Thursday News and Notes

Thursday, April 27,
2006
  

Your four-day pass starts out with a Wise Guy day winner (and an additional
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including a Wise Guy
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Wednesday. It’s now a quiet 5-0 NBA run
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NBA

·       
New Jersey
has gone under 17-3 road after failing to cover 2-of-3

·       
Miami
is 4-16 this year to teams that attempt 18 or more three points shots per game

·       
LA Clippers are 8-21 this year after consecutive
games as a favorite

 

MLB

·       
Colorado
is 2-18 on the road the last two years versus pitchers who walk 1.75 or fewer
per game -14.6 units

·       
Philadelphia
is 0-4 with Lieber -5.1. His ERA is 7.99

·       
Washington-St. Louis has gone over 9-2 last
three years

·       
Minnesota
over 11-of-14

·       
Toronto
over 8-0 at night this year

 

NBA

Nets-Pacers

Newark Star Ledger

The Pacers’ injury toll mounted when Stephen Jackson was
added to the list of banged-up players, a list that already included Peja Stojakovic and Jamaal
Tinsley. Jackson jammed his right
pinkie while fouling out of Game 2 on Tuesday, and had X-rays taken yesterday.
The X-rays were negative and Jackson
will almost certainly play tonight, but he could not shoot yesterday in
practice and there is some worry about his level of effectiveness. “He was
really sore and couldn’t shoot the ball,” Pacers coach Rick Carlisle
said. “He’ll get treatment and we’ll see where he is. I know he’s going to
play, because he plays. But we’re concerned about it because it is his shooting
hand.” Carlisle also said Tinsley, who returned form a sore right Achilles’ tendon to play in Game
2, is very sore and is questionable for tonight. Meanwhile Stojakovic,
whose swollen right knee kept him in street clothes for Game 2, did not
practice and remains uncertain for tonight, though he claimed to “believe,” he’ll
play.

Heat-Bulls

Chicago.com

Not too long ago, the Chicago Bulls owned the NBA’s
stingiest defense. And then, the playoffs began. A Bulls team that led the
league in field-goal percentage defense during the regular season has allowed
the Miami Heat to shoot 50.3 percent, and, no shocker, trails 2-0 as this
first-round playoff series shifts to Chicago
for Games 3 and 4 Thursday and Sunday. Center Alonzo Mourning is questionable
with a torn calf muscle—an injury he sustained in an 82-73 loss at Detroit
on March 22. Skiles expects Bulls F Malik Allen, bothered by back spasms, to be available for
Game 3.

Clippers-Nuggets

Sports Illustrated/CNN

The Denver Nuggets know they can win without Kenyon Martin.They’ve gone 29-9 in games he’s missed due to injury
since signing a seven-year, $93 million contract two years ago, including 19-6
this season, when his surgically repaired left knee limited him to a career-low
56 games and drove to Nuggets to hold him out of the regular season finale, as
well.

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