- In the playoff picture, Toronto beat the Pistons tonight to come within a half game of the Chicago Bulls for the 8th playoff spot in the East. Chicago has two games left, while the Raptors only have one, however Toronto does own the tiebreaker if both teams end with the same record.
- Atlanta has won three games in a row and now has a 1.5 game lead over Boston for the 3rd seed, likely playing Milwaukee in the first round.
- Portland has won its last two games, but lost G Brandon Roy to a torn meniscus. Roy will miss the last two regular season games, but may choose to postpone surgery in order to play in the playoffs.
- The Oklahoma City Thunder will likely end up with the 8th seed in the West after losing to Portland tonight. OKC has only one game left (against Memphis) and currently sit a game behind Portland and San Antonio. Kevin Durant needs to score 22 points to wrap up the League's scoring title, assuming LeBron sits out Cleveland's last game.
- The biggest news in the NBA from the past week surprisingly came out of Golden State, where Warriors coach Don Nelson passed Lenny Wilkins to become the NBA's all time winningest coach. The Warriors beat the Timberwolves last Wednesday to give Nellie his 1,333 career win. Nelson coached Milwaukee from '76-'87, Golden State from '88-'95, spend one year coaching the Knicks in the '95-'96 season, coached Dallas from '97-'05, and Golden State again from '06-present.
"Statistics are like bikinis. They are nice to look at, but they don't tell the whole story."
- Brent Barry, NBA TV analyst
For Your Viewing Pleasure: Will Bynum blocks a layup by Jose Calderon.
i heard LeBron will be playing in the Cav's last game but only for around 20 mins. Shaq supposedly is playing too. I think Durant has the scoring title more than locked already as he is first in overall points(2441 to 2258) and PPG (30.1 to 29.7). If anyone can catch up, it is LeBron though... haha
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