The Orlando Magic have officially swept both the San Antonio Spurs and the LA Lakers in each of their respective regular season series. They pummeled SA, but the bouts with the Lakers were hard-fought nail-biters. If you're not keeping track, the Magic have the second-best record in the entire league. The team has played better basketball over the past month than it has played in a very long time. Other highlights over this period included the Christmas Day smackdown against NOLA, back-to-back wins against the Atlanta Hawks, and a record-breaking 23 three-pointers against the Kings earlier this week.
Up next on the hit list: the Denver Nuggets (whose roster now includes veteran PG Chauncey Billups - a monster against the Magic in the last playoffs), the Boston Celtics (who the Magic split their series with last year) and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Key moments:
ReplyDelete-Stan Van Gundy. From jumping up and down with palpable rage when D12 turned over the ball after a defensive rebound with under a minute left to audibly yelling "get the fucking ball goddammit" to Turkoglu
-Pau Gasol's face after getting a technical foul
-Kobe saying "man, fuck you" while smiling to Nelson as the game ended
-Courtney Lee's near posterization of Lamar Odom