Line of the Night (11/3): Dirk Nowitzki
scoresreport.com 19 days ago — Dirk Nowitzki scored 29 points in the fourth quarter — you read that right — to give the Mavs a 96-85 win over the Utah Jazz. He posted 40 points, 11 rebounds, five assists, five blocks and two steals. He shot 12 of 22 from the field and 15 of 16 from the charity stripe. The Mavs ...

What a Difference a Night Makes...
thehoopsforum.com 17 days ago — On Tuesday night Dallas forward Dirk Nowitzki had a 4th quarter for the ages leading his team to a comeback victory at home against the Utah Jazz. A day later he fouls out scoring just 12 points on 4-15 shooting in an overtime loss to the New Orleans Pauls. Despite this stink bomb, Dirk Nowitzki ...

DIRK POPS OFF 29 IN ONE QUARTER
withleather.uproxx.com 18 days ago — Dallas Mavericks big man Dirk Nowitzki is a rampaging beast! No, really, look at that ugly dude. He looks like a sasquatch after a body wax and Atkins. But the Abominable Dirkman found his groove in the fourth quarter against the Jazz, dropping 29 ...

Dirk Catches Fire!
ltsports.net 18 days ago — Everyone could put the ” Dirk Nowitzki is too old ” talks to rest…at least for now. Last night, Nowitzki exploded for 40 points against the Utah Jazz, including a franchise-record 29 points in the 4th quarter. In the 4th, Nowitzki went 7-8 from the field and a perfect 14-14 ...

Sixers No Contest for Celtics
sportsofboston.com 19 days ago — Cue the Sergio Leone score for this one. The good : the Celtics move to 5-0 on the season, breezing to a 105-74 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday night at the Wachovia Center. The bad : two of the Big Three looked lost. Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen shot a combined 3-15, missed ...

'Sheed is Perfect for This Team!
redsarmy.com 19 days ago — If you didn't realize it during the offseason, preseason or during the first four games of the regular season, I hope you realize it know - Rasheed Wallace is a perfect fit for this Celtics team. Here's his line in tonight's 105 - 74 blowout win over Philly: 24 minutes, 20 points, 7-10 FG, ...

We All Nowitnessed Last Night
angrytrey.blogspot.com 19 days ago — What a game from Dirk Nowitzki last night! Not only did the Big German drop 40 points, 29 of them in the 4 th quarter. Dirk also added 11 rebounds, 5 assists, 5 blocks, and 2 steals. If that isn’t a dominating stat line then I don’t know what is. The Mavs went on to down the Jazz 96-85 ...

A Third Dose of the Dime
slamonline.com 15 days ago — by Doobie Okon It’s always interesting to see which players are prime to permanently stamp their names in the NBA history book. Often, the great ones in this league begin their careers with two or three solid years before breaking out one season ...

Like Christmas Morning for a Hoops Geek
celticshub.com 13 days ago — I logged onto 82games.com over the weekend to look up something about last year’s Celtics, and there it was for the first time: The 82games.com stats for the first two weeks of the 2009-10 season!! I swear I was almost as excited for this as I ...

A Brief History Of Luxury Tax
shamsports.com 21 days ago — The NBA's luxury tax first came into existence in 2001, the year in which the league's funky new escrow system debuted. The escrow system, in layman's terms, is a system that withholds a certain amount of player's salaries and puts it into a separate account until the end of the following ...

Suns stay unbeaten, run past Heat 104-96 — Examiner Sports 19 days ago
Steve Nash scored 30 points and added eight assists, and the Phoenix Suns used a dominant fourth quarter to beat the Miami Heat 104-96 in a matchup of NBA unbeatens Tuesday night.

Dirk Nowitzki scores 29 in fourth to lift Mavericks — L.A. Times - Basketball 19 days ago
He finishes with 40 points in a 96-85 win over Utah. > at Dallas 96, Utah 85: Dirk Nowitzki scored a club-record 29 of his 40 points during a frantic fourth-quarter comeback to ...

NBA ROUNDUP / Nowitzki has 29 points in 4th quarter to lift Mavs — SFGate: Top Sports Stories 19 days ago
Dirk Nowitzki scored a club-record 29 of his 40 points during a frantic fourth-quarter comeback and the Mavericks beat Utah 96-85 in Dallas on Tuesday night. Nowitzki broke the franchise record of 24 points in any quarter set by Mark Aguirre against ...

Sports shorts — NY Post: Sports 19 days ago
NBA: Celtics, Nuggets stay unbeaten In Philadelphia, Paul Pierce scored 21 points, Rasheed Wallace had 20 and the Celtics (5-0) remained unbeaten with a 105-74 victory over the 76ers. . . . In Indianapolis, Carmelo Anthony scored 25 points and Chau...

Week 1 Eastern Conference Power Rankings — Bleacher Report - NBA 19 days ago
We're through a week of the season, but already strengths, weaknesses and major problems are being exposed. This year is going to be a fun one to follow (Records included up to 11/4/09). The Celtics are the Celtics, the Cavaliers finally have a real ...