Christmas B-Ball

Bulls @ Knicks: The Christmas-colored uniforms were a nice touch. Also nice, keeping the Bulls from scoring for something like seven, eight straight minutes. Knicks ended up taking it with a score of 103-95. The Bulls just fell apart there at the end, it seemed.

Incidentally, the Magic used their magic on the Celtics and managed to keep Boston down for a loss. That was a bit surprising and definitely intense. (They won over the Celtics 86-78)

Also, Lakers-Heat -- I haven't watched basketball long, but LeBron James' big thing about choosing his team, which dominated ESPN disproportinately and made it a pain to check my baseball scores last summer, have made it so that I can't stand Miami. They ended up beating the Lakers 96-80.

Boston Celtics @ New York Knicks

That was one hell of an intense game. Apparently a Celtic said it wasn't a rivalry, but that was a daaaaaamn good game. 118-116 with 0.4 seconds left, after the Celtics playing aggressive catchup to the Knicks at every turn, and I believe it was Stoudemire that threw a THREE POINT SHOT...

The ball left his hands after time ran out. He missed it by a fraction of a second.

It was agony, elation, and crushing, crushing agony.

What a good game.

Wow.

First time I really paid attention to a basketball game and wow, what a game.