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Sweet 16: Streaking Spurs go up 2-0 on Clippers (The Associated Press)
17 May 2012 at 10:47pm
SAN ANTONIO (AP) On his 30th birthday, Tony Parker first kept the San Antonio Spurs on pace for what might be another lopsided playoff sweep. Then the All-Star who's always quick to needle Tim Duncan about his age finally acknowledged his own.
Spurs 105, Clippers 88 (The SportsXchange)
17 May 2012 at 9:30pm
SAN ANTONIO -- The red-hot San Antonio Spurs continued their winning ways, crushing the Los Angeles Clippers 105-88 Thursday at the AT&T Center for their 16th consecutive victory.
2012 NBA Playoffs TV Schedule for Friday, May 18 (Yahoo! Contributor Network)
17 May 2012 at 9:19pm
The 2012 NBA Playoffs schedule for Friday, May 18 will feature two games. On May 17, the Indiana Pacers and San Antonio Spurs each moved one step towards the next round with wins over their respective opponents. Which of these four teams playing on Friday will win the next game of their respective series?
Lakers' Blake, wife receive threats via Twitter (The SportsXchange)
17 May 2012 at 7:40pm
After Los Angeles Lakers guard Steve Blake missed a potential game-winning 3-pointer in the 77-75 loss to Oklahoma City on Wednesday, he and his wife received a number of threatening messages on Twitter, ESPNLosAngeles reported Thursday.
Thunder-Lakers Preview (The Associated Press)
17 May 2012 at 6:47pm
LOS ANGELES (AP) If the Los Angeles Lakers can just shake the memory of the disastrous final two minutes of Game 2, they'll find plenty of reasons in the first 46 minutes to be encouraged about their chances this weekend against Oklahoma City.
Lakers prepare for back-to-back blitz vs. Thunder (The Associated Press)
17 May 2012 at 6:46pm
LOS ANGELES (AP) If the Los Angeles Lakers can just shake the memory of the disastrous final two minutes of Game 2, they'll find plenty of reasons in the first 46 minutes to be encouraged about their chances this weekend against Oklahoma City.
Create-a-Caption: ?Vengeance is mine,? quoth Alvis (Ball Don't Lie)
17 May 2012 at 1:40pm
So, we tried something a little bit different for Thursday's Create-a-Caption. After Thursday morning's post on James Harden's inadvertent "remember me?" elbow on Metta World Peace during Wednesday night's Western Conference semifinal contest between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Los Angeles Lakers drew a fair bit of interest, we decided to ask followers of the Yahoo! Sports Facebook page and @YahooSports Twitter account for their captions on the above photo of the aftermath, just to expand the C-a-C studio space a bit. And we got some good ones , too. Like, for example: Ryan S. : ?"Anything you can do, I CAN DO BETTER!" Melissa S. : "And the Thunder rolls ... through a jaw or two!" Alex B. : ?"Damn, James, what's that nasty smell coming outta your beard?" Thayer L. : "If you had a beard like mine, that wouldn't have hurt." And so on. Now, listen. I know some of you longtime C-a-C'ers, who have fought through my grading and layout changes and the capriciousness of the Y! commenting system, might find this untoward. Unfair. Unruly. Unkempt. Unclean. Unctuous. Uncy Herb. BUT! I know you guys have some ideas that you're just itching to let fly on this one. AND I know you're still driven by the thrill of victory and terrified by the agony of an elbow in the nose. So let's hear it. How would you caption this photo, dear readers? Caption wins a beautiful tale on a lovely winter's night . In our last adventure : Coach Del Negro can't even find the knobs on this Etch-a-Sketch.
Sparks-Storm Preview (The Associated Press)
17 May 2012 at 11:36am
The Seattle Storm got only 13 games from three-time MVP Lauren Jackson last season while the Los Angeles Sparks received 17 from 2008 MVP Candace Parker.
Andrew Bynum after 9-0 Thunder run beats Lakers: ?We?re better than Santa Cla...
17 May 2012 at 10:20am
After an Andrew Bynum bucket with 2:08 remaining in the fourth quarter, the Los Angeles Lakers looked to be sitting pretty. They held a seven-point lead over the Oklahoma City Thunder thanks to nearly 46 minutes of gritty ground-and-pound that made the postseason's best offense ? yes, the Thunder entered Wednesday night averaging more points per 100 playoff possessions than even the San Antonio Spurs ? look disjointed and stale. OKC had hit just 39.7 percent of its shots en route to 68 measly points two nights after scoring 119 in Game 1 , and didn't appear to be anywhere near getting well against a Laker team that had held it to just 20 second-half points. Unfortunately for the Lakers, appearances can be deceiving. Whether you'd like to laud Kevin Durant for the win, damn Kobe Bryant for the loss, do neither or choose both, the fact remains that Oklahoma City went on a 9-0 run in the final 128 seconds to score a 77-75 Game 2 win , take a 2-0 lead in their Western Conference semifinal series and deliver a serious haymaker to L.A.'s spirits as it heads home for Friday night's Game 3. The Lakers blew this one, and their center knows it. Bynum (20 points on 8-of-19 shooting and nine rebounds in the loss) said as much with a sharp, somewhat curious postgame turn of phrase that was shared by the Lakers' Twitter account and later expounded upon by Sekou Smith at NBA.com's Hang Time blog : The Lakers led 75-68 with two minutes to play with the game seemingly in hand. But instead of the veteran Lakers salting this one away with Kobe Bryant finishing the deal, the Lakers lost control of the game and basically gave it away. "We're better than Santa Claus giving out gifts," said Lakers center Andrew Bynum. "We like giving out gifts. We give out games, contracts and rings." "We give out games, contracts and rings." What's that about?
James Harden elbows Metta World Peace in the face on the sneak tip (VIDEO) (B...
17 May 2012 at 6:05am
It's just like my dude Marie Joseph Eugène Sue wrote in "Mathilde" ? "La vengeance se mange très-bien froide." (Some people might know "Revenge is a dish best served cold" from "The Godfather," but I feel pretty confident that the Thursday morning crowd at BDL has its "1841 French novels" game on lock.) Twenty-five days isn't necessarily that deep a freeze, but the elbow that James Harden put in the middle of the face of Metta World Peace during the Oklahoma City Thunder's Game 2 win on Wednesday probably still felt pretty arctic to the Los Angeles Lakers forward. [ Johnny Ludden: Lakers' Kobe Bryant fails in crunch time against the Thunder ] Coming with the shot clock winding down during a late first-quarter scramble situation and resulting from a Harden behind-the-back dribble to evade a World Peace steal attempt, the left 'bow ? captured above by our friends at the Yahoo! Sports Minute ? seemed unintentional and was clearly nowhere near as violent as the World Peace shot that floored, concussed and sidelined Harden four Sundays ago. Still, you don't imagine Harden minded creating the contact too much; somewhere beneath all that beard, there may even have been a trace of a smile. [ Create-a-Caption: Y! fans weigh in on Harden's elbow ] Of course, because no act of physicality visited upon the former Ron Artest can expect to simply slide past, MWP came back in the second quarter with an answer befitting wrestling legend Stan "The Lariat" Hansen:

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