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Utah Jazz at Oklahoma City Thunder 3/14/10
13 hours ago - nba.com
... the second half without starting forward Andrei Kirilenko, who suffered a strained left calf and is questionable for Sunday. Point guard Deron Williams aggravated his left shoulder injury and was icing it after the game. He is expected to play against the Thunder, though. "We finally held a team under , but we don't score enough against them because their defense was good tonight," said Williams, who scored points on -of- shooting. "(Bucks coach) Scott Skiles had the team ready to play." While Utah's run over the last two months has helped it keep pace with the ... Read More »
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Durant, Westbrook ignite Thunder over short-handed Jazz
20 hours ago - usatoday.com
... the season strong and to try to continue to compete, and go from there," Westbrook said. Oklahoma City, which finished - last season, ensured that it will finish no worse than . and pulled even with Utah in the loss column with apiece. The Thunder have won all three meetings between the teams this season and would hold a tiebreaker if they end up with the same record at the end of the season. "That's very important, especially moving on with the season," Westbrook said. "I think if we continue to keep playing and keep playing the way we are, we're going to keep moving up." Those ... Read More »
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Utah Jazz: Banged-up Jazz can't slow streaking Thunder
21 hours ago - deseretnews.com
... shot . percent from the field, a Jazz opponent high this season. "We shot (.) percent. I don't have trouble with shooting percent," said Jazz coach Jerry Sloan, whose club which plays host to Washington tonight finished a four-game trip -. "But I have a problem when the other team shoots and you don't have any stops in there. "We couldn't keep people in front of us, keep them off the top of the basket. They set a little screen, we didn't get enough help to try to stop the penetration." So it wasn't the health situation, even with starting center Mehmet Okur (back), ... Read More »
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Thunder drop Jazz, close in on No. 4 playoff seed
21 hours ago - sportsillustrated.cnn.com
... strong and to try to continue to compete, and go from there,'' Westbrook said. Oklahoma City, which finished - last season, ensured that it will finish no worse than . and pulled even with Utah in the loss column with apiece. The Thunder have won all three meetings between the teams this season and would hold a tiebreaker if they end up with the same record at the end of the season. ''That's very important, especially moving on with the season,'' Westbrook said. ''I think if we continue to keep playing and keep playing the way we are, we're going to ... Read More »
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Durant, Thunder cut down short-handed Jazz
21 hours ago - sports.espn.go.com
... the season strong and to try to continue to compete, and go from there," Westbrook said. Oklahoma City, which finished - last season, ensured that it will finish no worse than . and pulled even with Utah in the loss column with apiece. The Thunder have won all three meetings between the teams this season and would hold a tiebreaker if they end up with the same record at the end of the season. "That's very important, especially moving on with the season," Westbrook said. "I think if we continue to keep playing and keep playing the way we are, we're going to keep moving up." Those ... Read More »
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Hot-shooting Thunder blister short-handed Jazz
22 hours ago - sltrib.com
... Site Web - powered by YAHOO! SEARCH The Salt Lake Tribune Oklahoma City As Jazz coach Jerry Sloan pointed out before Sunday's game, nobody feels sorry in the NBA for an injured team. The Oklahoma City Thunder certainly didn't in beating the shorthanded Jazz - at Ford Center. The Thunder never trailed in beating a Jazz team missing two starters in Andrei Kirilenko and Mehmet Okur plus backup point guard Ronnie Price, shooting . percent to close within a half-game ... Read More »
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Okur, Kirilenko sit out Jazz game vs. Thunder
1 day ago - nba.com
... Jazz played a key game for playoff positioning at Oklahoma City. Okur was sidelined with a strained back after playing a season-high minutes Friday night in a loss at Milwaukee. Kirilenko had left Utah's last game in the second half after straining his right calf. Okur and Kirilenko are the team's third- and fourth-leading scorers and combine for points and . rebounds per game. C.J. Miles and Paul Millsap took their places in the starting lineup. Reserve Ronnie Price was also out for the second straight game with a bruised right wrist. Earlier in the day, the Jazz signed ... Read More »
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Around the League: Whispers don't faze Westbrook
1 day ago - sacbee.com
Guard Russell Westbrook of Oklahoma City shoots over Hornets guard Darren Collison on Wednesday. Westbrook says skepticism over his play doesn't worry him.Russell Westbrook heard the talk before the NBA draft. He might still hear whispers about the subject. Is he really a point guard? West Read More »
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Thunder tops Jazz, gains ground in West
1 day ago - kansascity.com
... season strong and to try to continue to compete, and go from there, Westbrook said.</p><p> Oklahoma City, which finished - last season, ensured that it will finish no worse than . and pulled even with Utah in the loss column at apiece. The Thunder have won all three meetings between the teams this season and would hold a tie breaker if it ends up with the same record at the end of the season.</p><p> Thats very important, especially moving on with the season, Westbrook said. I think if we continue to keep playing and keep playing the way we are, were going to keep moving up.</p><p> ... Read More »
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Thunder threatening for Jazz
1 day ago - sltrib.com
... Site Web - powered by YAHOO! SEARCH The Salt Lake Tribune Oklahoma City As much as he wished the outcome would have gone differently, Jazz coach Jerry Sloan didn't have much to complain about after Friday's - loss to Milwaukee in the third stop of his team's four-game trip. "I like the kind of games we had [Friday]," Sloan said. "There's not any give or take out there. You try to do the best you can. If you like to play, those are the kind of games you like to play in. You compete like the devil and go home." To keep that same perspective, ... Read More »
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Durant dooms Nets
2 days ago - nypost.com
... added . Keyon Dooling finished with points off the bench, including nine straight for the Nets in the second quarter. "The guys are learning that we aren't good enough to play without a real high level of effort for minutes," Vandeweghe said. "When we have a slight letdown, that's when teams pull away from us. That's happened a couple of times at the beginning of the game in the first quarter and sometimes in the third quarter." Click on Each Photo ... Read More »
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Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant sets franchise record for most games with at ...
2 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
... City's Kevin Durant scored points his franchise-record th game with at least points this season to help the host Thunder beat New Jersey - for its th victory in games. Durant was the league rookie of the year when he played for the Sonics in the - season before the team moved to Oklahoma City. The previous record of games was set by Spencer Haywood of the Sonics in the - season. Meanwhile, Thunder rookie guard James Harden will miss from two to four weeks because of a strained right hamstring. Oklahoma City called up Kyle Weaver an ex-Washington ... Read More »
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Kevin Durant tops franchise mark for 30-point games in Thunder vic ...
2 days ago - detnews.com
... four on a -pointer by Terrence Williams. Oklahoma City committed four turnovers in the final two minutes and Russell Westbrook had to hit two free throws with . seconds left to preserve the victory and pull within / games of Utah for the fourth seed in the Western Conference standings. The teams square off Sunday. Durant went -for- in the first half, when teammate Jeff Green scored of his season-high points. Green knocked down two early -pointers to open the court. "They had to honor that," he said. "Once I made a couple shots, they had to step out. And when they did step ... Read More »