Weekend Rewind

Pretty exciting weekend in the NBA, so that's what I'll start with.  Mainly two games featuring top 6 teams in the Association and two game winners by All-Star point guards.

Toronto v Cleveland

The Raptors continued closing the gap on the Cavs with a 99-97 win over Cleveland in the Air Canada Centre.  How'd they win?  Well Kyle Lowry hit a loooong two with 3.8 seconds left giving him a career high 43 points and more importantly his team the win.

  LeBron had a chance to win it and then this happened:

Oh siiiiiiick!  Best player in the game!  All hail King James!  I get infinite amounts of joy from that clip.

Oh.  Sorry Bron Bron.  Guess you kinda suck after all.

Anyway, the Cavs followed up this game by losing by 14 to the 28-30 Wizards on Sunday.  Toronto though lost in Detroit, so they remain two games behind Cleveland for first in the East.  The Cavs are 41-17 and Toronto is 39-19.

Golden State v Oklahoma City

Aka the highlight of the weekend.  It was an all time classic game that saw the Warriors come back and force overtime, (KD fouled out in the first minute of OT) and Stephen Curry have an ankle injury come back and tie the single game 3 point record of 12 makes, and hit a 38 foot game winner.  But before OT Klay Thompson went for the quick two after KD put OKC up 4 with a 3.  Then they trapped KD on the inbound and he threw it away and Andre Iguodala was fouled by Durant.  Iggy is not a great free throw shooter, but he knocked down both free throws to tie the game.  Then both teams battled and only this prevented double OT:

for the full effect:



and just because KD was awesome too with 37 and it was a great game:


So Steph finished with 46, including 12 threes.  It was unbelievable.  Don't forget he had that ankle injury in the 3rd quarter too.  He didn't practice today because of it and might miss tomorrows game vs the Hawks.  He's the best.  Maybe even better than the game itself was Magic Johnson's post-game analysis:

Brilliant, Magic.  Absolutely brilliant.

In other news:

Well in the NCAA hoops world, Carolina lost to UVA, Duke got their dicks kicked in by PITT (hahaha), Wisconsin keeps on winning beating Michigan last night.  Michigan State stays hot by beating Penn State.  Xavier followed up beating number 1 Villanova by losing to Seton Hall.  And Iowa lost AGAIN, this time to Ohio State.  Oh, and Oklahoma lost to Texas.  So college basketball remains a mess, and tomorrow starts the best month of the year! (March, March is the best.  Because of March Madness.)  The combine happened, but I really don't care about that, the NFL draft is brutal tv.  So are drafts in general but the NFL draft is literally 4 days, its too much.  But it is basketball's time now so I hope you're all enjoying it.

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