Friday, February 25, 2011

Top 2 NBA East Teams Fail

After a interesting day of trades occurring by the NBA trade deadline, the top 2 teams in the Eastern Conference, the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat failed to deliver as they both lost Thursday night.

Miami/Chicago
With a possible match-up game for the playoffs the Miami Heat went into Chicago hoping to take down the Chicago Bulls after watching all of the changes that were happening around them in the league.  Even with Lebron James scoring 29 points (10 rebounds) and Dwyane Wade scoring 34 points the Heat were still unable to hold on falling to the Bulls 93-89.  Bosh had no contribution going 1-18 for the night and only scoring 7 points.  Rose had 26 points and Deng had 20 in the victory over the heats.  The game came down to the very last seconds as the Heat was down by 3 with 0:36.8 seconds left in the game and James were fouled while making a jump shot, making his free throw the game was now tied at 89.  Deng then went down and scored a 3 pointer with 16 seconds left in the game, putting the Bulls back up by 3.  James followed Deng with a 3 point attempted but and the Heat were forced to foul Korver who made one of his free throws putting the Bulls over the Heat 93-89.  The Heat bounced back tonight with a terrific game by Wade with 41 points in the 121-113 victory over the Wizards.  James also had 25 points and 9 rebounds in the win over the Wizards.  Chicago's next game is tomorrow against the Milwaukee Bucks.
AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast


Boston/Denver
With both Denver and Boston have new looks on their team after Nuggets traded Anthony to the Knicks and the Celtics traded Perkins and Robinson to the Thunder.  The Nuggets topped the number one team (Celtics) in the East 89-75.  Pierce had 17 points in the defeat and Garnett had 14 points and 13 rebounds.  Martin led the Nuggets in scoring with 18 points followed by Wilson Chandler, whom the Nuggets got in the trade for Anthony, with 16 points.  The Nuggets are currently playing against the Portland Trailblazers and the Celtics next game is Saturday against the LA Clippers.
(AP Photo/Joe Mahoney)


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