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12-04-2013, 03:08 AM
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The Philadelphia 76ers overcome the Magic in Double Overtime and as a result, moves in to 2nd Place in the Atlantic Division while the Detroit Pistons def. the Heat and snaps their 10-game winning streak and as a result, moves to 2nd Place in the Central Division
Here are the stories:
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/gametracker/recap/NBA_20131203_ORL@PHI
Carter-Williams fuels Sixers to 2OT win over Magic
Dec. 3, 2013
PHILADELPHIA -- Michael Carter-Williams and Victor Oladipo gave the NBA a double dose of triple-double history.
Carter-Williams had 27 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists for Philadelphia, and Oladipo had 26 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists for Orlando, the first time two rookies had a triple-double in the same game.
After 58 minutes of hoops, Carter-Williams had the only stat that truly mattered - the win.
Carter-Williams had his first career triple-double, and Thaddeus Young added 25 points and 12 rebounds to lead the 76ers past the Magic 126-125 in double-overtime on Tuesday night.
Carter-Williams got his 10th assist on a dish to Young late in the second OT to put the Sixers up 125-120.
''It's not me versus Oladipo,'' Carter-Williams said. ''It's Sixers versus Orlando. It's a team game. I just wanted to get the win.''
Evan Turner had 24 points for Philadelphia, which snapped a four-game losing streak. James Anderson added 19 points and Spencer Hawes 17.
Arron Afflalo scored a career-high 43 points for the Magic and Glen Davis had a career-high 33.
''I'm upset we lost, but under the circumstances of how we were able to stay in the game, I'm proud of the guys,'' Afflalo said.
Turner was whistled for his fifth foul with 12.1 seconds left in the first OT on Afflalo's 3-point attempt. Afflalo made all three free throws, tying the score at 118. The Magic fell behind early in the second overtime and the Sixers held on from the free-throw line.
The Magic, coming off a 98-80 loss at Washington on Monday night, played without Nik Vucevic (14.7 ppg, 10.9 rpg) because of a sprained left ankle and point guard Jameer Nelson (sprained left foot).
Davis stunned the Sixers with his first 3-pointer of the season, nailing it from the top of the key to tie the score at 104-all with 18 seconds left in the fourth quarter. He was 6 for 40 in his career on 3s and hadn't made one since the 2011-12 season.
''He loves playing, he loves competing, he loves to win,'' coach Jacque Vaughn said. ''I'm going to spring for some ice for the ice bath and cool him down for two days from now.''
Afflalo sparked a rally earlier in the quarter, capping a 9-0 run with a jumper that gave the Magic a 98-96 lead with 2:45 left. After the Sixers grabbed a four-point lead, Afflalo buried his fourth 3 to make it a one-point game. Young scored for the Sixers, then Davis connected in the clutch.
The Sixers stil had a huge edge beyond the arc, making 11 of 29. The Magic missed 20 of 26.
''We pulled it out, and that's huge,'' Turner said. ''The experience is great. Both sides have young teams. I'm just glad we were able to come out on top. It was crazy.''
Carter-Williams' first 3 of the game in the third made it 83-72, getting a rise out of the roughly 10,000 fans who turned out for this one.
Carter-Williams was named Eastern Conference rookie of the month before the game, the first Sixers rookie to win the award since Allen Iverson in April 1997. Carter-Williams, the 11th overall pick of the draft, had already scored 20-plus points five times this season and helped the Sixers beat Miami, Washington and Chicago to open the season. He made 11 of 19 shots and chipped in three steals with a banged-up right knee against the Magic.
The Sixers (7-12) have cooled considerably since their surprising start, but first-year coach Brett Brown has them playing hard and playing smart. As the NBA season tipped off, the over-under out of Las Vegas for total wins for the 76ers this year was 16.5, the lowest of any team in the league.
They should top that -- and Carter-Williams is a big reason why the Sixers are somehow in the playoff mix.
''We all played great,'' Carter-Williams said.
Of course, an Atlantic Division littered with bad basketball and underachievers also has the Sixers in the hunt. None of the five teams in the division have a winning record.
The Magic's record would have them chasing first in the Atlantic instead of dumping them in last in the Southeast Division, well behind Miami.
Afflalo was 14 of 27 from the field, made five of Orlando's six 3s, and was 10 of 11 from the free-throw line.
''It's was a long game and, to lose by a point, that was a tough,'' Afflalo said.
Notes: Orlando played the second game of a six-game road trip. ... Carter-Williams had Philadelphia's first triple-double since Andre Iguodala on March 23, 2005. ... Orlando's starters scored all but nine points. ... There were 23 lead changes and 16 ties.
Meanwhile....
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/gametracker/recap/NBA_20131203_DET@MIA
Pistons snap Heat's 10-game winning streak
Dec. 3, 2013
MIAMI -- It was just a game, not a playoff series. Still, Brandon Jennings finally got a long-awaited win over the Miami Heat.
And he made the two biggest plays to get it done.
Jennings made a deep, well-covered 3-pointer to snuff out one Miami rally with 4:09 left, then stole the ball from LeBron James to set up another score two minutes later, and the Detroit Pistons beat the Heat 107-97 on Tuesday night to snap the NBA champions' 10-game winning streak.
Kyle Singler scored 18 points to lead seven Detroit players in double figures, Andre Drummond had 18 rebounds -- more than any three Heat players combined -- and Greg Monroe and Rodney Stuckey each scored 16 for the Pistons.
''We had a lot of good performances from a lot of people,'' Pistons coach Maurice Cheeks said. ''Then we just held our composure because we knew that at some point they'd make a run. Brandon made that big 3 and we were able to hold on. When Brandon hit that big 3, it kind of settled us down a little bit.''
It might have of deflated the Heat, too.
Miami trailed by as many as 18 and then got within three on a dunk by James midway through the fourth. The Heat then missed their next three shots, two of them 3-point tries that would have knotted the game, before Jennings connected from 26 feet out - ''the dagger from 90 feet,'' James said afterward - to put Detroit up by six.
''Just the way the game goes,'' said Heat guard Norris Cole, who was defending Jennings on the play. ''He made a big shot. Just got to tip your hat.''
The Heat never got any closer. They nearly did, being down seven and with James charging downcourt with about two minutes left, but Jennings stole the ball away, brought it to the other end and set up Monroe for an easy bucket that sealed the deal for Detroit.
And for Jennings -- who predicted his Milwaukee Bucks would oust the Heat in six games when they met in the opening round of last season's playoffs, then got swept -- it was a small measure of comeuppance.
''They didn't make shots down the stretch that they usually do,'' said Jennings, who's in his first season with the Pistons. ''We're still getting better and better. But we can't have a stretch like in the fourth, with a lead, that we couldn't get a bucket.''
James and Michael Beasley each scored 23 for Miami. The Heat played without guard Dwyane Wade, the All-Star sitting for the fourth time this season to rest a sore knee.
Miami shot a season-low 44 percent.
''It's a miss or make league at times,'' James said. ''They made. We missed.''
Jennings and Josh Smith each scored 15 for Detroit, which got 10 points apiece from Drummond and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. Chris Bosh scored 14 and Ray Allen added 12 for Miami, which was outrebounded 46-34.
The Heat had more turnovers (eight) than field goals (seven) in the first period, missed 12 of their first 16 shots and found themselves down by 11 points before the game was 11 minutes old. And it wasn't like the Pistons were all that hot, either -- they shot 48 percent in the quarter.
When the second quarter started, the Pistons were sizzling.
Drummond had four points in an 8-0 spurt to start the second, one that gave Detroit an 18-point lead with 9:30 left in the half.
With that, the Pistons became just the second opposing team in the last 83 Miami home games, including playoffs, to lead by that many on the Heat's home floor.
And that was just one of many instances where the Heat were left shaking their collective heads. James had 14 points in the second quarter, one of the very few reasons why it wasn't a total Detroit runaway by the break.
''It was really tough to get a flow,'' Bosh said. ''We kept turning the ball over, we didn't have the necessary energy we needed tonight and we got beat.''
Notes: Reserve guard Roger Mason Jr. was active for the Heat, two nights after Miami police said he was a robbery victim. Police said two men brandishing pistols went into a restaurant where Mason Jr. was dining, ordered everyone on the floor and one of the items they stole was a Rolex watch from the NBA veteran. The watch was recovered Monday and police have arrested two men while still looking for two other suspects. ... The 10-game winning streak was the sixth-longest in Heat history. ... The Pistons came in averaging a league-best 51.2 points in the paint, and had 60 on Tuesday.
credit: cbssports.com
The Philadelphia 76ers overcome the Magic in Double Overtime and as a result, moves in to 2nd Place in the Atlantic Division while the Detroit Pistons def. the Heat and snaps their 10-game winning streak and as a result, moves to 2nd Place in the Central Division
Here are the stories:
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/gametracker/recap/NBA_20131203_ORL@PHI
Carter-Williams fuels Sixers to 2OT win over Magic
Dec. 3, 2013
PHILADELPHIA -- Michael Carter-Williams and Victor Oladipo gave the NBA a double dose of triple-double history.
Carter-Williams had 27 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists for Philadelphia, and Oladipo had 26 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists for Orlando, the first time two rookies had a triple-double in the same game.
After 58 minutes of hoops, Carter-Williams had the only stat that truly mattered - the win.
Carter-Williams had his first career triple-double, and Thaddeus Young added 25 points and 12 rebounds to lead the 76ers past the Magic 126-125 in double-overtime on Tuesday night.
Carter-Williams got his 10th assist on a dish to Young late in the second OT to put the Sixers up 125-120.
''It's not me versus Oladipo,'' Carter-Williams said. ''It's Sixers versus Orlando. It's a team game. I just wanted to get the win.''
Evan Turner had 24 points for Philadelphia, which snapped a four-game losing streak. James Anderson added 19 points and Spencer Hawes 17.
Arron Afflalo scored a career-high 43 points for the Magic and Glen Davis had a career-high 33.
''I'm upset we lost, but under the circumstances of how we were able to stay in the game, I'm proud of the guys,'' Afflalo said.
Turner was whistled for his fifth foul with 12.1 seconds left in the first OT on Afflalo's 3-point attempt. Afflalo made all three free throws, tying the score at 118. The Magic fell behind early in the second overtime and the Sixers held on from the free-throw line.
The Magic, coming off a 98-80 loss at Washington on Monday night, played without Nik Vucevic (14.7 ppg, 10.9 rpg) because of a sprained left ankle and point guard Jameer Nelson (sprained left foot).
Davis stunned the Sixers with his first 3-pointer of the season, nailing it from the top of the key to tie the score at 104-all with 18 seconds left in the fourth quarter. He was 6 for 40 in his career on 3s and hadn't made one since the 2011-12 season.
''He loves playing, he loves competing, he loves to win,'' coach Jacque Vaughn said. ''I'm going to spring for some ice for the ice bath and cool him down for two days from now.''
Afflalo sparked a rally earlier in the quarter, capping a 9-0 run with a jumper that gave the Magic a 98-96 lead with 2:45 left. After the Sixers grabbed a four-point lead, Afflalo buried his fourth 3 to make it a one-point game. Young scored for the Sixers, then Davis connected in the clutch.
The Sixers stil had a huge edge beyond the arc, making 11 of 29. The Magic missed 20 of 26.
''We pulled it out, and that's huge,'' Turner said. ''The experience is great. Both sides have young teams. I'm just glad we were able to come out on top. It was crazy.''
Carter-Williams' first 3 of the game in the third made it 83-72, getting a rise out of the roughly 10,000 fans who turned out for this one.
Carter-Williams was named Eastern Conference rookie of the month before the game, the first Sixers rookie to win the award since Allen Iverson in April 1997. Carter-Williams, the 11th overall pick of the draft, had already scored 20-plus points five times this season and helped the Sixers beat Miami, Washington and Chicago to open the season. He made 11 of 19 shots and chipped in three steals with a banged-up right knee against the Magic.
The Sixers (7-12) have cooled considerably since their surprising start, but first-year coach Brett Brown has them playing hard and playing smart. As the NBA season tipped off, the over-under out of Las Vegas for total wins for the 76ers this year was 16.5, the lowest of any team in the league.
They should top that -- and Carter-Williams is a big reason why the Sixers are somehow in the playoff mix.
''We all played great,'' Carter-Williams said.
Of course, an Atlantic Division littered with bad basketball and underachievers also has the Sixers in the hunt. None of the five teams in the division have a winning record.
The Magic's record would have them chasing first in the Atlantic instead of dumping them in last in the Southeast Division, well behind Miami.
Afflalo was 14 of 27 from the field, made five of Orlando's six 3s, and was 10 of 11 from the free-throw line.
''It's was a long game and, to lose by a point, that was a tough,'' Afflalo said.
Notes: Orlando played the second game of a six-game road trip. ... Carter-Williams had Philadelphia's first triple-double since Andre Iguodala on March 23, 2005. ... Orlando's starters scored all but nine points. ... There were 23 lead changes and 16 ties.
Meanwhile....
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/gametracker/recap/NBA_20131203_DET@MIA
Pistons snap Heat's 10-game winning streak
Dec. 3, 2013
MIAMI -- It was just a game, not a playoff series. Still, Brandon Jennings finally got a long-awaited win over the Miami Heat.
And he made the two biggest plays to get it done.
Jennings made a deep, well-covered 3-pointer to snuff out one Miami rally with 4:09 left, then stole the ball from LeBron James to set up another score two minutes later, and the Detroit Pistons beat the Heat 107-97 on Tuesday night to snap the NBA champions' 10-game winning streak.
Kyle Singler scored 18 points to lead seven Detroit players in double figures, Andre Drummond had 18 rebounds -- more than any three Heat players combined -- and Greg Monroe and Rodney Stuckey each scored 16 for the Pistons.
''We had a lot of good performances from a lot of people,'' Pistons coach Maurice Cheeks said. ''Then we just held our composure because we knew that at some point they'd make a run. Brandon made that big 3 and we were able to hold on. When Brandon hit that big 3, it kind of settled us down a little bit.''
It might have of deflated the Heat, too.
Miami trailed by as many as 18 and then got within three on a dunk by James midway through the fourth. The Heat then missed their next three shots, two of them 3-point tries that would have knotted the game, before Jennings connected from 26 feet out - ''the dagger from 90 feet,'' James said afterward - to put Detroit up by six.
''Just the way the game goes,'' said Heat guard Norris Cole, who was defending Jennings on the play. ''He made a big shot. Just got to tip your hat.''
The Heat never got any closer. They nearly did, being down seven and with James charging downcourt with about two minutes left, but Jennings stole the ball away, brought it to the other end and set up Monroe for an easy bucket that sealed the deal for Detroit.
And for Jennings -- who predicted his Milwaukee Bucks would oust the Heat in six games when they met in the opening round of last season's playoffs, then got swept -- it was a small measure of comeuppance.
''They didn't make shots down the stretch that they usually do,'' said Jennings, who's in his first season with the Pistons. ''We're still getting better and better. But we can't have a stretch like in the fourth, with a lead, that we couldn't get a bucket.''
James and Michael Beasley each scored 23 for Miami. The Heat played without guard Dwyane Wade, the All-Star sitting for the fourth time this season to rest a sore knee.
Miami shot a season-low 44 percent.
''It's a miss or make league at times,'' James said. ''They made. We missed.''
Jennings and Josh Smith each scored 15 for Detroit, which got 10 points apiece from Drummond and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. Chris Bosh scored 14 and Ray Allen added 12 for Miami, which was outrebounded 46-34.
The Heat had more turnovers (eight) than field goals (seven) in the first period, missed 12 of their first 16 shots and found themselves down by 11 points before the game was 11 minutes old. And it wasn't like the Pistons were all that hot, either -- they shot 48 percent in the quarter.
When the second quarter started, the Pistons were sizzling.
Drummond had four points in an 8-0 spurt to start the second, one that gave Detroit an 18-point lead with 9:30 left in the half.
With that, the Pistons became just the second opposing team in the last 83 Miami home games, including playoffs, to lead by that many on the Heat's home floor.
And that was just one of many instances where the Heat were left shaking their collective heads. James had 14 points in the second quarter, one of the very few reasons why it wasn't a total Detroit runaway by the break.
''It was really tough to get a flow,'' Bosh said. ''We kept turning the ball over, we didn't have the necessary energy we needed tonight and we got beat.''
Notes: Reserve guard Roger Mason Jr. was active for the Heat, two nights after Miami police said he was a robbery victim. Police said two men brandishing pistols went into a restaurant where Mason Jr. was dining, ordered everyone on the floor and one of the items they stole was a Rolex watch from the NBA veteran. The watch was recovered Monday and police have arrested two men while still looking for two other suspects. ... The 10-game winning streak was the sixth-longest in Heat history. ... The Pistons came in averaging a league-best 51.2 points in the paint, and had 60 on Tuesday.
credit: cbssports.com