The Orlando Magic knocked off another marquee foe on Friday, beating the Boston Celtics 113-96 to boost their bid to reach the knockout stage of the NBA s new in-season tournament.
After flying from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Nets suffered their first road loss since December 8 on Monday, losing to the Trail Blazers, 114-108 in Portland. With the defeat, Brooklyn falls.
In order for the Blazers to pull off the unthinkable dream trade, 4 conditions really need to be met as a baseline:
Any trade must appease Damian Lillard as well as the pundits. It has to.
If Alex Smith, the quarterback of the Washington Football Team, needed any reassurance that his right leg would hold up after two years and 17 surgeries out of the game, he got it fairly quickly. Some 700 days after a sack by J.J. Watt left him with a compound spiral fracture in his right leg, and one of the most gruesome injuries in NFL history, he returned to playâand was promptly sacked by Defensive Player of the Year Aaron Donald.
Though the leg had been repaired successfullyâwith 28 screws and three platesâthe journey had been long, complex, and pretty terrifying. At one point, his leg was infected with flesh-eating bacteria called necrotizing fasciitis. Smith then developed sepsis, a complication of an infection that occurs when a bodyâs immune response damages its own tissues, which left him with two options: amputate his leg, or have a series of surgeries to try to save it. Neither option was good, and neither left Smith, a former number one overall pick,