EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division
The National Basketball Association claims to sell entertainment. Part of that entertainment is close, competitive contests with uncertain outcomes. However, hometown fans want the home team to win. Hence, the optimal probability that the home team wins a game, from the perspective of maximizing demand, lays somewhere between 0.5 and 1.0. Using data from individual games for the 2001-02 season, this optimal probability was estimated to be approximately 0.66. Fans want their home team to have about twice the chance to win a game as the visiting team.
OKLAHOMA CITY - Kevin Durant had 21 points and 10 rebounds, reserve James Harden scored 20 and the Oklahoma City Thunder became the first NBA team to win three games on consecutive nights this season by beating the San Antonio Spurs 108-96 Sunday. Durant needed only three more assists to record his first career triple-double but instead sat out the entire fourth quarter with the rest of Oklahoma City's starters. The Thunder were able to coast to the finish for the second time in their back-to-back-to-back set after outscoring the Spurs 37-21 in the third.
MIAMI - LeBron James arrived for practice Monday wearing lime- green sneakers, a highly fluorescent shade. It was the fashion statement du jour for the league's three-time MVP, much like the eyeglass frames he's been sporting after games throughout this postseason. But those sneakers probably would have remained tucked away in the drawer beneath his locker during last year's NBA Finals, since very little about James' game would be considered glowing or luminous during those two weeks.
LOS ANGELES - After every plot twist and dramatic turn in the Los Angeles Lakers' soap opera of a season, perhaps their stars' latest identity switches shouldn't be all that shocking. Kobe Bryant made all the big passes. Steve Nash scored important points down the stretch. Pau Gasol excelled off the bench as the new- look Lakers calmly maintained a fourth-quarter lead on the mighty Oklahoma City Thunder.
ATLANTA - Atlanta Hawks co-owner Bruce Levenson says he had "dozens" of conversations with Danny Ferry over three months as the two discussed what it would take for Ferry to leave the San Antonio Spurs. Levenson's persistence paid off Monday as Ferry was introduced as the Hawks' president of basketball operations and general manager.
The NBA's amnesty era is under way. Taking advantage of the league's new get-out-of-a-contract card, the Orlando Magic waived Gilbert Arenas and the $62 million he was owed over the next three seasons as one of the very first moves after the lockout formally ended, and the New York Knicks were preparing to use the clause on Chauncey Billups - a precursor to adding Tyson Chandler as a free agent from the champion Dallas Mavericks.
NEW YORK - Jeremy Lin was barely hanging on to an NBA job when he stepped on the floor at Madison Square Garden last February. He returns today having proven he's a legitimate starter and sometimes star, capable of energizing a franchise and a fan base, a player who saved his team's season and was rewarded with a lucrative contract.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Los Angeles Clippers refused to let a third chance to knock the Memphis Grizzlies out of the playoffs slip away. Kenyon Martin scored seven of his 11 points in the fourth quarter, and the Clippers advanced to the Western Conference semifinals with an 82-72 win over the Memphis Grizzlies in Game 7 on Sunday.
MORGANTOWN - Two teams have promised to take West Virginia's Kevin Jones in tonight's NBA Draft, which lasts two rounds and 60 picks. One team with a first-round pick has reiterated its commitment to taking Jones somewhere in the draft. A second team has since stepped forward and vowed to use a pick it holds early in the second round to select the 6 foot, 6 inch, All-Big East forward.
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