In any other year putting a cupcake with a lit candle on top of the rim, then blowing it out before dunking would have gotten an easy 50. Then taking your shoes off before doing a through the legs throwdown with only socks on would have gotten you the dunk contest title. In any other year, Gerald Green would have gone home with another dunk contest title.
Not this year however, as Dwight Howard took the contest to a whole new level, with a mix of creativity and and out of this world hops. He started off by hitting the ball off of the back of the backboard before windmilling it while his head was still out of bounds. He followed that up with an epic Superman throwdown, both of his first round dunks got a perfect score of 50. On his third dunk he threw the ball off of the backboard with his left hand before throwing it down with his right, then he finished it all off by grabbing a basketball laying on a small hoop attached to the backboard and throwing down a windmill.
After it was all said and done all five judges agreed that Dwight Howard was the clear winner, and the fans agreed giving the 6-11 center from Orlando the nod with 78% of the votes.
The Cleveland Cavaliers won 113-106 in 2OT against the Charlotte Bobcats on Friday, then 132-124 in OT against Memphis on Tuesday. Then tonight, in a finals rematch from the previous year, they were inches away from going into their fourth overtime in just three games.
Fortunately for them, Manu Ginobili who short great all night long (10-15 from the field, 4-6 from three point range, and 7-8 from the free throw line) missed the game tying shots in the final seconds, and the Cavs came away with a win. LeBron James led the Cavs scoring 27 points on 9-24 shooting and was helped out by Zydrunas Ilgauskas who had a strong performance with 17 points.
A van carrying members of the Bathurst High school’s boys’ basketball team collided with a transport truck killing seven players, and one adult early Saturday morning near Bathurst, New Brunswick in Canada.. They were only minutes away from returning home from their 220km road trip to meet up with their parents at a local fast food restaurant when the tragic accident occurred. The driver lost control of the van, likely as a result of the icy conditions along the road, just outside of city limits before colliding with an oncoming truck.
Photo: The Bathurst, N.B. crash victims are seen in these undated handout photos. Left to right, top to bottom, Nicholas Kelly, Cody Branch, Nickolas Quinn, Javier Aceveolo, Daniel Haines, Justin Cormier, Nathan Cleland. (Elhatton Funeral Home / THE CANADIAN PRESS) / Source
BATHURST, New Brunswick — A van carrying a Canadian high school boys’ basketball team collided with a truck Saturday, killing seven students on their way home from a game and the wife of the driver.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt. Derek Strong said the seven players, aged between 15 and 18, were pronounced dead at the crash site after their van crossed the center line and hit the tractor-trailer shortly after midnight.
The accident occurred on Highway 11 as the team was returning home to Bathurst from Moncton in Canada’s far eastern New Brunswick province, Strong said. Road conditions were said to be slippery.
Just wanted to alert everyone who resides near the New York area of the upcoming SNY invitational tournament. It will feature four of the top boys varsity basketball teams from the New York City area and will feature lots of great basketball and entertainment.
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Press Release
On February 1st-2nd of 2008, SNY, the television home of the New York Mets and Jets, will extend its reach into the high school sports arena by producing and televising the inaugural ‘SNY Invitational’ - an annual tournament that will become the supreme high school basketball tournament in the region. Sanctioned by the Public School Athletic League (PSAL), the 2008 ‘SNY Invitational’ will feature the following four boys’ varsity basketball teams from the New York City landscape: The Abraham Lincoln Railsplitters, Benjamin N. Cardozo Judges, John F. Kennedy Knights and the Frederick Douglass Lions. One of the represented teams - Abraham Lincoln High School - boasts NYC basketball phenom Lance Stephenson, dubbed “the king of high school basketball in New York City”.
Featured on-air talent for the ‘SNY Invitational’ include Gary Cohen, the renowned New York Mets and Seton Hall basketball play-by-play announcer, analyst and former L.A. Lakers guard John Celestand as well as roving reporter Kevin Burkhardt - the talented and popular field reporter on SNY’s Mets telecasts. The games will be produced by Gregg Picker, who also produces all of the Mets telecasts on SNY, and directed by Bill Webb, the current director for Mets games on SNY and World Series’ and MLB All-Star games on FOX.
The ‘SNY invitational’ will also showcase prominent entertainment acts including professional dance teams, live national anthem, drum lines, MCs and more - all of which will be announced at a later date. In addition, spectators can expect to meet numerous celebrities including former New York Mets pitcher Ron Darling and Mister Cee - a radio personality and current SNY contributor to Daily News Live.
Tickets will be available for purchase soon and as an added bonus every SNY Invitational ticket is good for a future NJ Nets ticket. For ticket information call 212-228-5558
For more information, visit www.snyinvitational.com
Schedule
FRIDAY, FEB. 1, 2008
Game 1: 6:00 pm ET
Lincoln High School vs. Cardozo High School
Game 2: 8:00 pm ET
Kennedy High School vs. Fredrick Douglass Academy
For the first time in over two and half decades, two teams are going back on the floor to redo the last minute of basketball. The 117-111 win that the Atlanta Hawks scraped together in overtime against the Miami Heat has been taken away until the two meet up again on March 8th in Atlanta to play out the last 51.9 seconds of the game.
The reason for this “redo” was because a foul given to Udonis Haslem with around 4 minutes left in the game was mistakenly assigned to Shaquille O’Neal, who later picked up his fifth foul with 51.9 seconds left but was considered fouled out because of the mistake. The Atlanta organization was also fined $50,000 for what David Stern called being “grossly negligent”.
Official Press Release
The NBA today granted a game protest filed by the Miami Heat after its 117-111 loss to the Atlanta Hawks on December 19 at Philips Arena, which will result in the replay of the final 51.9 seconds of the game’s overtime period with the Hawks leading 114-111. The replay will occur immediately prior to the next scheduled game between the two teams — on March 8, 2008, also at Philips Arena.
The Heat protested the game because, with 51.9 seconds remaining in overtime, the Hawks’ scoring table personnel incorrectly disqualified the Heat’s Shaquille O’Neal - asserting that a foul committed by O’Neal was his sixth foul of the game, when in fact it was only his fifth. The error occurred because the Hawks’ Official Scorer mistakenly attributed to O’Neal a foul at 3:24 remaining in the fourth period that was actually called against the Heat’s Udonis Haslem.
NBA Commissioner David Stern found that the Hawks were grossly negligent in committing this scoring error, since they failed to follow league-mandated scoring procedures and failed to respond effectively when the members of the statisticians’ crew noticed the mistake. Because of this conduct by Atlanta’s personnel, Miami suffered a clear competitive disadvantage, as O’Neal - the Heat’s second leading scorer and rebounder that night - was removed from a one-point game with only 51.9 seconds remaining. Under this unprecedented set of circumstances, the Commissioner granted the Heat’s protest, and fined the Hawks $50,000 for their violation of league rules.
The protest is the first granted by the NBA since December 14, 1982 when then-NBA Commissioner Larry O’Brien upheld a protest by the San Antonio Spurs concerning their 137-132 double overtime loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Nov. 30. The Spurs and Lakers finished the game on April 13 with San Antonio collecting a 117-114 win.
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