TIME: 07:00 P.M. ESTVENUE: Air Canada Centre The Toronto Raptors have a 10th opportunity this season to win back-to-back home games for the first time since 2010. Even a visit from the league-worst Charlotte Bobcats is no guarantee the Raptors can finally accomplish that feat. Toronto looks to avoid a seventh consecutive loss in this [...]
TIME: 10:30 P.M. ESTVENUE: STAPLES Center The Los Angeles Lakers seem to have survived what could have been a crushing blow to their championship aspirations with center Andrew Bynum having avoided serious injury. The New Jersey Nets havent been able to rely on their star big man much at all this season, but theyve proved [...]
Online wire reportsApril 2, 2012 LOS ANGELES — Kobe Bryant needed 11 seconds to make his first basket, then he hit his second and a few minutes later another. No way was the Los Angeles Lakers superstar going to struggle for a second successive game. Bryant finished with 40 points — his fifth such game [...]
Online wire reportsApril 2, 2012 PORTLAND, Ore. — LaMarcus Aldridge will keep the words he had with Minnesotas Kevin Love to himself. The two All-Stars jawed at times on Sunday night, when both scored 26 points but Aldridges Trail Blazers came out on top, 119-106. “It was just two guys going hard,” the diplomatic Aldridge [...]
TIME: 10:00 P.M. ESTVENUE: Rose Garden The Utah Jazz would like to avoid matching their longest losing streak of the season. Avoiding that fate could also give them a share of the final playoff position in the Western Conference. The Portland Trail Blazers would just like to win back-to-back games for the first time in [...]
Online wire reportsApril 2, 2012 LOS ANGELES — Kobe Bryant needed 11 seconds to make his first basket, then he hit his second and a few minutes later another. No way was the Los Angeles Lakers superstar going to struggle for a second successive game. Bryant finished with 40 points — his fifth such game [...]