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[New York Times] Not Much Peace and Friendship as Olympiakos Punished (Wed, 04 Dec 2013 12:46:04 GMT) Holders Olympiakos Piraeus have been ordered to play their next Euroleague basketball home game behind closed doors following crowd trouble in Thursday’s 72-54 win over Turkish rivals Galatasaray.     [New York Times] Warriors Rally From 27 Down to Top Raptors 112-103 (Wed, 04 Dec 2013 06:18:51 GMT) Klay Thompson made four 3-pointers in the fourth quarter to fuel an improbable comeback, Stephen Curry added a pair of shots from beyond the arc down the stretch and the Golden State Warriors rallied from 27 points …continue reading

New Orleans Pelicans 103 Final Recap | Box Score 99 New York Knicks Kenyon Martin, PF 17 MIN | 0-2 FG | 0-0 FT | 3 REB | 2 AST | 3 STL | 3 BLK | 1 TO | 0 PTS | -10 Hell of an effort, old man! Way to bang with that dude with the unibrow! You know, Id have done the same thing on those Anderson threes – guy’s gotta miss sooner or later! With that weird ass hair patch thing he has going on? Shake it off, K-Mart. You’ve been around a long time and …continue reading

Not like we were overly optimistic to begin with, but the Knicks will be rolling in the Gitmo orange uni’s tonight: No. 18 @BenoUdrih1 in orange tonight versus @PelicansNBA pic.twitter.com/ZgmK5J7ySH — NY_KnicksPR (@NY_KnicksPR) December 1, 2013 That’s just swell. For a bit of info on tonight’s winning team opponent, let’s hear from Joe Gerrity of the TrueHoop New Orleans Pelicans blog, Bourbonstreetshots. Much was made of the Pellies’ off season moves — trading Noel for Jrue, spending big bucks on Tyreke. How’s it working out so far? It’s a vague answer, but so far it’s going OK. It’s not yet …continue reading

New York Knicks 95 Final Recap | Box Score 97 Denver Nuggets Melo is/was right: we are in a dark place. This is exhausting. I don’t know about you, but I’m just tired of writing the same dumb things about a dumb team that fails in painfully repetitive, dumb ways. All of it so very Beckett-like (if the man had ever heard of or deigned to root for a team, this one would nestle in the cockles of his heart). Unnamable, yet totally familiar. So yes, again there aren’t any individual grades tonight. The same small group of ‘Bockers (more …continue reading