LeBron writes to Curry: "Stop"

Torrential compliments on social forums came to Steph Curry for the incredible Oklahoma City contest, 46 points, 12 triples including the final one two steps beyond the half-court line at 0.6 seconds with the Warriors down by 2 in the overtime.
“@stephen Curry30 need to stop man!” so attacks his twitter LeBron intimating to the colleague who is ripping him off to stop. Scoring 198 points in a week while playing five games away from home is a Guinness record that is mind-boggling. Saturday’s result is already worth certain qualification for the playoffs when there are 24 matches to go (that’s just the final quarter), but for the champion who last week even found time to play on the greens at Augusta National, the scene of the famous Masters, also being an excellent golfer (2 handicap) has been anointed by famous colleagues. He was complimented by Wade, Nowitzki, Porzingis, DeRozan, Lillard and Magic Johnson the only dissenting old guard who keeps repeating that in their day, with a more physical game, he would not have had a chance and would never have made it to the All Star Game.
To them, Steve Kerr, in his day a champion of the old guard, replied: if they have any doubts, take a good look at the Oklahoma contest. In truth out of the chorus also Kobe Bryant, whom a decade ago he had baptized as No. 1. The extraterrestrial who meanwhile stretched the series of consecutive triples, an impressive 288, with an average of 3 per contest. Also this unprecedented record.
As for the market, after Lee and Joe Johnson, Andre Miller, a player capable of magic in the finals and from whom Gallinari learned in Denver, is moving from Minnesota to San Antonio. To make room for him, he cut Ray McCallum. With Wizard Andre, the 5-time champion team venta as many as two 39-year-olds, although Duncan has 19 seasons under his belt, 2 more than his new partner, an optimal prop in case need Paker and Danny Green who have not been the best this season.
Speaking of the market, we hear talk next season of Durant to the Warriors, a hypothesis that immediately provoked a series of pleas to the NBA commisioner to veto it. Spike Lee and Dustin Hoffman preferred to drink the Knicks’ bitter Sunday chalice at the Oscar ceremony. With 26 points from Wayne Wade and 12 from Joe Johnson, until a week ago a New Yorker for the Nets, taken by the Heat being Chris Bosh stopped by doctors for a new danger of a pulmonary embolism, the Heat won for the fifth consecutive time at Madison. The Knicks were missing Aaron Affalo, Melo Anthony’s 25 points and center Robin Lopez’s double-double were not enough to avoid an ugly (18 points) and embarrassing defeat, the 14th in the last 17 and with a stint of 81 points due to the little “contribution” of Porzingis (9 points) and Calderon (7 points).
Yet the only one who still believes in the possibility of the playoffs with only 21 games left is the replacement coach that President Phil Jackson put in place of a former friend, Derek Fisher. Says Kurt Rambis: “It’s a long way to go, I’m not hallucinating… But for me this result depends on mentality, a culture that you have to have and that you achieve by putting expectations on yourself. A mental effort not only useful for the players this year, but next year and the year after. This is the way of thinking of winners.”
If Sparta cries, Athens does not laugh. The Cavs this year will be the first in the East by force of inertia more than by play or performance show no improvement in the change of coach, and after being down 30 points in Washington and cashing defeat No. 17, more than those of the Warriors (5) and the Spurs (9) at the last turn of the century, LeBron James left without talking to reporters, probably irritated by the turn of rest given to him by his coach, a clone of Doc Rivers without having the experience and titles. And to think that LeBron a few days ago was going around claiming “I feel better than I did 10 years ago,” he needed rest. However, the team now over the salary cap signed a 10-day contract with Jordan McRae arrived from the Suns: 8 points and 7 minutes, the only one with plus/minus sign for this 2.03 small guard chosen by San Antonio in 2014.
Those who did not hold back were JR Smith. “If we keep playing without energy like we did today, we don’t deserve to wear this jersey.” And again, “We can’t drag playing like this into this season finale, people talk about us as possible title contenders and then we suck. We can’t think that then everything changes all of a sudden. If we’re serious, as I suppose we are, we can’t go on like this.”
The only outside success among the 7 contests was Portland stringing together a 14-game winning streak in 17 games, exactly the opposite of the trajectory of the Knicks who had made it to the playoffs area 2 times earlier in the season, shares 6th place (32/8) with the Mavericks who won at home by 27 with Minnesota to beat them on rebounds. They still benefited from David Lee’s baskets and rebounds (13 +9) , 26 of 37 free throws and Chandler Parson’s early-season injury-shadowed period of form.
Also Demien Lillard who came out great from an injury that cost him the All Star Game, right now the little point-bomber is among the top 5 players in the league and was the best scorer of the day (33 points with 5 threes on 8). Indiana’s victory was the result of 50% in shooting and 58% from 3 (14/24) and also weighed the 4 threes out of 5 of Myers Leonard the 23-year-old and atypical 2.14 white center who prefers to shoot from the arc. Only 21.3% for Indiana, which struggles to keep afloat when Paul George is not on a night like Sunday (4/15 and 4 watered-down bombs).
The late winter day bottomed out in Atlanta with the lowest score and Charlotte’s 76 points with 21.4 from 3 (7/32) , a playoff zone team that did not have the usual contribution of Nicolas Batum, one of Europe’s best, as evidenced by the 2 points (1/6 and 0/4 on triples). The highest score of the day was Orlando’s 130 points, with 28 from Nikola Vucevic, the Montenegrin Swiss or vice versa, and Mario Hezonja’s positive quintet debut, almost a gift for his 21st birthday. “Supermario,” No. 5 in the draft, a 2.5 he plays guard and in four roles, did not make him regret the absence of French Fournier with 13 points 5/9, 2/3 from long distance 3 rebounds and 2 assists in his first real game (27 minutes). For him 5.2 points, 1.1 assists and 1.9 rebounds that means being able to hold the court, even if the European rookies of the season to have already made the leap are the lètton Porzingis and the Serbian Jokic.
SKY SPORT TV – Deferred coverage of Atlanta-Charlotte today at 2 p.m. and 11:15 p.m. on SS 2 HD. The weekly schedule continues at 1:30 a.m. between Tuesday and Wednesday, March 1-2, with Heat-Bulls (delayed Wednesday 2 p.m. 2HD and 6 and 10:30 p.m. 3 HD), Clippers-Thunder at 4:30 a.m. between Wednesday, March 2 and Thursday, March 3 (delayed Thursday 2 p.m. 2HD and 6 and 10:30 p.m.n on SS 3 HD) and concludes with Cavaliers-Wizards at 2 a.m. ago Friday, March 4 and Saturday, March 5 (delayed Sunday 4 p.m. on SS 2 HD)

RESULTS Sunday, Feb. 28: WASHINGTON-Cleveland 113-99 (21 J.Wall 13a 7a, 21 O.Porter 4/6 da3, 17 B.Beal; 28 K.Irving 4/8 da3, 10 T.Mozgov 10r); ATLANTA-Charlotte 87-76 (13 A.Horford 6/17 16r, 14 K.Bazemore; 16 Marv.Williams 4/9 da3 9r,2 N.Batum 1/6 0/4 da3); DETROIT-Toronto 114-101 (19 R.Jackson 8a, 15 A.Drummond 18r tl3/8; 27 T.Ross, 20 D.DeRozan, 11 J.Valanciunas 5r); Indiana-PORTLAND 102-111 (18 M.Ellis 6/17 5r 5a, 11 P.George 4/15 0/4 da3; 33 D.Lillard 5/8 da3 11/23 tl6/6 5r 2a, 19 CJ McCllum 7/20, 19 G.Hendersn, 17 M.Leonard 4/5 da3); ORLANDO-Filadelphia 130-116 (28 V.Oladipo, 28 N.Vucevic 6r, 13 M.Hezonja, 11 E.Payton 10a; 26 J.Okfor, 17 I.Smith 5r 7a); DALLAS-Minnesota 128-101 (29 C.Parsons 10/15 4/7 da3 6r, 13 D.Lee 9r; 24 S.Muhammad tl8/10, 12 KA Towns 11r, 14 R.Rubio 5a); New York-MIAMI 81-98 (25 C.Anthony 9/24 tl6/7 7r, 14 R.Lopez 14r 6/9, 7 Calderon 3/13 1/3 da3, K.Porzingis 4/13 1/3 da3 8r; 26 D.Wade, 16 H.Whieside, 12 J.Johnson, 0 J.Winslow +13r 0/4)

Edited by ENRICO CAMPANA