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Dorell Wright Arrested for DUI
Written by feed    Thursday, 11 March 2010 14:55    PDF Print E-mail

Filed under: Heat, NBA Police Blotter

Dorell WrightMIAMI -- Miami Beach police say Heat forward Dorell Wright has been charged with DUI and driving with a suspended license.

Wright was stopped around 3:30 a.m. Thursday, then booked. Bond was set at $1,000, according to Miami-Dade County corrections officials. The arrest came just hours after Wright played 22 minutes in a win over the Los Angeles Clippers -- a win that put the Heat one game ahead of the Chicago Bulls in the race for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.

As it happens, the Bulls will be in town to face the Heat on Friday, but it's not yet known if Wright will be available to play, as he almost certainly faces a multiple game suspension. For context, Minnesota's Al Jefferson was suspended two games following a similar offense last month. Wright is averaging 6.3 points in 57 games this season for the Heat.

The team did not have an immediate comment, and Wright did not return a message left on his cell phone by the Associated Press Thursday afternoon.

This is the second traffic-related incident involving a member of the Heat in the last several weeks, although the first did not involve alcohol. Carlos Arroyo was arrested on his way to practice the morning of Feb. 26 after initially failing to pull over after police determined he was impeding traffic by driving too slowly. He's been charged with a traffic violation, resisting arrest without violence and failing to obey a lawful order.

Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.

 

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Following the Nets: Getting to 10
Written by feed    Thursday, 11 March 2010 13:55    PDF Print E-mail

Filed under: Nets



DALLAS -- For a few teams, reaching the 10-win plateau was a piece of cake. Take the Phoenix Suns for example. On Nov. 17, they became the first team to win 10 games this season and it took them a mere 12 games to do it.

For others it was a struggle. The Minnesota Timberwolves won their 10th game this season on Jan. 29.

But for 29 of 30 NBA teams, the 10th win of the season can be described in the past tense. Not for the New Jersey Nets. For them, on March 11, getting No. 10 is a goal for the immediate future. As you know, the Nets are the sole straggler as they sit at 7-57 after a loss in Dallas on Wednesday night. Their .109 winning percentage puts them on pace to win 8.9 games and puts them on the wrong side of history, one-tenth of a win shy of the NBA's worst-ever record, 9-73 by the 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers.

If it feels as if the Nets have been winning nine-tenths of a game lately its because they've played tough, but ultimately fallen short.

 

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Following the Nets: Loss No. 57
Written by feed    Thursday, 11 March 2010 02:55    PDF Print E-mail

Filed under: Mavericks, Nets

DALLAS -- Nets guard Courtney Lee had that WTF look in his eyes.

People who have played sports or fans who can't-believe-what-they-just-saw know that look. It's a glazed, tired stare that focuses on nothing in front of you (in Lee's case, the soft exoskeletons of ankle tape laying in a heap before him) but going over in your mind everything you just left behind, including an 18-point, second-quarter lead against the hottest team in the NBA.

That's right, the Nets led 41-23 against the Mavs, who had won 12 straight entering Wednesday night's game against New Jersey. But in the end, it turned out to be loss No. 57 for the Nets and the 13th straight win for the Mavs, 96-87. As Art Garcia of NBA.com noted, the Mavs' streak is now almost double New Jersey's win total for the season.

Such is life for the Nets these days as each game seems to be a Sisyphean task: every time they seem to have pushed the rock up the hill, something happens to make the rock roll back down again. In this case, that something was the Mavs' depth.

When Dallas can pull out a win when Dirk Nowitzki goes 3-for-16 from the field and their third-leading scorer for the night, Rodrigue Beaubois with 16, fouls out with 5:35 to go in the game, that's a team with options.

 

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Following the Nets: Taking Ownership
Written by feed    Wednesday, 10 March 2010 22:25    PDF Print E-mail

Filed under: Mavericks, Nets



DALLAS -- When Mark Cuban bought the Dallas Mavericks in January of 2000, he didn't have a timetable for turning around a franchise that went 239-549 (a pitiful .303 winning percentage) during the '90s.

"You can't plan that, you just don't know," Cuban said as he worked out on a stairmaster before Wednesday night's Nets-Mavericks game.

Cuban, however, knows when things could turn around for the Nets and their brethren across the Hudson River, the Knicks: in a New York minute. Actually, he gives it a little more than a month.

"I said this to Kiki and Rod both," Cuban said about Nets coach and GM Kiki Vandeweghe and team president Rod Thorn, "there's about a month, five weeks left in the regular season. In five weeks, them and the Knicks become the darlings of the NBA. They're all anybody's going to be talking about in regard to free agency.

"They're gonna go from being zeroes to heroes. The guys in the locker room who will stick around over there, they'll be talking about them as they're key components in the next generation Nets.

"Five weeks. They're going to be everybody's darlings."

 

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Pistons' Extreme Makeover for the Worse
Written by feed    Wednesday, 10 March 2010 17:55    PDF Print E-mail

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Ben Wallace, Tayshaun Prince and Rodney Stuckey
There's gunk clogging up the Pistons. Lots of it.

Gone are the days when Detroit would cruise annually to the Eastern Conference finals. Now, the Pistons are on a road to nowhere.

You can't say this team is rebuilding. It used gobs of salary-cap room last summer on ill-fated signees Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva when the Pistons could have waited until the big free-agency summer of 2010 to try to lure a real big-time player (Chris Bosh?).

The city of Detroit has been falling apart during this tough economy. OK, so the Pistons play in Auburn Hills. They've just brought more despair to the suburbs.

"It's sad,'' Denver point guard Chauncey Billups said of the Pistons, 22-41 and losers of six of their past seven.

 

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NBA Power Rankings: Fear the Deer
Written by feed    Wednesday, 10 March 2010 16:25    PDF Print E-mail

Filed under: Bucks, Cavaliers, Celtics, Jazz, Lakers, Magic, Mavericks, Nuggets, Suns, NBA Power Rankings, Thunder


The Mavericks might be the hottest team in the NBA, but the Bucks might be the scariest -- especially for the elite teams in the Eastern Conference. Since dealing for scorer John Salmons at the deadline, Milwaukee has won 10 of its 11 games, with the last two coming against the Cavaliers and the Celtics.

With their recent surge, the Bucks find themselves in the top 10 this week. As for everyone else? Read on to see where your favorites landed in this edition of our rankings.

 

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