OKC - Five-peat! Final summary

22/12/09

Oklahoma City Thunder [18-7] vs New Jersey Nets [15-10]

Big first half sets up Thunder win



OKC - 31 40 27 24 122
NJN - 22 21 26 31 100

Player of the Game: Kevin Durant



Video Highlights
Thunder playing good defense.
Flash

Harden easily gets past his defender and lays it in.
Flash

25/12/09

Grizzlies and Thunder complete trade



The changes continued at Oklahoma City today after they agreed a 4 player deal with Memphis.
They sent guard James Harden to Memphis along with center Cole Aldrich and a future 1st round draft pick.
In return they receive Grizzlies guard OJ Mayo and the expiring contract of Acie Law.
This trade is further evidence to suggest that the Thunder are lining up a big off-season.
Already this season they've offloaded Sefolosha, Collison, Maynor and DJ white for expiring contracts.


Oklahoma City
James Harden - 20 years old - SG - 13.52m - 3 years (80)
Cole Aldrich - 21 years old - C - 11.27m - 5 years (66)
2010 1st Round Draft Pick

Memphis
OJ Mayo - 22 years old - SG - 12.61m - 2 years (83)
Acie Law - 24 years old - PG - 885k - 1 year (70)

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Depth
C - Dampier, Krstic, Mullens
PF - Green, Ibaka
SF - Durant, Moon
SG - Mayo, Brown
PG - Westbrook, Cook, Law

Inactive
O'Bryant, Vujacic.

Red = expiring contract

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The main reason for the trade was maximising cap space for next season.
1 less player drafted = more cap room. Swapping Aldrich for expiring contract of Law.
Including re-signing Green, I plan to have the minimum 8 players on my roster going into free agent signing period.

Nice win over the Nets, fine stat line for Durant. I'm a little surprised to see you trade Harden as he's been playing so well for you but I like the idea of remaining competitive while setting up an opportunity to make a big offseason signing.

Trading Harden wasn't really ideal. I did want to keep the group together.
But I don't really know how much of my cap room re-signing Green will use and Aldrich wasn't seeing and game time anyway.
Again, I just have to hope some quality big men don't re-sign with their teams in the off-season.

Besides, Mayo is a good scorer.
Mayo - 24.1 ppg - 4.2 rpg - 3.9 apg - 2.1 spg
Harden - 18.1 ppg - 3.4 rpg - 2.5 apg - 2.2 spg

26/12/09

Oklahoma City Thunder [19-7] vs New York Knicks [11-15]

Green grabs triple double in Thunder romp



OKC - 20 22 45 31 118
NYK - 21 19 21 24 85

Player of the Game: Jeff Green



Video Highlights
Durant fakes out his opponent before reverse dunking.
Flash

Great triple double for Green, shame you couldn't pick up those last four blocks. Nice debut for Mayo as well.

Mayo, Durant, and Green were all amazing! They had 90 points between them! Not to discredit Westbrook though - he had a good game too.

I think you should give Acie Law some minutes.

27/12/09

Oklahoma City Thunder [20-7] vs Los Angeles Clippers [10-21]

Big second half helps Thunder overrun Clippers



OKC - 29 19 37 30 115
LAC - 32 24 24 21 101

Player of the Game: Kevin Durant



Video Highlights
Mayo makes a tough shot.
Flash

Green blocks Gordon's dunk right at the rim.
Flash

I really want to play this game, because I love this dynasty! Good wins... Although you wrote quadruple-double, it should be triple-double

I also wrote 'almost'.

29/12/09

Oklahoma City Thunder [21-7] vs Los Angeles Clippers [10-22]

Davis masterclass guides Clippers to win



OKC - 21 27 33 29 110
LAC - 24 32 43 23 122

Player of the Game: Baron Davis



Video Highlights
Green with a monster slam.
Flash

Durant finds Mayo in the opposite corner and he sinks the three.
Flash

Great comeback in the home win, they certainly returned the favour on their home floor though. If all else fails in the upcoming offseason, it looks like Durant, Green and Mayo could be a viable Big Three for you.

1/1/10

Conference Standings

Eastern Conference
1. MIA* | 24-7 | N/A | .774 | = | [8-4]
2. BOS* | 23-9 | 1.5 | .719 | +2 | [13-2]
3. DET* | 18-10 | 4.5 | .643 | +3 | [11-3]
4. CHA | 20-14 | 5.5 | .588 | -1 | [9-7]
5. NJN | 16-12 | 6.5 | .571 | -3 | [7-7]
6. ATL | 17-15 | 7.5 | .531 | +1 | [8-7]
7. WAS | 16-16 | 8.5 | .500 | +1 | [7-8]
8. MIL | 14-16 | 9.5 | .467 | +6 | [9-5]
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9. ORL | 14-15 | 9.0 | .483 | -4 | [6-7]
10. CHI | 13-17 | 10.5 | .433 | -1 | [6-9]
11. TOR | 13-17 | 10.5 | .433 | -1 | [6-8]
12. NYK | 13-16 | 10.0 | .448 | -1 | [6-8]
13. PHI | 12-22 | 13.5 | .353 | -1 | [6-10]
14. IND | 8-23 | 16.0 | .258 | +1 | [5-9]
15. CLE | 6-21 | 16.0 | .222 | -1 | [1-10]


Western Conference
1. OKC* | 21-8 | N/A | .724 | = | [10-3]
2. DAL* | 20-9 | 1.0 | .690 | +1 | [10-3]
3. PHX* | 20-9 | 1.0 | .690 | +3 | [12-2]
4. POR | 16-12 | 4.5 | .571 | = | [6-6]
5. UTA | 16-12 | 4.5 | .571 | -3 | [5-7]
6. HOU | 18-13 | 4.0 | .581 | +1 | [9-6]
7. LAL | 17-15 | 5.5 | .531 | -2 | [6-8]
8. SAS | 14-15 | 7.0 | .483 | +2 | [7-7]
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9. MIN | 13-17 | 8.5 | .433 | = | [5-8]
10. MEM | 13-18 | 9.0 | .419 | +3 | [6-7]
11. NOH | 12-17 | 9.0 | .414 | +4 | [6-7]
12. SAC | 12-18 | 9.5 | .400 | = | [5-9]
13. DEN | 12-19 | 10.0 | .387 | -5 | [4-10]
14. GSW | 10-18 | 10.5 | .357 | -3 | [3-9]
15. LAC | 11-22 | 12.0 | .333 | -1 | [5-11]

* = Division Leader

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League Leaders

Points Per Game
1. Kevin Durant - OKC - 36.1
2. Kobe Bryant - LAL - 32.4
2. Deron Williams - UTA - 32.4
4. Antawn Jamison - CLE - 28.8
5. Chris Paul - NOH - 26.7

Rebounds Per Game
1. Chris Bosh - MIA - 13.4
2. Dwight Howard - ORL - 13.2
3. Samuel Dalembert - SAC - 12.8
4. Tyrus Thomas - CHA - 12.7
4. David Lee - GSW - 12.7

Assists Per Game
1. Tyreke Evans - SAC - 10.5
2. Rajon Rondo - BOS - 10.4
3. Chris Paul - NOH - 9.7
3. Derrick Rose - CHI - 9.7
5. Jonny Flynn - MIN - 9.6

Steals Per Game
1. Kevin Durant - OKC - 3.0
2. Monta Ellis - GSW - 2.8
3. Tony Parker - SAS - 2.3
3. Rajon Rondo - BOS - 2.3
5. James Harden - MEM - 2.2

Blocks Per Game
1. Brook Lopez - NJN - 3.8
2. Andrew Bogut - MIL - 3.2
3. Roy Hibbert - IND - 3.0
3. Johan Petro - NJN - 3.0
5. Anderson Varejao - CLE - 2.9


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Awards

Players of the Month
East
Stephen Jackson - CHA
25.9 PPG - 7.6 RPG - 3.8 APG - 1.6 BPG - 1.7 SPG

West
Kevin Durant - OKC
39.3 PPG - 6.4 RPG - 2.5 APG - 1.4 BPG - 3.6 SPG

Rookies of the Month
East
John Wall - WAS
16.4 PPG - 2.5 RPG - 5.7 APG - 1.3 BPG - 1.6 SPG

West
Blake Griffin - LAC
13.2 PPG - 10.9 RPG - 1.1 APG - 1.5 BPG - 1.8 SPG


MVP Candidates
Kevin Durant - 36.1 PPG - 5.9 RPG - 2.1 APG - 1.5 BPG - 3.0 SPG
Kobe Bryant - 32.4 PPG - 4.4 RPG - 4.5 APG - 1.4 BPG - 1.9 SPG
LeBron James - 24.5 PPG - 5.8 RPG - 6.7 APG - 2.1 BPG - 1.7 SPG
Stephen Jackson - 26.3 PPG - 7.4 RPG - 3.6 APG - 1.7 BPG - 1.7 SPG
Chris Bosh - 22.8 PPG - 13.4 RPG - 1.2 APG - 2.2 BPG - 1.4 SPG


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Injury News

Charlotte
29/12/09 - Desagana Diop - Sprained Wrist - Day-to-day

Dallas
29/12/09 - Jason Terry - Sore Achilles Tendon - Day-to-day

Memphis
19/12/09 - Hasheem Thabeet - Hyper-Extended Knee - 2 weeks

New Orleans
25/12/09 - Quincy Pondexter - Bone Spur in his Foot - 2 weeks

Orlando
08/12/09 - Rashard Lewis - Bone Spur in his Ankle - Day-to-day

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Transactions

02/12/09 - Atlanta sign R.Morris
26/12/09 - Oklahoma City trades J.Harden, C.Aldrich and 1st Round pick to Memphis for O.Mayo and A.Law.

Great comeback in the home win, they certainly returned the favour on their home floor though. If all else fails in the upcoming offseason, it looks like Durant, Green and Mayo could be a viable Big Three for you.

Mayo is the new Roy.

The only downside to trading for Mayo is having to learn what shots he can make and which he can't. (Hence him 45-96 shooting so far.)

Whew... what confuses me is Antawn scoring 29 per game. Otherwise you are going very well. Also Mayo trade worked out well.

Tough competition at the top this year. Good to see Durant get POTM and atop the MVP Candidates.

Yeah it's great. I'm heading to Phoenix next, so there could be a three-way tie at the top soon.

2/1/10

Oklahoma City Thunder [21-8] vs Phoenix Suns [20-9]

Thunder win battle of conference leaders



OKC - 34 23 35 33 125
PHX - 29 28 29 28 114

Player of the Game: Jeff Green



Video Highlights
Durant dunks over Lopez.
Flash

Mayo hits a wide open three.
Flash

Good to see you come out on top. Big Three getting the job done once again.

5/1/10

Oklahoma City Thunder [22-8] vs Boston Celtics [23-10]

Thunder have 7 players in double figures as they beat Celtics



OKC - 30 36 37 28 131
BOS - 20 23 34 32 109

Player of the Game: Russell Westbrook



Video Highlights
Brown blocks Perkins.
Flash

Westbrook showing off his aerial abilities.
Flash

Westbrook sinking an open three.
Flash

Devin Harris's face: Priceless

7/1/09

Oklahoma City Thunder [23-8] vs Charlotte Bobcats [21-14]

Thunder give up big lead, then lose in overtime



OKC - 28 40 29 22 16 135
CHA - 34 30 16 39 17 136

Player of the Game: Kevin Durant



Video Highlights
Mayo finds space and dunks.
Flash

Westbrook dunks to tie the game at 119-119 and send it into overtime.
Flash

Ouch, tough loss Phil! But Mayo and KD were great.

A really odd starting line-up for the Bobcats. Jackson at PF, Diaw at SF, Wallace at SG.. Tough loss nevertheless.

Yeah, that's the lineup they have in my dynasty Martti. Like I've said before, that's how much the sim engine in Live 10 sucks.

Tough loss in OT though, especially when you gave up a big lead.