youtube.com - 1/5/2009
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Highlights from the final minute of the Washington Wizards and Cleveland Cavaliers game at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. on January 4, 2009. The Wiz...
voices.washingtonpost.com - 1/5/2009
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
Dear David Stern, Could you kindly cancel all
those upcoming Wiz games against teams from Florida and...
other random Southern outposts, and just have them play Cleveland every game? I mean, I'm all for schedule integrity, but today's meaningless (for ...
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LeBron, DeShawn and the Travel
slamdunkcentral.com - 1/4/2009
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slamdunkcentral.com —
During the 11 years that I was blessed
to be a radio reporter in Cleveland from 1995...
through 2006, the only times that I was not thoroughly pumped about covering a Cavaliers game was on those rare Sunday matinee games. Sunday afternoon the Cleveland Cavaliers appeared to be feeling like I used......
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Wizards Put Evil Spell On Cavaliers Win 80-77
cleveland.com - 1/5/2009
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cleveland.com —
Associated PressLeBron James and Antawn Jamison react after
James was called for traveling in the closing seconds...
of the Wizards' 80-77 win over the CavaliersPhoto gallery | Box score | Game reset Brown gets ejection to inject life Brian Windhorst's...
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Cavs walk away with loss
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Word of the Day: walk the dog
Basketbawful —
walk the dog (wok thuh dahg) phrase. The polar opposite of satelliting, where a player -- in concert with the inbounder -- tries to save as much time as possible in moving the ball downcourt by letting the inbounder roll or bounce the ball into play while they guard the ball without touching it and therefore starting the clock. Usage example: Rajon Rondo walks the dog more than any other player in the league. Steve Nash probably comes in second. Word history: The word was coined by Basketbawful reader Manamongst Hussein in an email to me quite some time ago. I just didn't the proper videographic example. Until ...
NBA Continuation
JoeSportsFan.com —
WizardsBullets 7-26
A question for the hoopsters among you: How many times have you played pick-up ball, and someone is driving to the hole, gets fouled, takes like four steps, makes the bucket, and yells out, “NBA continuation baby”?
It happens often, because there is a distinct culture of traveling and carrying the ball in today’s NBA. Discussion of the NBA’s walk-a-thon hit the airwaves on Sunday after LeBron James was called for traveling (watch it here at about the 1:25 mark) as he drove for what would have been the tying bucket against the Washington Bullets.
The Bullets won and ...
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Cavaliers 80, Wizards 77 —
NYT > Pro Basketball 1/5/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- LeBron James was called for traveling while driving for the potential tying basket with 2.3 seconds left Sunday, and his Cleveland Cavaliers lost to the Eastern Conference-worst Washington Wizards 80-77. >
