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Sweetwater Reporter
Wednesday, December 29, 2010 ■ Page 11
Raptors take advantage of
Dirk's absence, upset Mavs
DALLAS (AP) - Rookie
Ed Davis and the short-
handed Toronto Raptors
took advantage of the injury
absence of All-Star Dirk
Nowitzki to pull off one of
the season's biggest upsets.
Davis had a career-best
17 points and 12 rebounds,
Linas Kleiza and DeMar
DeRozan added 16 points
apiece, and the Raptors beat
the Dallas Mavericks 84-76
on Tuesday night.
Nowitzki had an MRI
exam earlier Tuesday that
revealed a sprained right
knee and the team said he
was day to day. Nowitzki,
seventh in the league with
24.1 points per game, was
injured in the second quar-
ter of Monday night's 103-
93 victory at Oklahoma
City.
"We've got to get used to
playing without the big fella
for a while," said Mavericks
center Tyson Chandler. "We
had a tough time adjusting.
Our defense held them to
84, but offensively we had
nothing."
Dallas went 31 for 75
from the floor, 5 for 22 from
3-point range.
The Raptors remain
without top scorer (Andrea
Bargnani, 21.2 points), lead-
ing rebounder Reggie Evans
(12.1), starter Sonny Weems
and long-range shooter Peja
iitfi
Stojakovic.
Starting guard Jose
Calderon became the lat-
est addition to the Raptors'
injury list when he missed
the game after hurting his
ankle during Monday night's
96-85 loss at Memphis.
Jerryd Bayless started, then
went to the locker room in
the fourth quarter with an
ankle problem.
Kleiza shortened the
Toronto bench even further
when he was ejected with
5:14 left in the third quar-
ter after drawing his second
technical foul.
But coach Jay Triano
remained upbeat during
timeouts despite all the
adversity.
"I just kept encouraging
these guys and trying to
come up with something we
could score on and some-
thing we could get stops
with," Triano said. "All our
guys stayed real positive
and I thought that was a key
part in tonight's win."
Toronto, which had
dropped its last 10 games
in Dallas and had lost nine
of its previous 11 overall,
got 12 points each from
Amir Johnson and Leandro
Barbosa.
"Ed stepped up, Amir
played well, and I thought
all our bigs played extreme-
ly well," Triano said.
Jason Terry scored 18
points and Caron Butler 15
for the Mavericks, who had
won 17 of their previous 18.
Dallas led in the game's
first minute, but trailed the
rest of the way while set-
ting a season-low for points
scored.
The Mavericks got as
close as 71-68 with 7:41 left,
but the Raptors answered
with an 8-0 run capped by
Davis' layup with 4:05 to
play.
The Raptors held a 48-24
edge on points in the paint
and a 42-35 rebounding
advantage. Toronto had 25
fast-break points to nine
for Dallas, outhustling the
older Mavericks for most of
the night.
"I'd credit them more
than saying we gave it to
'em," said Mavericks coach
Rick Carlisle, returning to
the bench after missing
Monday night's game after
knee surgery. "I think they
earned it."
NBA-best Spurs keep Bryant,
Lakers reeling with 97-82 win
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -
Tim Duncan and Manu
Ginobili were on the bench
before the final horn, and
not because of their bad
shooting nights. That's
how easy it was for the San
Antonio Spurs.
On the other end, Kobe
Bryant was also out of the
game early. That's how
bad it's getting for the Los
Angeles Lakers.
Tony Parker scored
23 points and the Spurs,
backing up their NBA-best
record against the defend-
ing champions, beat a still-
frustrated Bryant and the
reeling Lakers 97-82 on
Tuesday night.
The Spurs improved to
27-4, and if there are any
doubts about that record
being inflated, they can
likely put those to rest this
week. Next up is Dallas, one
of the only teams to beat
them this season, followed
by games against Oklahoma
City, New York and Boston.
The Lakers, meanwhile,
can't seem to beat anyone.
It was another humilia-
tion for the Lakers, who lost
a week ago by 19 at home to
lowly Milwaukee. That was
followed by letting LeBron
James and the Miami Heat
leave the Staples Center
with another easy victory on
Christmas Day, in one of the
highest-rated televised NBA
games in recent years.
Bryant railed on his
team's lack of focus follow-
ing the Heat loss, but had a
more quiet disappointment
after the Spurs became the
third straight team to crush
the Lakers.
Bryant had 21 points on
8-of-27 shooting, at one
point missing 13 shots in a
row. He answered questions
in clipped sentences before
saying he was confident the
Lakers can steer out of their
stunning tailspin.
"I'm just (mad) at myself,"
Bryant said. "(Mad) I didn't
play well."
He wasn't the only one on
the Lakers. Bryant alluded
to Derek Fisher's techni-
cal foul, after getting into a
confrontation with Richard
Jefferson, about the attitude
throughout the team.
The Lakers dropped to
21-10, marking the first time
since 2007 they've reached
10 losses this early.
DeJuan Blair had 17
points and 15 rebounds,
leading an unlikely Spurs
cast that buried the Lakers
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Hill had 10 while the Spurs
coasted toward the end,
almost remarkably, while
Duncan and Ginobili were
reduced to non-factors on
offense.
Duncan was 1 of 7 from
the field and had two points.
Ginobili made only 3 of 12,
finishing with nine points.
"It means Tony Parker
was amazing tonight," Spurs
coach Gregg Popovich said.
Ron Artest and Andrew
Bynum had 10 points apiece
for the Lakers. When the
buzzer sounded, Bryant was
the first off the bench and
headed back to the locker
room.
It's only December, but
Bryant hasn't treated the
slump as a mere blip.
After James and Dwyane
Wade coasted to a 14-point
win in Los Angeles on
Saturday, Bryant seethed
over a second straight
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as though the games "mean
more to our opponents than
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over the focus of the two-
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Bryant came out like he
was trying to set an exam-
ple. He scored eight of the
Lakers' first 10 points — all
within the first 3 minutes —
and attempted 10 shots in
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Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 038, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 29, 2010, newspaper, December 29, 2010; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth229355/m1/11/: accessed May 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.