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Knicks defeated Philadelphia 76ers comprehensively in the opening match

Knicks got a good start with a win against Philadelphia 76ers in the opening match of in the first match of home series on Sunday. Carmelo Anthony played an important role behind winning the match for his team. He scored 27 crucial points by the help of which Knicks won the match by 100-84 margin. J.R. Smith also played well as he scored 20 points.
They played a lot of extra passes and as a result their performance looked very comprehensive. Anthony was extremely happy with the result of the match and he has given full credit to the boys of his team. He said, ?We have belief on our capability. All the players of the team are efficient and we are only looking at win.?
Philadelphia 76ers has badly missed their one of the most important player Andrew Bynum but on the other hand Knicks handled the situation quite well. Their forward Amar’e Stoudemire was not playing in this match but Anthony took the place of him and played quite efficiently. Felton and Kidd were playing their parts wonderfully in the back-court.
They scored 104 points against Miami and won that encounter is well on last Friday. Therefore, they are only continuing their good form and winning matches in a row.
Philadelphia also started well in the season by winning the opening match by a good margin of 84-75. However, they could not play with the same efficiency in this match. Their defense was not playing well and as a result of this they were playing slow and creating a lot of spaces open for Knicks.
Philadelphia coach also admitted the fact that it was difficult to play against the Knicks. In the first part of the match Knicks took a lead of 31-25 by the help of Anthony and Felton both of whom scored 9 points each. As the match progressed they increased the margin and when only 4:25 was the remaining time they had a lead of 71-55 and Philadelphia 76ers could not come back in the match.
This was no doubt an extremely special match for Anthony. Before, he was famous for his scoring ability. However, today he jumped over the first row of chairs to save a ball. According to him there was no chance of injury as he knew exactly where he was going to put his feet. Well, his performance really impressed all the other players of the team.
There is another bad news for Philadelphia 76ers as one of their very important players Jason Richardson injured his left ankle as he stepped on a cameraman. Though the X-ray report is not bad, he would not be able to play on Monday.

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Los Angeles Lakers got their first win against Detroit Pistons

Championship trophies are nothing new for the player like Pau Gasol and Kobe Bryant as both of them have lifted the trophy number of times. Therefore, they know the value of winning a match and also know that there is nothing to be extremely excited after winning a single match as there is a long way to go.
Los Angeles Lakers was struggling to get a win and finally they have cherished the sweet taste of it on Sunday against Detroit Pistons. Well, they have got the win in a good margin which will surely boost their confidence. They have won the match convincingly with a margin of 108-79. Howard has got 28 points and on the other hand 15 points have been scored by Bryant.
Gasol said, ?There was no other way out except to win a match for us as we are losing them continuously. Well, we have got a comprehensive win and we are getting out of tension gradually.? Gasol also took a crucial part in winning his team by scoring valuable 14 points.
Metta World Peace also scored 18 crucial points. He is playing really well recently. He has got 0-8 in the last year and this year he has also played well till now. Los Angeles Lakers also has signed two other players Steve Nash and Howard for them.
Well, still Lakers are going through some other problems with the recent offence of their coach Mike Brown. They have got the win for sure, but one thing is there to be remembered that Detroit Pistons never played well in the match.
Steve Blake has also admitted the fact that they eagerly wanted the win. He said, ?The win was very much required for us. Mentally, our players are feeling good after getting this win.?
In the last 34 years they have not got such a worst start with a consecutive loss of 4 matches. Bryant said, ?Mike Brown will be quite relieved after this win for sure.? Mike was going through the controversy for long time and now there is something good for him.
They dropped the match against Clippers, Portland and Dallas. After 1978 this will the worst performance by them till now. However, this win will make them believe on themselves.
Lawrence Frank depicted the fact that, Lakers play better than his team. However he said, ?My teams also have a lot of good players. They will surely uplift their game.?
The schedule can be a headache for Piston as they have to go to Denver on Tuesday to play a match and they have to go to California again for playing against Sacramento Kings on the very next day.

NBA and Ticketmaster join hands to please fans with tickets

The NBA Basketball league never had any formal ticketing counter from where fans could get the tickets to the NBA matches. NBA is a major league and it was shameful for such a league to lack such facilities. Not only was it shameful on their part. Many people took this opportunity to do forgery with tickets and cheat fans. A lot of money had gone to waste.
Often fans would go to their respective team websites looking for tickets but unfortunately they were disappointed every time. Certain surveys were constructed and the result was found that 70% of the fans never got tickets at the websites. Another survey also concluded that two out of three fans got tickets through secondary sources and Stub Hub.
Stub Hub gained the market by promising fans that those who had been cheated with fake tickets would be given a replacement ticket. There are four teams who are not with Ticketmaster. The teams are the Jazz, Rockets, Nuggets and Trail blazers. Now that Ticket master and NBA have decided to coincide with each other every fan can get a ticket from the website.
This is very good on behalf of the organization as well as the fans. The fans can no longer be cheated. They need not pay excessive money for tickets anymore and they can easily get tickets from a dependable source. On the part of the organization it is very good as they cannot get the actual valuation of the fan support that every single organization enjoys in the NBA league. ?Just like teams could evaluate players in the past, now they can also evaluate their fans?.
Through this method ticket prices can be directly monitored by the NBA and the team authorities. The ticket prices can be kept under control and no more can the fans be harassed. With the amount of brokers around the teams also fail to know whether they are selling the tickets to the correct fan or not. Are the brokers making extra money out of these tickets by charging more from the fans?
So to stop these ill practices the NBA association and Ticketmaster has come up with this brilliant idea of providing fans with a one stop ticket shop. This is going to start from the month of October and is expected to make history. The season tickets have to be dealt with very delicately because it?s not just about the games but it?s also about the 12 month membership.