2012 14:29  |
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Knicks center Chandler less than 100 percent with flu
4:45 PM, April 27, 2012 ι By MARC BERMAN
ANTHONY J. CAUSI
MIAMI -- Whether it was gamesmanship or not, Knicks coach Mike Woodson said there was “a strong possibility’’ center Tyson Chandler could sit out Saturday’s Game 1 vs. the Heat with the flu.
Chandler was back at the team's hotel with the flu and fever and missed Friday’s practice. Chandler sat out Thursday night’s game vs. Charlotte and stayed back at the hotel.
Not having Chandler would be a devastating blow and it would seem difficult to imagine him not suiting up. But having him at less than 100 percent is a very likely scenario.
“We’re isolating him a bit from his teammates, so it doesn’t spread amongst the players,’’ Woodson said. “We’ll know more tomorrow. He didn’t eat much. We’re trying to keep fluids in him.’’
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/knicksblog/knicks_center_chand ler_less_than_6MG8ciCb29kNh52vWSSZCN#ixzz1tHKuZgFv
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| Re: NBA Playoffs news, notes, injuries etc... |
Tue, 01 May 2012 16:19 |
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You could seriously call illegal defense on many teams roughly about 33% of the time. This is a league wide problem. But, nothing wrong with George Karl pulling his best Phil Jackson.
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Wed, 02 May 2012 06:05 |
Marty Otto
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latimes.com/sports/la-sp-clippers-sidebar-20120502,0,1820072 .story
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Nick Young likely to start at Memphis in place of Caron Butler
With Butler injured, Young, who has started only three games since joining the Clippers in March, is expected to start on Wednesday. He had a team-high 19 points against the Grizzlies on Sunday.
By Baxter Holmes
4:40 PM PDT, May 1, 2012
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A three-lane street here separates the hotel where the Clippers are staying and the FedEx Forum where they're playing. Nick Young has made that short trek earlier than some of his teammates in the last two days. He's trying to get ready.
The Clippers guard is expected to start in place of injured starting small forward Caron Butler when his team plays Game 2 of its Western Conference first-round playoff series against the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday. The Clippers lead the series, 1-0.
Starting would be a different role for Young, who started just three games for the Clippers after coming to the team in a trade March 15. But he's has been effective off the bench for much of the regular season.
He was especially good on Sunday, when he scored a team-high 19 points and hit three consecutive three-point shots late in the fourth quarter to help his team complete an improbable 99-98 comeback win after trailing by as many as 27 points.
"He had a big role for us in Game 1 and he's going to have a bigger role now that Caron is out," Clippers Coach Vinny Del Negro said Tuesday.
Though Young is expected to start in place of Butler, who suffered a fractured left hand Sunday, it's not certain that Young will play the nearly 30 minutes per game Butler averaged during the regular season. Veteran forward Bobby Simmons might also play some small forward.
Still, Young is expected to start, giving the Clippers a three-guard lineup — along with Chris Paul and Randy Foye — that should be able to spread the floor.
"I'm just ready for whatever," Young said.
With Butler out and with starting shooting guard Chauncey Billups also sidelined by a season-ending torn left Achilles' tendon, the Clippers are without two of their most influential leaders.
"It's a huge challenge because Caron brings something to us, not just athletically and physically on the court, [but] just his personality and who he is," Chris Paul said. "He's definitely a strong force."
Butler scored 12 points in 23 minutes in Game 1 against Memphis, but his ability to guard the Grizzlies' leading scorer Rudy Gay is what made Butler especially valuable.
"We went to the same college [Connecticut] and I've been around him a lot so I know a lot of his tendencies," Butler said.
Butler wouldn't divulge what those tendencies are, but he said he's been schooling Young and Simmons on how to guard the 6-foot-8 Gay.
"Bobby has been watching a lot of film," Butler said. "He's prepared for this challenge. Nick is as well."
baxter.holmes@latimes.com
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| Re: NBA Playoffs news, notes, injuries etc... |
Wed, 02 May 2012 13:41 |
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I actually think Smith is one of the most underrated players in the NBA, of course that's when he's playing with an 85% effort or more. Like in the playoffs.
Smith (strained tendon) day-to-day
May, 2, 2012
By Chris Forsberg | ESPNBoston.com
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Josh Smith is day-to-day with a strained tendon in his left knee.
Atlanta's Josh Smith has a strained tendon in his left knee and his status is day-to-day, according to the Hawks.
ESPN.com's John Hollinger detailed Smith's ailment that forced him out of Tuesday's Game 2 loss to Boston in today's Daily Dime:
It appeared the knee had been bothering him for much of the fourth quarter, especially on a layup try at the 5:14 mark that he missed, but Smith may have aggravated whatever injury he had in a collision with Kevin Garnett just before he checked out. Television replays showed his knee giving a bit after Garnett bumped into him with 4:40 left, and 20 seconds later he was in the locker room and done for the night.
This one isn't in Rose-Shumpert territory -- Smith walked off the court and left the arena under his own power -- but even a lesser injury would likely eliminate Smith for the rest of this series, and that in turn would effectively end any threat Atlanta posed to the Celtics.
Certainly that was the case in this game, as an Atlanta side that floundered through much of the fourth went completely off the rails once Smith checked out.
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| Re: NBA Playoffs news, notes, injuries etc... |
Tue, 08 May 2012 13:47 |
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From Shumpert to Bibby... Wow, quite the defensive drop-off from the start of the series. Thank you Tyson Chandler, with a starting lineup of Carmelo, Amare and Bibby...
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