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This is dedicated to TBSN regular Linda on her special day, click here.

(StanNote: non-Rhapsody subscribers, are you only getting 30 seconds of this? They used to give 25 freeplays a month, have they stopped that?)

And since it seems to be available in concert form now, here’s this (dedicated to Bill Bennet and Charles Barkley (and Doc Steech? ) ?) -

This post/song is dedicated to the Minnesotta Lakers, whom are going up against my 2nd. choice team in the NBA, the New Orleans Jazz -

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It’s like a couple of basketball games.

In the 5th. game of the Rockets/Jazz matchup, there was a point when I knew the game was over and we had won (I’m more of a Rockets fan than a Jazz fan.) We were over 20 points up and there were only 2 minutes left in the game.

In the 6th. game, that point (for me) was also reached around when there was only 2 minutes left in the game and the (formerly New Orleans) Jazz were up by over 20 points. I knew at that point that the series was over.

For Hillary, it’s 2 minutes left in the game, and you’re over 20 points down.

“No, I’m Kareem Abdul-Jabbar!”

*WE’RE 21!*

The “Chronic” ™ -
Rockets make history with No. 21
The Rockets have sole ownership of the NBA’s second-longest win streak after an 89-80 win over Charlotte. They now lead their division.

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from the “Chronic” ™ -

Rockets struggle to 20th consecutive win
Winning streak now second longest in NBA history
 

By JONATHAN FEIGEN
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle

ATLANTA – The Rockets fell into hugs. Exhausted. Relieved. Triumphant again.

It was “ugly,” they said later, but they loved it for its flaws, as if they stared into the brink of the streak’s end, almost daring that fate to finally catch them, and then denied inevitability again to take their place with only two other teams in NBA history.

The Rockets struggled as they rarely have in the past six weeks, but with a night full of defense and a late run, they pushed their winning streak to 20 consecutive games Monday with an 83-75 triumph over the Atlanta Hawks.

They tied the 1970-71 Milwaukee Bucks for the second-longest streak in NBA history, a stretch of uninterrupted victories bettered only by the 33-game run of the Los Angeles Lakers the year after the Bucks’ run.

“It’s unbelievable, 20 in a row, especially on this level,” Tracy McGrady said after scoring 28 points to lead the Rockets, propping up their misfiring offense in the second half. “I can’t even explain it. You got to factor in back-to-backs. You’re not shooting the ball particularly well some nights. Offense is not going to be there. Just so many things you can factor in. But 20 games to come out with victories, it’s unbelievable.”  … 

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Brave Combo did the theme music for CBS Sports
basketball for Jan 19, 2008 -

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