Noteworthy: 12/19/2013

Only 2 games tonight.  A yawner win by the only undefeated team at home this season and a surprise road win by a team playing the six through nine guys in their rotation.

First that yawner game where Reggie Jackson showed off his shiftniness and the Thunder led the whole way in beating the short-handed Bulls.



Then the Spurs won at Golden State behind a solid game from Marco Bellinelli and a whole lot of Boris Diaw making plays in the last two minutes.

  First, Boris blocked Stephen Curry on a fast break attempt.

Then a Diaw Dunk.  So basically in a matter of a minute, Boris Diaw stopped the best player on the other team and then put the Spurs up three off a nice give-and-go with the Tiago Splitter.

Splitter ends up making the biggest and most controversial play of the night, tipping in the game-winning basket after this scramble underneath the basket

Other: Chris Paul tweeted a picture of his "grandfather" for #TBT...

Video: Roy Hibbert Makes Jokes About Hairlines Before Game Versus Heat

At first, he was just video-bombing,
But then Roy tossed out a very decent Stephen A zing.

"Hows my hairline compared to..." asks Stephen A
Spoiler: Roy basically says "better than the King's"

Video: Celtics Announcer Calls For Best Inbounds Play Ever And Then A Pretty Good One Happens

Bring the legendary Tommy Heinsohn with you to Vegas cause his predictions skills seem to be in mid-season form.

Color me shocked because the person making Heinsohn's prediction come true was the most  unsuspecting of alley ooper finishers.

Noteworthy: 12/18/2013

Way to Go:
Similarly good games by Lebron (24-9-7) and Paul George (28-8-6), although Lebron's team got the win - tieing the season series up at 1-1.

Also, don't know about the title of this video being accurate cause I don't think Luis Scola was fooled by Lebron;  more like caught flat-footed and not as athletic so he looked fooled when Lebron punched the accelerator on the way to the basket.



Career high for Trey Burke as he thoroughly outplayed his fellow rookie of the year candidate, Victor Oladipo, by recording 30 points and a solid 8 rebounds and 7 assists as the Jazz win in Orlando.

Deandre Jordan is this year's rebounding leader and he looked like it with his 20 boards tonight.  Plus he had 5 blocks and didn't turn the ball over once.

Lots of Threes
Kyle Korver had 2 more threes than the Kings had as a whole, as the Hawks won by 17.  With the way Korver's shooting, that consecutive games with a three-pointer record (94) might continue for a little while.

JR Smith took 17 threes (and made 5 of them) in the double overtime win against the Bucks.  Here's an awesome graphic from Matt Moore of CBS Sports in case you weren't sure what 5 for 17 from beyond the arc looks like.

You're Too Far away, JoJo



Silly:  Knicks won but gave the Bucks a golden opportunity when Bargnani took this three-pointer despite being up 2 in overtime and a full shot clock in their favor.

Didn't See These Ones Coming:

Someone on the Grizzlies had 10 offensive rebounds last night.  Not Rebounder lover Zach Randolph or Marc Gasol cause he's still injured.  It was Tony,who hasn't even had more than 7 rebounds the whole season, Allen.

In his first game back, Tyreke Evans registered a triple double with 11-13-10, but the Pelicans were beat pretty handedly by the Clipps so it wasn't the most impactful of triple dubbz.

Unsuspecting
I think Nic Batum is going to be careful about his defensive stance now that he's become another victim of Rubio's nutmeg pass.




Other: Even in a loss to the T'Wolves tonight, Damian Lillard was able to make the crowd ohh&aww after he banked a half court shot after the buzzer...Paul George gettin' his flop tonight dissected