NBA All Star Weekend - O'Neal's

Picked for his thirteenth All-Star Game in succession, Shaq' O'Neal is only the fifth player in history to achieve that number. The fans voted him in at No.4 after Yao Ming, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James.

O'Neal stated that every new All Star game was more special than the one before. It might have something to do with his age - at 34 he must know the writing is on the wall.

O'Neal was the MVP in 2004, and has averaged 17.6 points, 8.6 rebounds in these games.

All Star weekend should be a blast.

Miami Turn Up Heat On Pistons

Finally Miami, with Wade at the helm, beat one of the top teams - in the Detroit Pistons. He scored the last seventeen points in a close game, which included the winner with only a couple of seconds left to play. The final score was 100-98.

The Miami Heat have habitually struggled agains the best teams. They are now 1-7 against the league's four top teams.

Trailing 90-83 with 4.30 minutes remaining, Wade came in to the picture with seventeen consecutive points - a franchise record. He made his final seven shots and scored twenty-eight points in the second half.

Shaq also did his part, keeping Miami in the game early on and finishing with a season-high of thirty-one points.

The Pistons have lost three of their last five games but they still have best record in the NBA at 41-9.

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Finally Miami, with Wade at the helm, beat one of the top teams - in the Detroit Pistons. He scored the last seventeen points in a close game, which included the winner with only a couple of seconds left to play. The final score was 100-98.

The Miami Heat have habitually struggled agains the best teams. They are now 1-7 against the league's four top teams.

Trailing 90-83 with 4.30 minutes remaining, Wade came in to the picture with seventeen consecutive points - a franchise record. He made his final seven shots and scored twenty-eight points in the second half.

Shaq also did his part, keeping Miami in the game early on and finishing with a season-high of thirty-one points.

The Pistons have lost three of their last five games but they still have best record in the NBA at 41-9.

Go toNBA Championship betting to wager on your favorite team.

Bulls Kneel Before Kings

Peja Stojakovic may be gone but the Sacramento Kings still won convincingly against the Chicago Bulls, with a lot of help from Kevin Martin who scored twenty-three points in the first half.

Bibby scored twenty points, Abdur-Rahim got himself fifteen and Brad Miller had eleven for Sacramento, who have now won seven consecutive games at home after a poor start to the season.

Martin made three three-pointers and helped to stifle the hot-shooting Ben Gordon to just a couple of points, as Sacramento took a nineteen point lead into the half.

The void left by the departure of Stojakovic appears to have been filled - for now. Martin has made 64% of his three-pointers, hitting four in this game

The Kings are 4-3 since bringing in Artest, with better defensive organisation and have held six of seven teams under one hundred points at home.

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