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Show DAILY HERALD Sunday, December 9, 2007 D3 The Day in Basketball Howard's 47 trumps D-Wi- Star of tho Day win 41 in Mavs' fl's JOSH HOWARD FORWARD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS , & Score: Mavs 125 Jazz 117 The higlwollers who own front-roseats at Dallas Mavericks games gave up their spots Saturday night as part of the annual "Seats for Soldiers" benefit. Then Dallas' Josh Howard and Utah's Deron Williams made sure the troops enjoyed quite a DALLAS i a l Dallas Mavericks w N MIN REB 42 10 TP AST 47 il 1 . show. On a night when both teams made 60 percent of their shots, Howard's career-bes- t 47 pushed 7 the Mavericks past the Jazz despite a 41 for Williams. career-hig- h Howard's total was the sixth-moin Mavs history and topped his previous best by 17. His line: on pointers and shooting, on free throws, plus 10 rebounds, two assists and a block. "Josh is great when he's aggressive for four quarters. Tonight, he had it rolling," teammate Jason Terry said. Howard finished six points shy of the franchise scoring record. "We didn't have much of an answer for Howard," Utah coach Jerry Sloan said. "We couldn't stop him, but there were a lot of people we had a tough time stopping." NBA STANDINGS 125-11- EASTERN CONFERENCE st ' r ATLANTIC DIVISION C: V 9 hard-drivin- 8-- Philadelphia 7 New York, 6 2 14-- 2 3 6-- 7 5 13.350 1012 ' 13 J16 ."li- - 6 4-- 2 J W-- 7 5 ? - L Pet Orlando 16 5 .762 Atlanta 9 10 .474 Washington Charlotte 9 10 474 7 11 6 . .389 7 12 Miami 4 15 .211 W , StrHome L10 GB 1 3 64 6 Conf Away 9-- 3 W-- 7 1 5 6-- 5 4-- 6 5-- W-- ' 11 9 7 ' 6 . 9 8 13 6 Indiana 10 10 "He's a roller coaster. He's a good one, though," Rivers THE ASSOCIATED PRESS said. "He's a fast roller coaster is what he is. We believe CHICAGO Ray Allen in him. I think he is going to was shaky, Kevin Garnett was quiet, and Paul Pierce flat keep producing, I really do. He made some big jump shots out struggled. Trouble for the Boston Celt- tonight." Allen struggled at times, ics? No. but came up On a night when the three going with several timely baskets. superstars were less than Garnett was steady, if unsuper, Rajon Rondo matched spectacular, finishing with 16 points and nine rebounds. And Pierce flat out strugfrom the off the Chicago Bulls 1 on gled, going field with 10 points along with Saturday night. six turnovers. He got into Sure, Allen scored 21 points, but Rondo was the dif- early foul trouble and missed all four shots in thg first half ference, before finally converting 1 12 "They are worried about minutes into the third quarter. KG, they are worried about Others stepped up. Paul, they are worried about Rondo had one of his best myself," Allen said. "Him begames, finishing with seven ing so aggressive like that, rebounds and five assists, it definitely gives us another Posey added 11 points and angle to our offense." Glen Davis grabbed a season-hig- h Boston was leading 0 12 rebounds. after James Posey threw a "That was huge," Pierce . pass to Alsaid. "Every night it is somelen with 5:23 remaining, but instead of cruising to a win, body different because teams are so focus on me Kevin and the Celtics had to hang on. The Bulls scored the next 11 Ray that guys are getting opportunities and they are takpoints, culminating with a Andres three-poiing great advantage of it." by play Nocioni had a decent night Nocioni that made it 1 with just under a minute left. for Chicago, which had won four of five and beat Detroit Garnett then hit a fadethe previous night. He scored away jumper, and the Celtics 18 after averaging 21 points won their sixth straight. At in the previous four games, 17-they own the league's best record. And it's easy to although he hit just 1 of 7 Kirk Hinrich added see why. Although coach Doc Rivers 16 points and six assists, while Luol Deng scored 15. called him a "roller coaster," But the league's worst Rondo was steady on a night when the Celtics three stars shooting team was off target were up and down and hit 9 Leading again, going the brick brigade was Ben of 13 shots. with 18 points, a season-higand the Celtics continued their torrid pace by holding h 92-8- 86-7- k 86-8- 2, if ' , New Orleans Memphis 2 8 4-- . 4-- 4 5 ,' 3 Pet ' .850 13 7 .650 4 13 8 .619 412 11 9 .550 6 .300 TT 6 , 14 , StrHome L10 GB 1 W-- 5 6 W-- Conf Away 12-- 0 ;, 12-- 3 6 4 W-- '4-- 9-- W-- ' t--4 7 9 5 . 4-- 9 NORTHWEST DIVISION L Pet ,13, 8 .619 W Denver Utah 13 ' Portland 8 .619 12 .368 Str Home L10 GB W-- 2 5 ' .9-- 3 6-- Away Conf .f5 1 5 " 7 5 W-- 6 ' .250 7 12 7 W-- 2 8 , 3 '. 15 ,167 8 12 8 W-l- " 8 Seattle 5 Minnesota 15 7 9 Away Conf 10-- 4 ' PACIFIC DIVISION L Pet Phoenix 16 5 .762 Golden State 11 8 .579 4 11 8 .'.579 4 7 11 .389 7 12 7 12 .368 W . LA lakers . LA. Clippers Sacramento nt L10 GB StrHome H 3 W-- 8 ., W-- 8 W-- 1 4-- t4 6-- 4 "7-- 4 t--2 8-- 1 1 8 FRIDAY'S RESULTS TODAY'S GAMES Boston 112, Toronto 84 Houston 96, New Jersey 89 New Orleans 118, Memphis 116, 0T San Antonio 104, Utah 98 LA. Clippers 97, Sacramento 87 Seattle 104, Milwaukee 98 Golden State 120, Miami 113 Houston at Toronto, 10:30 a.m. at LA Clippers, 1:30 p.m. Milwaukee at Portland, 4 p.m. Charlotte at Detroit 4 p.m. New Jersey at Washington, 5 p.m. Seattle at New Orleans, 5 p.m. Golden St at LA. Lakers, 7:30 p.m. i Miami SATURDAY'S RESULTS MONDAY'S GAMES Atlanta 86, Memphis 78 Charlotte 96, Cleveland 93 Philadelphia 105, New York 77 Minnesota 100, Phoenix 93 , ' Boston 92, Chicago 81 Dallas 125, Utah 117. Denver 101, Sacramento 97 Atlanta at Orlando, 5,p.m. Houston at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Dallas at New'York.'SO p.m. Miami at Phoenix, 7 p.m. Milwaukee at Sacramento, 8 p.m. . NBA SCOREBOARD MAVERICKS 1 25 ...'V....!..r....!..f.f.... UTAH (117) Kinlenko 10, Booiar 10, Williams 41, 0- -2 6, Hart 4, Harprlng -2 7, Miles 2, Mlllsap Herrmann 34, Okur Brewat 7 Collins . 2. Totals Fooled Carroll Anderson Boston Chicago Charlotte 46 (Richardson S). Asslits Cleveland 14 (S.Brown, Gibson 3), Charlotte 16 (felton 6). Total Foula Cleveland 31, Charlotte 23. Technical! Charlotte defensive three second. Flagrant Fouls PavkwIc.A 17,624(19,201). 117. 76ERS 105, KNICKS 77 ......... dauas (125) Jo.Howard 47, Nowitzki 10. Terry Oampler 21, Harris 2 19. Stackhouse 10, Dlop 0, 0 2, Ju Howard 0, George 1 Totals 125. Oallae 34 32 25 30 23 23 Utah 16, - Bass 0. 117 126 36 36 Boala Miles Utah 6 (Williams Dallas (Jo.Howard Terry Stackhouse Fouled Out NowibH Boozer. Rebwmde Utah 39 (Mlllsap 9). Dallas 34 Utah 25 (Kinlenko 6), (Jo Howard 10). Aaalata Dallas 25 (Harris 12). Total Foute Utah 26. Dallas 20. Technicals Jo.Howard, Dallas defenalve three second. A 20,300 (20,468). KlrHenko HAWKS MEMPHIS (76) 17. Gay Gasol 2, Sloudamlre 13. Mllictc Miller 0. 2, Klnsey 3, Lowry 14, Navarro 15. Warrick 0. Totals Jacooten 12, 78. ATLANTA M Williams 8. 17, Law 25, Hortord J.Johnson 4. Stoudamlra 0, West 0, Jones 86. II 10 26 23 2 14 27 ' 71 II B 2, Richardson 7 5, Curry 3 6 6, Crawford Maroury 4 Balkman 10, Jones 6, Lee 6 3 2, RoMnson 4, Jeffries 25, Collins 0 0 0. Totals 0, Chandler 2 Randolph 77. (Miller Klnsey Stoudamlra Navarro Atlanta Law Gay0-5(AJohnaon S Williams Sloudamlre JJohnaon Fouled Out None Rebounds Memphis 46 (Gay 11), Atlanta 58 (Hortord 14) Aselste Memphle 18 (Gay, Lowry 4), Atlanta 22 (AJohnaon 8). Total Foula Memphis 17, Atlanta 21. A 15,658 (19,855). (93) 9, Gooden 0 14. Brown 8. Dgauakaa CHARLOTTE Wallace Hughes 0 0. Da ret) 2. Felton 4 16. Mctanio 5, Anderaon Totals tills 22. Okafor 24 4. 15, 22, Jones Dw. Jones 0, 91 0. Totals 0 9? S Brown 9. Gloeon 19. Richardson 4, Carroa Herrmann 5. 96. 21 21 17 b m it it Cleveland Pevtovtc Da Hughes S.Brown Charlotte 26 14. 17. Dlaw 8 6 13 aa (Glbaon NewMe Jones (Rlchardeon 0 0, Douby DENVER (Hinrich Chicago 10. Miller Moore 9 0 24. Salmons 5 25, 21. Thomas 0. Hawes 0;0-- 3 0 2 Terfek 2 0 10, Gomes 7 100. 10, (101) 4 32 20 24 27 24 32 5 92. p. Totals 16 Piarce 0 2 4. Rondo DeW 3 6, Poeey 8 3. Totals 1, House 36-- 34 34 6oils 31 11 17 18 24 101 (Salmons Udrlh Garcia Artest Douby Denver Iverson Carter (Klelza Fouled Out Miller. Smith Anthony Rebounda Sacramento 43 (Moore 13). Denver 57 Sacramento 27 (Artest 11). (Camby 13). Aaalata Denver 29 (Iveraon 10). Total Foula Sacramento Denver defensive three 28, Denver 13. Technlcale aecond. A 15,493 (19,155). FEEL LIKE -- JACOB, 7, Richard 13 13 13 25 Sacramento AGE B 13 100 " i - i r, e BULLS 81 Yo4 0 17, Iverson I. Smith 19, Ptwenli Ben Saote (Nash Dlaw Hill Marlon Barboaa Gomes Minnesota Jaric (McCants Telfair Brewer Fouled Out None. Ptwenli 41 (Skinner 6), Minnesota 65 Rebounds Uettereon 20). Aaalata Phoenix 29 (Nash 15), Minnesota 17 (Teltek 6). Total Paula Phoenix 20, Minneaota 16. Tec4nlcala Mlnneaota defensive three aecond. A 16,356 (19,443). I0ST0N(!2) 20. Camoy 23, 9, 14,'MafUn CarWr7.16.8-- 4 3 9, NeieraO-- WITH WoVATER." Jefferson Jade 3 97. A FISH 5, Skinner 16. o: Totals ,J Anthony "I 11. Stoudamlra Be 6, (100) 8. Smith 32. McCants 0 0 Totals Gametl Posey 10. 77, 93. 5 CELTICS Irene 15, HoMna 2, 13. Marlon Brewer 81 (R.Allen 105 30 20 (93) 16, Nash MINNESOTA BOBCATS 96, CAVS 26 20 25 18 rwOLVES100,SUNS93 5 92 (97) 0 Jones 24 19 PhtocWplito NawYork PHOENIX 22 NUGGETS 101, KINGS 97 SACRAMENTO Klelza Barbosa 0 4. Totals 1 CLEVEIANO Pavlovlc 6 (77) . toah) Memphis Lowry 2, NEW YORK 7. Udrih Garcia 5, Williams 0 Meiiphei NewMe -2 Artest Smith 17. 4 AJohnaon 5. S 5. Wright 0. Totals 0- - 17, Dalemhert 11, Green 18, Korver 6 7. Smith 14, Williams 8. 4 2 0 7, Voting 14, Randolph Carney 4 0 1 105. 0, Ollkt 1 0 0. Totals (66) 23 '6 Gordon Fouled Out None. Reboundt-Baito- n 49 (Davis 12), Chicago 46 (Wallace 14). Aesiete Boston 22 (Pierce 7), Chicago 20 (Hinrich 6). Total Fouls-Bo- ston 20. Chicago 16. Technicals Chicago defensive three second: 22,778 (22.467). Miller 3, 22 (105) 6, Iguodala Evans Soala (Iguodala Philadelphia Korver Williams New York . Carney Richardson Jones (Robinson Crawford Fouled Out None. Maroury Rebounds Philadelphia 61 (Evans 14), New York 41 (Lee 11). Aaalata Philadelphia 26 (Miller 10). New York 12 (Meroury 3). Total Foula Philadelphia Robmicm, Flagrant 22, New York 17. Technicals Foute Smith, Lee. A 18,899 (19,763). 78 GRIZZLIES 86, PHILADELPHIA 26 .,25 21 ..J Soala Boston House Pierce Nocioni Duhon 1 - Snow was a tough Hinrich said. "We played really well against Detroit, not so well at times tonight not to take anything away from them. Hopefully, we're coming along." 62 5 8 52-3- Boston kept its starters on the bench during the fourth quarter of Friday's 112-8- 4 win, but the Bulls posed more of a challenge. They just didn't have enough to pull it back-to-bac- ' Houston st ,. out. "Obviously, we're frustrated with this loss, but it 4 2 . 92 ,7-- 4 W-- 412 Conf Away 2 333 612 L Antonio-1- Dallas 78: At Atlanta, Josh Smith scored 25 points and rookie Al Horford grabbed 14 rebounds to lead Atlanta, which has won three of four and six of nine. accurate team Memphis, the NBA's fifth-molost its fourth straight after shooton ing a season-worbeyond the arc. After hitting a runner midway through the third, Smith followed with a three-poiplay He finished to stretch Atlanta's lead to from the field and grabbed seven percent for the season. Gordon doesn't see anything wrong with his shot when he watches video, though. "A lot of times you can find maybe (you're) not holding the follow through or whatever," he said. "Most of the time, it's just shots not going in. You've just got to be patient and continue to work hard." The Bulls had swept two straight season series from Boston, winning three games last year, but the Celtics aren't the same these days. Those concerns about a lack of depth? They've been getting key contributions from players such as Rondo, Posey and Eddie House. The notion that there would not be enough shots to satisfy their stars? Garnett, Allen and Pierce were each averaging between 19.3 and 20.8 points entering the game. And they're getting plenty of . StrHome , .500 3 12 12 W I Hawks 86, Grizzlies Gordon, who scored 13 points but was just He missed all 10 of his shots in the second half and is at 37.3 rest. 6 L10 GB free-thro- Allen leads Boston to win Andrew Seligman Pet I, .684 .W Detroit, SOUTHWEST DIVISION Felton's two free throws with 3.1 seconds left put Charlotte up 3. Without any timeouts left, Cleveland was forced to inbound from the backcourt and Larry Hughes' half court shot at the buzzer was well short. Hughes scored 22 points in his first game in over a month after being sidelined with a bone bruise in his left leg. Shannon Brown and Daniel Gibson each scored 15 for the Cavaliers, who committed 27 turnovers. Emeka Okafor added 19 points, Jason Richardson 18 and Felton scored 15 for Charlotte, line from the which went in the final minute. five-gam- 101-9- I 5 Conf Away 10-- 0 WESTERN CONFERENCE st home-and-ho- i 812 Chicago", success- back-to-bac- behind-the-bac- 5 .450 W-- 6 Milwaukee ... 8 .10 .444 Cleveland 9 12 .429 e 55-3- - .500 7 12 11 , be able to allow teams to shoot at that clip and booed on a number of occasions. expect to win." I Bobcats 96, Cavaliers 93: At Charlotte, N.C., I T'Wolves 100, Suns 93: At Minneapolis, the Gerald Wallace scored 22 points and Raymond g Phoenix Suns finally rap out of Felton went f or-- from the foul line in the final 16 seconds as Charlotte snapped a seven-gamgas. The Suns' offense fell flat in the second half losing streak. and Al Jefferson tied a career-hig- h with 32 Playing again without LeBron James, the lead Cavaliers couldn't hold onto a three-poin- t points to go with 20 rebounds to carry the -starved Minnesota Timberwotves. early in the fourth quarter, then missed several The Timberwolves entered the game with chances down the stretch to lose their sixth 5 a league-worrecord, but dominated on straight game. f4 ; 10 San e the boards and snapped a losing and on streak. Marko Jaric added 19 points and Craig was 13of-2from the line. He also had seven assists, two Smith had 16 points and eight rebounds for the steals and three rebounds. Wolves, who outrebounded Phoenix While he topped the career high of 35 points Steve Nash had 14 points and 15 assists and set earlier this season, he didn't have any satis- Leandro Barbosa scored 16 of his 17 points in faction. the first half for the Suns, who wore down in "No. We lost," he said k the second game of a and their The Jazz shot 67.5 percent in the first quar- fourth game in five nights. ter, yet came out trailing by five. Utah went an incredible 76ers 105. Knicks 77: At New York, Willie (82.4 percent) in the third quarter, yet trimmed only two points off Dallas' Green scored 18 points, and the 76ers completlead. The Jazz wound up shooting 60.5 percent, ed a sweep of the Knicks. Andre Iguodala added 17 points and Reggie yet lost its third straight. Dallas shot 59.7 percent, scored its most Evans had 14 rebounds for the 76ers, who beat 0 Friday in Philadelphia. This points of the season and had all five starters the Knicks score in double digits nice ways to end skids one was even easier, giving them consecutive of two straight losses, three of four and six of victories for the first time this season. The Sixnine. However, the Mavericks continued their ers passed the Knicks to escape last place in the trend of giving up quarters. They did Atlantic Division and have won the last four so for the 11th time in 12 games, and actually meetings in the series. Nate Robinson, who didn't even play in the did it twice, allowing 34 and 35 in the final two first half, scored 25 points for the Knicks, who periods. "We just weren't able to stop them for long trailed by as much as 28 during a performance stretches," Stackhouse said. "We know we've that ranked somewhere between careless and got to get better defensively in order to get a simply not caring. They gave up a number nice streak of games going. We're not going to of dunks, usually after a turnover, and were ;. 10 StrHorru L10 GB CENTRAL DIVISION 0 ', Toronto , Dirk Nowitzki? He had 16, but none until five minutes into the second period. With everyone else playing so well, Dallas hardly needed the reigning MVP. This game could've been a blowout. It actually headed that way when the Mavericks went up by 16 late in the third quarter. TONY GUTIERREZAssociated Press Williams, however, refused to let it happea A Dallas-are- a native, Williams scored 18 Utah Jazz guard Deron Williams (8) drives around Dallas Mavericks center DeSagana Diop 41 points points in the third quarter, including Utah's last (7) on his way to the basket in Dallas on Saturday. Williams had a career-hig- h nine. He had 14 more in the fourth quarter, in- in the 125-- 1 17 loss to the Mavericks. cluding a pair of free throws that got the Jazz fast-brea- .895 SOUTHEAST DIVISION 10. 123-11- 2 Ntw Jersey.; 9 st high-archin- Pet 17 W Erick Dampier scored 21 points, matching his total for the previous seven games. Devin Har12 assists and 10 ris had a career-bepoints. Terry had 19 points and Jerry Stackhouse had within with 3:41 left. Nowitzki answered with a basket, then Carlos Boozer missed a shot for Utah. Boozer fouled out on Dallas' ensuing possession and the comeback was pretty much done. Howg ard made sure of it by hitting a k then feeding Terry for a dunk that made it "All our losses, we've struggled defensively," Williams said. "We dominated points in the paint, we executed well, we just didn't get enough stops. We need to work on helping each other out on our rotations." Williams, who grew up in a Dallas suburb, L Boston 10. Parkins 18. fl Allen 3 1 11. T.Allen krVw bow to met 8 92. 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