2008 Woodie Awards
Steve Nash and the Phoenix Suns make this the best NBA season since MJ and the Bulls
David Mellars
Issue date: 1/31/07 Section: Sports
The National Basketball Association is certainly back, folks. A couple more weeks like this past one and people will be calling this season as good as when the Bulls won 72 en route to a championship. Great deal of happenings this week, so lets get right to them.
On Monday night, the Phoenix Suns had their 17 game win streak snapped by Kevin Garnett and the Minnesota Timberwolves. Garnett dropped 44 points and added 11 rebounds to lead the Wolves, who handed the Suns their first defeat in 2007. The Suns were close to having a perfect 16-0 month, but the loss dropped them to a still- impressive 15-1 mark. Steve Nash recorded 20 points and 18 assists in the game, and had an astounding 208 assists in the month of January, the most since John Stockton totaled 208 in March of 1995. The Suns are now tied with the Mavs for best record in the West and the NBA. A Western Conference showdown seems imminent if the two keep playing the way they do.
In an impressive showing last Friday night at Madison Square Garden, Jamal Crawford hit an impressive sixteen shots in a row en route to scoring 52 points for the New York Knickerbockers in a 116-96 victory over the struggling Miami Heat. The Heat, who are still without Shaq, are 5 games below .500, yet still remain in the playoff hunt in the lowly Eastern Conference.
Some good games are coming up this week. If you have not bought League Pass, it's only 99 dollars for the rest of the year. San Antonio faces a tough stretch this week, as they play Utah on Wednesday night (9:00 pm, ESPN) and Phoenix on Thursday (10:30 pm TNT.) during their Rodeo road trip. Saturday has an interesting intra-conference match-up between the Lakers and Gilbert Arena's Washington Wizards. Got to have League Pass for that one, though, as Kobe and Gilbert will go shot for shot until one of them eclipses fifty. Finally, Sunday features a match- up of last years Eastern Conference semifinals as the Cavs play the Pistons.
On Monday night, the Phoenix Suns had their 17 game win streak snapped by Kevin Garnett and the Minnesota Timberwolves. Garnett dropped 44 points and added 11 rebounds to lead the Wolves, who handed the Suns their first defeat in 2007. The Suns were close to having a perfect 16-0 month, but the loss dropped them to a still- impressive 15-1 mark. Steve Nash recorded 20 points and 18 assists in the game, and had an astounding 208 assists in the month of January, the most since John Stockton totaled 208 in March of 1995. The Suns are now tied with the Mavs for best record in the West and the NBA. A Western Conference showdown seems imminent if the two keep playing the way they do.
In an impressive showing last Friday night at Madison Square Garden, Jamal Crawford hit an impressive sixteen shots in a row en route to scoring 52 points for the New York Knickerbockers in a 116-96 victory over the struggling Miami Heat. The Heat, who are still without Shaq, are 5 games below .500, yet still remain in the playoff hunt in the lowly Eastern Conference.
Some good games are coming up this week. If you have not bought League Pass, it's only 99 dollars for the rest of the year. San Antonio faces a tough stretch this week, as they play Utah on Wednesday night (9:00 pm, ESPN) and Phoenix on Thursday (10:30 pm TNT.) during their Rodeo road trip. Saturday has an interesting intra-conference match-up between the Lakers and Gilbert Arena's Washington Wizards. Got to have League Pass for that one, though, as Kobe and Gilbert will go shot for shot until one of them eclipses fifty. Finally, Sunday features a match- up of last years Eastern Conference semifinals as the Cavs play the Pistons.
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