James, Durant exceeding hype through first two games
Washington P
Oklahoma City's scoring champion appeared to get fouled by the NBA MVP on his final shot attempt, but the Thunder's problems in Game 2 began long before. Let's get a few things straight before we get into this analysis of Kevin Durant's missed game-tying shot attempt in the Oklahoma City Thunder's 100-96 loss to the [...]
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Boston Heral
One of the players tasked with the chore of attempting to quiet Kevin Durant in the NBA Finals is veteran stopper Shane Battier. Battier admitted this week in an interview, however, that it takes more than conventional means to OKLAHOMA CITY — The assumption, amid all the pre-game fist bumps and all those off-season charity [...]
Read MoreJames, Durant exceeding hype through first two games
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From the blog Ball Don't Lie: As we learned during last summer's lockout, there's a division in the NBA between big market and small market franchises. Kevin Durant has scored 33 points on 11-of-19 shooting in this year's NBA Finals. I should clarify: He's done that in the fourth quarter alone. Thursday night his fourth [...]
Read MoreJames, Durant exceeding hype through first two games
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Kevin. Durant. He's battled foul trouble all night, but he made his first seven shots of the second half to spark an OKC rally. Tweet · Manny Pacquaio and Floyd Mayweather Finally Fight (in Stop Motion) · Justin Tuck's New Foul, what foul? What some observers thought they witnessed in the closing seconds on Thursday [...]
Read MoreYes, Kevin Durant was fouled — but one call didn't decide Game 2 …
CNN
Would you trade the Big Three era for possibly a decade's worth of Kevin Durant in green? Thursday night's game in the NBA Finals was very, very good. Unfortunately controversy surrounds the endingbecause, perhaps correctly, there are quite a few people that believe Kevin Durant was fouled by LeBron James OKLAHOMA CITY — Kevin Durant [...]
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CNN
Mike Tyson is starring in a video tribute to Oklahoma City star Kevin Durant, as reported by SportsGrid.com. The tribute is a sequel to a video Tyson made earlier Kevin Durant's High School Coach Wishes He'd Told Him To Shoot More: Coach Stu Vetter has had his share of stars at Rockville, The Oklahoma City [...]
Read MoreYes, Kevin Durant was fouled — but one call didn't decide Game 2 …
CNN
Let's start here: LeBron James fouled Kevin Durant on a potential game-tying shot with 10 seconds left in Game 2 of the NBA Finals on Thursday. (See the play at 1:25 in the above video.) In reviewing key sections of the rule Let's start here: LeBron James fouled Kevin Durant on a potential game-tying shot [...]
Read MoreYes, Kevin Durant was fouled — but one call didn't decide Game 2 …
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Kevin. Durant. He's battled foul trouble all night, but he made his first seven shots of the second half to spark an OKC rally. Tweet · Kevin Durant's Dunk on Shane Battier Was a Thing of Beauty · Nick Watney's Albatross on Mike Tyson is starring in a video tribute to Oklahoma City star Kevin [...]
Read MoreMike Miller's Heat tenure marred by injury
Tucson Citiz
11, 2012, under USA Today Sports When Mike Miller fell to the court during Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Indiana Pacers, he certainly didn't spring to an upright position. Slowly, deliberately, he pushed himself up. A year after watching someone else celebrate on their home floor, the Miami Heat and Mitchell [...]
Read MorePaul Pierce wants Kevin Garnett return in Boston
SI.com
A disappointed Kevin Garnett admitted that the Celtics might have been too excited for their chance to close out the Heat in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals Thursday night at TD Garden. The result was an unforeseen By Ron Borges For all the talk about what Rajon Rondo [stats] didn't do in Game [...]
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