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Eighth straight win created the top seed of West for the Spurs

The magnificent 124-89 victory of the Spurs against the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday evening secured their top seed position in the coveted Western conference. The star player Tim Duncan scored a well deserved 18 points in the game.

This was Spurs’ eighth win in a row and they are in a position where they care less for the streak now that only two insignificant games are left for them to play sportsbook review. What is of significance to the team is that their three big stars Manu Ginobili, Tony Parker and Duncan are ending the season in completely healthy conditions; this for the first time after 2008 season.

Duncan has his focus clear when he says “It is good to be in such a position; however, one has to be cautious, someone sneaks up and take one out. We are hopeful to get a far better effort in the current year and do much better job while staying away from all type of injuries.”

After reaching to the top position in a surprising manner last season, the team Spurs had to remain satisfied with only the fourth position with the loss in the first round. This current season win, which is the top speed position for the sixth time in the Tim Duncan era, came to the connoisseurs as even more astounding. Just two days prior to Duncan celebrating his 36th birthday, this NBA?s standard bearers defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder with the home-court advantage by their side.
Duncan added “We do not want to play game where people get hurt by playing some silly and meaningless game.”

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Los Angeles Clippers nail their victory against Oklahoma City thunder

The teams that met at the basketball court at Staples center in LA, Los Angeles clippers and Oklahoma City thunder, gifted the spectators an awesome match worth remembering. In their home match the clippers, earned their victory with the best performers of the match, Nick Young, Randy Foye and Blake Griffin. They nailed their victory and showed immense confidence in the match. The Clippers won the match by 92-77.

The skipper of the Los Angeles clippers, Blake Griffin, expressed his joy about the victory but said in his speech, ?we are looking for long term achievements by simply overcoming the short term goals?. Blake Griffin himself contributed 17 points to the total 92 points scored by the Clippers. Chris Paul expressed his feeling at the victory whose presence in the team has greatly changed the stats of the team. In an interview, Paul emphasized on their motto by saying that, ?We are going to work harder from the tomorrow. There is no place for self satisfaction in this victory for us?.

Oklahoma City thunder led by their captain Kevin Durant showed his concern at this loss. He played really well in the game, contributed 24 points but failed to continue the winning spree of the team. It is worth mentioning that the city thunder had won their last two consecutive games. Durant spoke about concentrating on their flaws and getting back their winning momentum. Durant mentioned, ?We have been missing some simple shots during the game which was unexpected?.

The very first basket was hit by Mo Williams and thus claimed a lead of 3 points for the Clippers from the very beginning of the game. It was Eric Bledsoe who contributed 10 points to the team, that is, Clippers among the first 14 points. Nick young one of the performers of the day, of the Clippers, was excited at the win as it was a fight between two tough teams. Thus it was a team effort that led to the victory of the Los Angeles Clippers. Chris Paul expressed his contentment about the team?s tough defense.

Durant on a counter speech praised the performance of the opponent team, the Clippers, but also added in his speech, ?They obviously played well but it is not an agreeable fact that they are a better team?.  But he did not forget to give the Clippers the credit for beating them with such excellent team work. At one time during the match, the Thunder was leading the game by 23-14 points but the Clippers came round soon and won the match.

Bulls Manages To Come Up with a Fantastic Win against Bucks

Chicago Bulls manages to come up with a fantastic win against Milwaukee Bucks. Carlos Boozer performed splendidly and managed to score as many as 20 points for Chicago. The twenty points that Carlos Boozer scored for Chicago proved vital as Bulls managed to crush Bucks. Boozer who scored 20 points gave the best performance, as Derrick Rose and Luol Deng scored 16 points each. Noah came up with an amazing performance as well and scored a vital thirteen points along with 10 assists and 13 rebounds.

This win secured by Bulls was indeed an achievement of some kind, since Bulls successfully managed to retain Central division as one of the nearest rival. Indiana also managed to go past Charlotte by a margin of 102-88. This was possible due to the benefit of twenty-two points from Tyler Hansbrough. The first half display produced by Oklahoma was fantastic as they managed to secure a vital win against Boston.

The victory margin was comfortable as well since the score line read 119-104. Russell Westbrook came up with an amazing performance as he scored a total point of thirty-one. Kevin Durant scored a goal of 28 and thus led by a significant margin of 72-49.
Oklahoma was already in a commanding lead and the win only stretched the commanding lead of Oklahoma in the North-West division.

Commanding lead of Oklahoma stretched further when Los Angeles Clippers scored a comfortable victory over Denver by a comfortable margin of 103-95. Chris Paul also came up with an amazing performance and scored as many as thirty-six vital points. It is due to the sheer amazing performance of Chris Paul that Clippers was way ahead of Lakers in the Pacific Division. Pau Gasol shrugged almost all belying speculations and came with a good enough performance thus pouring in as many as twenty-four points.

Golden State was successful in securing a much-needed win against Phoenix by a narrow margin of 106-104. The win of Golden State against Phoenix helped them reach the third division in the same level. In one of the other competition, Sacramento secured a win against Washington by a comfortable margin of 115-107. The vital 17 points secured by Jeremy Lin helped New York Knicks beat Atlanta. The margin of victory was comfortable as well since the scorecard read 99-82. New York Knicks closed the gap on Philadelphia as Houston beat Philadelphia by a margin of 93-87.

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