Dwyane Wade scored 24 points before taking the fourth quarter off, and the Miami Heat held Washington without a field goal for 9 minutes in the second half on the way to an easy 97-77 victory over the Wizards on Friday night. Michael Beasley scored 19 points for Miami (5-4), which needed 20 games to hit the five-win mark last season.
Raymond Felton scored 23 points, Gerald Wallace added 22 and Charlotte Bobcats won a matchup of undermanned teams, holding off the Utah Jazz 104-96 on Friday night. While the Bobcats played without top scorer Jason Richardson (knee), the Jazz were without point guard Deron Williams (ankle), sixth-man Andrei Kirilenko (finger) and center Mehmet Okur, who is with his sick father in Turkey.
Donnie Walsh is against buyouts and Stephon Marbury is opposed to taking one. So even though the two met Thursday, neither gave an indication that anything happened to speed up Marbury’s long goodbye from the New York Knicks. The New York Post reported Friday that Walsh, the team president, and Marbury met Thursday at the team’s practice facility for preliminary discussions about a buyout.
Donnie Walsh is against buyouts and Stephon Marbury is opposed to taking one. So even though the two met Thursday, neither gave an indication that anything happened to speed up Marbury’s long goodbye from the New York Knicks. The New York Post reported Friday that Walsh, the team president, and Marbury met Thursday at the team’s practice facility for preliminary discussions about a buyout.