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HERO OF THE WEEK

By and large, Duane Wade can only sympathize. At the age of 25, the guy had the most difficult task - to drag a club that received a championship title, but was staffed entirely by veterans and not thinking about the future. Restoring Shaquille O'Neill, of course, is a big help in gaining a ticket to the playoffs, but Flash still more often has to play one against five. 32.0 points, 5.8 rebounds, 8.5 assists and 3.0 interceptions last week speak for themselves. As well as 12 losses (club anti-record) with 41 points in a meeting with “Cleveland” - you can not be with the ball all the time and not be mistaken.

Chasing the week

Match “Heat” - “Cavs” will be in the asset of Wade also thanks to a pair of positive achievements. 23 hits from the penalty (out of 24) and 24 points in the last quarter are club records. Dwayne actually saved the game, in which “Miami” conceded 12 points 8 minutes before the siren.



TEAM OF THE WEEK

Not in vain, the guys from “Toronto ” - Chris Bosch (player), Sam Mitchell (coach) and Italian Andrea Bargnani (beginner) - raked all individual prizes in January in the East. The Canadian club confidently took off on a leading position in the Atlantic division and thanks to three consecutive victories last week left far behind New Jersey pursuers. “Incredible!” Exclaimed the Spaniard Jose Calderon, who took place in the starting five “dinosaurs.” “We began to play much better, because we felt like a team!” And maybe also because all of Europe is rooting for them.

LEGIONARY OF THE WEEK

Utah doesn't have injured Carlos Boozer? You think! But there is Mehmet Okur , calmly taking up the position of leader. Last week, Memo almost single-handedly dealt with “San Antonio”, “Phoenix” and “Chicago”. The average performance of a Turk is 26.7 points, 9.3 rebounds and many key goals.

CONFUSES OF THE WEEK

The ball at the meeting of “New York” with “Charlotte” on Wednesday was clearly tired. And lay down to rest on the ring after a throw of Channing Fry.



TOPIC OF THE WEEK

The first place in the league scorers list with an average score of 31.2 points, the huge fan popularity and success of “Denver”, located in the playoff zone, was not enough to include Carmelo Anthony in the list of West All-Stars reservists . The head coaches of the league clubs, who called the substitutes, recalled Melo participating in a fight in New York, which cost the forward of the 15-match disqualification. It’s especially disappointing that a year ago Anthony also didn’t make it to the All-Star Game, although he was gaining 26.0 points per game by that time.

“Life is unfair,” Melo said woefully. Although it’s too early to kill - NBA commissioner David Stern can still include a basketball player in the squad instead of injured Yao Ming or Carlos Boozer. If this does not happen, Anthony will become the record holder for success among the losers of the "all-star" selection. While the first line is kept by World Bee. Free from San Diego, which in 1978 did not help 28.7 points.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“Mike and I haven’t talked about this yet, but I will be happy if Dirk comes out at the start,” Steve Nash talks about how the Phoenix and West team coach Mike D'Antoni will determine the starting five player to replace Yao Ming. Observers agree that D'Anthony will leave Nash on the bench to release him to replace at the same time with teammates Sean Marion and Amar Staudemair. True, if the damage to Nash’s shoulder is serious, the question will be removed by itself.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

February 4, 2007. New Jersey - Atlanta. How little is needed for happiness! Just win - so rare this season. And so spectacular: the hero of the day “baby” Tyrone Liu, who came from afar in the last minute of overtime, teammates almost crushed.



MOMENT OF THE WEEK

360 for the second week in a row. And again, not without curiosity: Kobe Bryant difficult to score difficult balls much easier than trivial ...



FIGURES OF THE WEEK

The 16 -time Boston NBA champion set a club record by losing 14 games in a row. There is nothing to add to this.

WAITING FOR THE WEEK

Still, I wonder if Carmelo Anthony will be allowed to play with all the stars. We are waiting for the words of Stern.

On Wednesday, “New Jersey” will try to avenge “Atlanta” for an offensive Sunday defeat in overtime, when Tyrone’s “three-ruble note” was voiced by the final siren, and “Cleveland”, offended by Wade and Miami, will think of the vendetta on Friday. And the latest manifestation of revenge will be the visit of “Portland” to “Washington”. Remember that Gilbert Arenas promised February 11 to ship the “fifty dollars” to the team of Nate Macmillan, who participated in the expulsion of Gil from the US team?

Nikolai TSYNKEVICH