Little Isaiah hits 52pts as Celtics beat Heat

Not that it was easy.

At that point, the Grizzlies already held a double-digit lead that reached 37 points in the fourth quarter. “I just feel great”. “I was just not concentrating on the game so it’s not always about the statistics”.

A superstar needs to be able to score in a multitude of ways, make his teammates better, get a bucket when your team most needs one, and compete well enough on the defensive end to round everything out.

Kyrie Irving scored 32 points as the National Basketball Association champion Cavaliers escaped with a 124-118 victory over the spirited Boston Celtics in Cleveland. Thomas had scored 20 or more points in Boston’s first 11 games before that mid-November defeat. “I would’ve never thought that’d be me accomplishing milestones like that”.

Even with James Johnson scoring 22 points and Tyler Johnson and Josh Richardson 19 points apiece, the Heat had no answer for the most dynamic inch-for-inch presence in the NBA, Thomas’ effort making the 19 points from Celtics center Al Horford less than even secondary. With Thomas hitting everything and the game being played at a fairly slow pace, no other Celtics hit double figures in points.

INDIANAPOLIS – Paul George scored nine of his 32 points during the final 4:07, and IN recorded 14 of the game’s last 18 points and defeated Chicago IN Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

Soon after, a Crowder three and quick steal and layup by Bradley – on James’ eighth turnover when he disgustedly attempted to bat the ball back to Irving – made it 113-110 with 3:18 to go.

“He came to the locker room and said, ‘My fault”. I was awful tonight.

Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love are defying the naysayers who hint the two can’t play alongside one another.

Westbrook scored 21 points before thrown out for arguing with the referees, the Thunder were trailing 61-45 at the time.

A day after Cleveland Cavaliers superstar LeBron James proclaimed that the Boston Celtics do in fact have a star, Isaiah Thomas went about proving him right. In the final frame, he made 9 of 13 shots, 6 of 8 3-pointers and all five of his free throws.

If you look at the final box score, you would think that the Heat played poor defense against Thomas. It won’t happen again, ‘ ” Lue said. The Cavs beaten Charlotte by an average of 9.6 points in the eight wins. He said in that moment during the fourth quarter, he felt like there was no one else out there with him on the court.

Cleveland built its lead to 20 later in the third before settling for a 101-83 lead heading into the fourth.

A Jimmy Butler basket tied the contest at 97, but George was fouled in the act of shooting a 3-pointer at the 4:07 mark. “Get better with age, I guess”. Regardless of how we play tonight and regardless of result, these guys are still the champions previous year and they are still well ahead of all of us. Detroit got 15 points and 15 rebounds from Andre Drummond, but he shot just 5-12 and turned it over six times in the loss. Over the remainder of the period, the Cavs ran off 13 unanswered points to take a 32-25 advantage heading into quarter number two. New Orleans has quietly won five of its last six games.