Results - Christmas Day Clash of the Titans!

Well, David Stern gave NBA fans the world over the perfect Christmas gift this year - a double-header clash of the titans with Shaq's Miami Heat going up against what is now officially Kobe's Lakers. Whatever he had against his former team, the jolly giant looked past it and gave his fans in L.A. a special Christmas treat by handing out presents with his Shaq-A Clause organisation. Anyway. The main point was the game. Shaq took the court to roof-raising cheers from the admiring crowd at the Staples Center. Kobe Bryant's season high 42 points were not enough to rescuse the depleated Lakers from defeat at the hands of Shaq and Dwayne Wade. In a thrilling game that went into overtime, Dwayne Wade put up 29 points on the scoreboard as Shaq fouled out in the fourth quarter. In the end though, Kobe Bryant missed a potentially game-tying 3.pointer in overtime, and Miami was able to secure the 104-102 win. As for interaction between the players, Shaq and Kobe had a cold greeting mid-court before the game kicked-off. Each acknowledged the other with a quick nod, and Shaq went as far to give Kobe a pat on the back. With all Shaq's talk about his being a 'brick wall' to Kobe's 'Corvette' and that 'everyone knows what happens when a Corvette hits a brick wall' I was expecting slightly more than a very cold greeting. But after the Indiana-Detroit incident, everyone's been careful not to let situations exacerbate into those kinds of proportions. Yay. Good thing too or else Kobe would've been suspended, a luxury Lakers can hardly afford right now.

Um...I don't exactly know what happened with the Indiana-Detroit game...hopefully you all caught that anyway and don't need my play-for-play rundown!

Well, hope you all enjoyed the games...let the 2nd half off the season begin!

Gayatri.