Five Fast Facts from NBA Games: 3.20.13

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statmannAs the college hoops begins the round of 64 on Thursday, the NBA had a very busy night on Wednesday. 11 games made up the NBA schedule on the 20th of March, 2013.

The Heat are starting to show god-like qualities, as they not only won their 24th straight game on Wednesday, but they accomplished a small miracle by rallying down 27 points in the second half. In other NBA action, the Marc Gasol and Anthony Davis played tip-in the game-winner to lead their teams to exciting wins, Tim Duncan made a visit to the fountain of youth and the Nets kept pace with the Knicks in the race to win the Atlantic Division.

As Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson would say, “Boots to assess!!”, now enjoy Five Fast Facts.

 

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Tweet of the Night: Micky Arison

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Lebron James 2The Miami Heat just can’t stay out of the headlines these days. Not with their incredible winning streak extending to 24 games, and certainly not with their unlikely (yet so likely) 98-95 comeback victory against LeBron James’ old team – the Cleveland Cavaliers – on Wednesday night.

It’s hard to determine what was more amazing: the fact that a short-handed Cavaliers team -playing without their starting center and backcourt – went up by as many as 27 points in the third quarter, or that the Heat managed to keep their streak alive by erasing that monumental, NBA season-high deficit. Perhaps the Heat came into the game expecting to coast and get an easy victory against one of the worst teams in the entire league, but it certainly didn’t work out that way when they found themselves down 55-34 at half time.

LeBron, however, led the charge with 25 points on an uncharacteristic eight-of-22 shooting, to go with 12 rebounds and 10 assists for his fourth triple-double of the season.

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[Related: Miami Heat has a realistic possibility of breaking the All-Time regular season winning streak]

You think Cleveland fans miss this man much? They may hate him on the outside, but most of them are surely hoping for a reunion when his contract is up in Miami. Just ask this guy, who decided to rush the court wearing a t-shirt that read ”We Miss You, 2014 Come Back.”:

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Fantasy Spin: Nuggets Win 13th Straight; Clippers Let One Slip Away

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By far the most impressive of Denver’s 13 consecutive wins, this one came on the road, against a great team that was 30-4 at home, after overtime the previous night.

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SH Blog: Miami Can Make History; Bynum Done for the Year; Gasol Back In 2 Weeks

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LeBron JamesThere’s an age-old axiom that states: you don’t set out to build a wall. You lay one brick as perfectly as that brick can be laid, and you do it every day, and soon you will have a wall.

The Miami Heat didn’t set out to break the NBA’s all-time longest win-streak of 33 games – a 41-year old record held by the 1971-’72 Los Angeles Lakers — but as they continue to stack win after win, it is becoming well within reach.

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Fantasy Spin: Heat Make It 23 Straight; Bynum To Have Surgery

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In a terrific contest, LeBron James (37 PTS, 12 AST, 7 REB, 2 STL, 2 BLK) powered the Heat to their 23rd consecutive win, but it could have gone either way. Kevin Garnett (adductor) was unable to play, but in his place, Jeff Green had the game of his life — 43 PTS, 7 REB, 5 3PTM, 4 BLK — and the proud, stubborn Celtics almost sent it to overtime.

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