11/18/2008 - Los Angeles, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Roger Mason scored 21 points, including the go-ahead three-pointer with 8.4 seconds left in the game, to lead the streaking San Antonio Spurs in an 86-83 victory over the struggling Los Angeles Clippers.
Tim Duncan added 20 points, 15 rebounds and four assists for the Spurs, who have won a season-high three games in a row. Michael Finley had 19 points in the win.
Cuttino Mobley had 18 points for the Clippers, who have dropped three straight and nine of their 10 games this season. Chris Kaman chipped in 17 points and 13 boards in defeat. Baron Davis ended with 11 points and eight helpers.
A 9-2 Spurs run to open the fourth gave the visitors a 77-66 lead with just over 9 1/2 minutes remaining in the game. Duncan had four and Finley recorded five points on the run, while Eric Gordon's layup provided the only points for LA.
Still down 11 moments later, five points from the Davis's -- the first three from Ricky Davis and the next two from Baron Davis -- pulled the Clippers within six points, 81-75, with 5:50 showing on the scoreboard.
Mason dropped a jumper, but the Clippers poured in eight straight points to knot the contest up. Baron Davis hit a free throw to spark the surge, Kaman added two layups and Mobley drained a three to cap the 13-2 run with 1:04 showing on the clock.
Then, following a Mobley missed three, Duncan grabbed the rebound and the Spurs called a timeout.
On the inbounds, Mason took the ball and nailed a three from the top-right corner of the arc for an 86-83 San Antonio lead with 8.4 ticks left to play.
"Coach (Gregg Popovich) drew the play for me, I got it and wanted to make the best of it," said Mason. "Coach told me to take my time and when Ricky (Davis) backed off I drilled it."
For the final play of the game, Baron Davis took the inbounds pass, dribbled around just inside the half court line, passed to Ricky Davis, who kicked it right back to Baron Davis on the right wing.
"We're not getting good looks. I thought San Antonio spaced the floor well and got good looks," said Baron Davis. "We can do better offensively, we have to find a way to get better looks."
His desperation, off-balance three-pointer caromed off the glass as time expired to give the Spurs their ninth straight victory over the Clippers.
The Clippers jumped out to a 23-21 leaed after the first quarter. However, the Spurs took the lead, 43-38, at the break.
Mobley's layup brought the Clippers within four points, but Finley nailed a three-pointer and Duncan netted a jumper to give San Antonio a 58-49 lead with 4:50 left in the third.
The Spurs led by as many as 10 points in the third, but an 8-2 LA run to close out the stanza pulled the home team within 68-64 heading into the fourth. Mike Taylor accounted for six of the points, including a last-second shot.
Game Notes
LA shot 3-of-16 from three-point range, while the Spurs were 8-of-20 from behind the arc...The Spurs improved to 3-2 away from home this season and reached the .500 mark for the first time this season (5-5)...San Antonio has won 17 of 18, 19 of 21 and 22 of the past 25 matchups against the Clippers. It has also won five in a row as the guest in this series.
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Trash talk has a place in every competitive endeavor (except baseball; those stirrup-wearers are too busy chewing on their sunflower seeds and their “supplements” to worry about what their opponents are doing).
Fantasy sports is no exception. Any intelligent discussion of the subject would probably start with a thesis statement or a definition of terms. Thankfully, this won’t be an intelligent discussion.
Let me just say that I am happy to take a place in this space alongside my talented colleagues, even our commissioner. (You should see how she bleats like a demented paper boy about league fees on our fantasy site).
Trash talking, I would argue, is primarily about amusing your friends, their sheeplike demeanors and sloping foreheads notwithstanding. The best place I have found for football trash talking is at www.SportsAlarm.com.
Beyond the entertainment factor, though, I would recognize that the sophomoric ritual has one advantage, when properly applied. It magnifies your fantasy triumphs and mitigates your fantasy failures by transforming the eventual point total into an afterthought. Winning makes it seem like your opponent really is a “truss-owning, lapel-pin-wearing nitwit.” And in defeat, trash talk can be the air bag to break the fall from your hyperbolic heights. “The plug-necked yahoos on your team,” you can say, “will be sacking groceries by the end of the season.”
The best trash talk, in my view, is layered and nuanced. And it doesn’t focus only on your opponent’s team. It picks apart your opponent. The idea is to create a shock-and-awe-scale blizzard of nonsense, and the goal is to make your opponent drop his hands from his keyboard in exasperation.
What team does your opponent root for? Accuse a Giants fan of having a Joe Namath pillowcase. Where’s your opponent from? Give a look of concern no matter his reply, then say, “I’ll try to type slower for you next time.” Is your opponent into politics? Label everyone a tax-and-spend corporate shill.
Cap all that with a liberal application of irrelevance. For instance, don’t just conclude by saying your opponent is a “twerp who drafts like my grandmother.” Say that your opponent is a “sweater-wearing, eyebrow-plucking twerp who drafts his team about as well as Zsa Zsa Gabor gave acceptance speeches at the Oscars.” By the time your foe makes sense of that, his starting running back will have had puppies.
But what about you? Hmm? Recall a memorable slam? Have a tried-and-true technique? Know someone who seems impervious to insult? Take a moment and tells us about it. Put together some (fit-for-publication) thoughts. You won’t be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, I’m sure, to reply.
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Mayweather picked to beat De La Hoya
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- Golden Boy Oscar De La Hoya and his rival Floyd Mayweather Jr. arrived at the MGM Grand here Wednesday amid the pomp and pandemonium befitting two of the biggest stars in the sport who are about to duke it out for the WBC super welterweight crown this Saturday (Sunday in Manila).
As of Wednesday, MySportsbook.com closed its book with Mayweather a favorite to defeat De La Hoya at -170 (a $100 bet wins $70), while De La Hoya is a +140 underdog (a $100 bet wins $140).
Mayweather arrived at about 11:30 a.m. on a big truck with his face and a big "World's Best Pound-for-Pound" sign scribbled across the vehicle. He was accompanied by his entourage made up of rappers and his training team.
A crowd of close to 3,000 eager fans packed the MGM Grand lobby, with their cameras in tow, all trying to vie for position to get a good angle at Mayweather, who is acknowledged as the world's best fighter pound-for-pound.
Eric Gomez, Golden Boy Promotions vice-president, described the fan turnout as "amazing" and swore he had never seen anything quite like this event.
"The crowd was fantastic. Everybody was just too eager to see the two fighters," said ALA manager Michael Aldeguer, who was among those who waited at the lobby together with his ward Rey "Boom Boom" Bautista and AJ Banal.
De La Hoya made his own grand entrance at the hotel lobby at around 12:30 p.m. accompanied by GBP chief executive officer Richard Schaefer and trainer Freddie Roach.
The same group of fans who trooped to see Mayweather also lingered around to get a close look at De La Hoya, who has been secretly working out at a Las Vegas gym for days after arriving from his main training camp in Puerto Rico.
The golden boy then took part in a closed-door afternoon workout with Bautista and Banal. The two, along with Aldeguer and wife Christine, as well as an HBO crew were the only ones allowed inside the gym.
De La Hoya and Mayweather take part in today's final press conference before the official weigh-in this Friday.
Ring Magazine, the acknowledged bible of boxing, reported in its June 2007 issue that 12 out of 20 boxing experts it interviewed have favored Mayweather to defeat De la Hoya, with only 8 favoring the latter.
But Filipino ring icon Manny Pacquiao said in a recent interview with The Freeman's Emmanuel Villaruel that De La Hoya will win by unanimous decision over Mayweather.
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