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By Stephen Lars

Magics vs. Raptors

In an exciting journey loaded of high scores, the Toronto Raptors defeated Orlando Magic with a score of 108-102. On this encounter the big star that took charge of leading Toronto to the victory was Anthony Parker, who with his 26 points knew how to take control of the game. From the Orlando’ side, who arrived with an advantage of 17 matches won, also brought some good scores, Dwight Howard gain 39 points that even so in the end weren’t enough to reach the Raptors, who regardless of not counting with Jermaine O’Neal or José Calderón, showed during the whole game set to win it.

Cavaliers vs. Wizards

The Washington Wizards, the team at the bottom from the Southeast division of the East Conference managed to overcome the Cleveland Cavaliers after a mistake by LeBron James within seconds from the end of the encounter, at the moment of throwing the ball that could have tied the final result, James by mistake gave more steps than what’s permitted, which brought the success to Wizards with the 80-77.

Clippers vs. Pistons

Following an arbitrary decision, LA Clippers were beaten with a difference of one point only (88-87) by the Detroit Pistons, who despite not having the help of some of their most important players starter players _due to injuries_, attained their seventh in a row triumph. During the course of the match, the approaches to the hoop from both teams were constant but not very effective, if the contrary would have happened the scores would have been of the three digits.

Grizzlies vs. Mavericks

Memphis Grizzlies surpassed the bad streak of thirteen consecutive losses when they crushed the Dallas Mavericks. The player of the game was definitively Marc Gasol, who leaded his team and scored 19 points for them, the next 2 responsible of scoring more points were Rudy Gay and Hakim Warrick with 18 points each.

Celtics vs. Knicks

Another pair meeting was Boston Celtics, the current NBA Champions who couldn’t trounce their rival, the New York Knicks, for whom the encounter was the perfect stage to break the chain of eight consecutive fails before the Celtics. The higher scorer was Al Harrington who brought 30 points to the Knicks that controlled the game from the third quarter on, imposing strongly in the last period. For the Boston Celtics this is the fourth loss of the last six matches.

Lakers vs. Trial Blazers

The last encounter of the day saw the LA Lakers stood up firmly before the Portland Trail Blazers with a score of 100-86. Again Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol shined in the stadium, this time the two superstars guided their team to the victory with 26 and 19 points respectively. From the very beginning Los Angeles marked the direction of the battle, which blocked the guys from Portland and reduced their chances to reach the contrary backboard. The triumph for the Lakers line up in their list of consecutive winnings at home, which count 15 until now; and in general six.

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