Smack / Feb 20, 2012 / 2:21 am

Linsanity Overwhelms The Defending NBA Champions; Durant Drops 51 On Denver

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Kevin Durant & Russell Westbrook

Kevin Durant & Russell Westbrook (photo. Rob Hammer)

Kevin Durant did his best to climb out from under the shadow of Linsanity and LeBron, dropping a career-high 51 points (19-28 FG) to go with eight rebounds and four steals against Denver … Al Harrington hit back-to-back threes to put the Nuggets up nine in the fourth quarter, but Durant and Russell Westbrook (40 pts, 9 asts) wouldn’t let their team lose that easy. The margin was still five before Durant calmly drained a trey with 30 seconds to go, and after getting a huge defensive stop, OKC got the ball back with seven seconds left. Naturally they went to Durant, who separated from Arron Afflalo (27 pts, 7 rebs, 5 asts) thanks to a Serge Ibaka screen, then skated past Birdman Andersen for a surprisingly easy dunk … Westbrook gave OKC a four-point lead with 26 seconds remaining in OT with another mid-range J, and on the other end Ibaka (14 pts, 15 rebs, 11 blks) rejected Afflalo at the rim to effectively end it …
Isaiah Thomas won the battle in Cleveland, but Kyrie Irving won the war. Having recently earned his way into Sacramento’s starting five, Isaiah made it clear before the game that as the last pick of the 2011 NBA Draft, he had drawn a bulls-eye on Irving, the first pick. Thomas finished with 23 points, eight rebounds and 11 assists versus Irving’s 23 points, three boards and one dime, but Irving stole the show at the end …
After DeMarcus Cousins gave the Kings a one-point lead with 2.9 seconds left on a swooping reverse layup that looked exactly like Jerry Stackhouse’s famous dunk against Duke – except Cousins only got about three inches off the ground and he didn’t touch the rim – everyone knew Irving would be getting the rock. But before he could make a highlight, Tyreke Evans inexplicably fouled him trying to go for a steal with 0.4 on the clock. Mark that down as Bonehead Play No. 3,042 for the Kings this season. Irving stepped to the free-throw line and buried both shots to win the game … The other heroic free throws of the day belonged to Kevin Love. The Wolves were down one to the Sixers with three seconds left when Love (20 pts, 15 rebs) got the inbound pass outside the arc, lumbered his way to the hoop and had his shot spiked by Elton Brand. Great defensive play, only the refs called a foul and sent Love to the line with one-tenth of a second to go. Love made both and Minnesota stole a W … Other stat lines from Sunday: Kyle Lowry had 32 points, 9 dimes and 7 threes as Houston beat Utah; Roy Hibbert put up 18 points and 14 rebounds to lead Indiana past Charlotte; Ersan Ilyasova beasted the Nets for 29 points and 25 boards (13 offensive) in a Milwaukee road win; Greg Monroe’s 17 points and 10 boards helped Detroit knock off Boston; and Marcin Gortat posted 21 points and 15 boards as Phoenix upset the Lakers, while Kobe Bryant had 32 points, 7 boards, 5 assists and 10 turnovers … We’re out like Landry Fields jerseys.

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  • sh!tfaced

    let’s go smack…. come on… i’m foaming at the mouth here… lol

  • sh!tfaced

    that’s what melo gets doing a pussy move… deciding to comeback vs the nets and sit it out on the mavs, like f & f said… can’t wait for tomorrow’s paper…

    beibitch… make that hoe wear a melo jersey

  • sh!tfaced

    oh wait? you have an electronic slapper or something? do you do it on your wheelchair or do you just lie down and let her work?

  • http://datpiff.com beiber newz

    hehe. shitinface, did my words really stick with you on your mind like that? i must really be the guy that guys want to see suffer. well, book it, the nets won the championship tonite. all other teams can go home. the season is over, melo lost in his 1st game off an injury, the nets killed the knicks season. lol

    and big island, in all honesty, you had me cracking up throughout your post, i hate to admit it..but it cheered me up a notch after this loss. you know the times when u mad, and you don’t want ppl making u laff? that’s what was happenin as i was reading your comment.

  • http://datpiff.com beiber newz

    and when i look at it, i truthfully think it’s actually a great thing the knicks lost this game.

    after lin’s first loss, ppl wanted to cave in on lin and start their shit talk, i feel like i killed it a bit by saying i culdnt see the rest of the truth come out.

    now, after this loss, i reeaaally wanna see what guys have to say. i want guys who hate to say evrrything they can about the loss, about melo. etc. i want all of it to come out in smack. that way the truth is out, all the shit ppl were holding in, now is their chance to say it.

    when i see all, it’ll be there for all time. and there will be a time when i can look back at that page to see how accurate guys were, how right, and how wrong. i want guys to say the truth on their minds so that a month from now, i can pull it out in a future smack, and say “remember when you said this so n so? ”

    the nex smack should be awesome. for me at least…….yall know how i do with memory.

  • http://datpiff.com beiber newz

    also, i like how ppl say they are foaming at the mouth, but had the knicks won, they’d pretend like it didn’t matter to them. the new knicks era with melo has begun, and the shit talk will be reinvented for the 2nd half of the season. shud b fun.

  • http://www.bettlejuiceXs3.com Chicagorilla

    @Fnf, Big Is, and Sh!tfaced

    I’m over here laughing so hard i had to explain myself to the family because of those comments.

    Too bad the Bulls didn’t lose or look really bad with Rose coming back. Then BNews would be able to use that as a measuring stick. Instead Rose came back, dropped 20+pts, and they blew out one of the better teams in the east. hahaha. Rose did look kinda rusty though when it came to his dribbling, passing, and bball IQ.

  • http://datpiff.com beiber newz

    hehe…i think he’s the only one who cares bout the bulls. farthest team from my mind, only reason i think of the bulls is cuz rose is on my fantasy team. i thought he forgot i existed though. hm. guess there is a temporary cease on that cuz the knicks lose a game. interesting. lol.

  • http://www.bettlejuiceXs3.com Chicagorilla

    @my last post (#107)

    So Im watching the game on DvR. At the time the Bulls were up by 20pts. Now the lead has shrunk to 10pts. So i had to double back and make sure we even won the game in the first place or that last post would make me look like….well a Republican candidate. a.k.a. and idiot.

    Turns out we won by 11pts. Not quite a blow out but good enough.

  • http://www.bettlejuiceXs3.com Chicagorilla

    @BNews,

    Cocaine is a helluva drug…

  • http://datpiff.com beiber newz

    you know, it’d be interesting to see guys try to connect the loss solely to carmelo. i forgot to mention that. even though far more things went into that loss, i want to see the creativity of the haters. lol

  • EN FUEGO

    HAHAHAHAHA

    Look out! Somebody’s gonna get raped tonight… Bloody and brutal, I hope.
    Better say your prayers and do more than your usual Meth.

    This gangbang is happening and it’s no holes barred.

    Remember my last post, my schizophrenic friend?
    “if (melo) blows it, nothing wont matter for u. ever. your street cred will be lower than the real justin bieber.”

    You’ll be known as “Hasselhoff Newz” by the time your done.

  • EN FUEGO

    Connect the loss to Melo? That’s it?

    THEY F*CKIN’ LOST TO THE GODDAMN NETS!!!

    And it wasn’t even close.

    - The Knicks beat the NBA Champs without Melo and lost to the Nets WITH Melo.

    - They were at home, so unless they all slept on a couch last night, the back-to-back don’t count.

    - Plus, the Nets were also coming off a back-to-back.

    No need to be creative. Those are the facts. And they are at your face together with all that cum.

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