| Shaquille O'Neal scored 14 points and had 16 | | | | scored 23 points and Argentinean Carlos |
| rebounds and Steve Nash contributed with 14 | | | | Delfino with 15 points. |
| assistances to take the Phoenix Suns to a | | | | |
| victory of 94-87 against the San Antonio | | | | The Sonics have lost eight of their last nine |
| Spurs. | | | | games and everything points the team is |
| | | | condemned to finish with the worst record in |
| In the last three minutes of the game Phoenix | | | | the history. |
| had much more points overall than the Spurs | | | | |
| but O'Neal entered to wrap up the score | | | | Then we have the Philadelphia 76ers' victory |
| board. O'Neal became the third player in the | | | | over the Bucks a final score of 119-97. |
| NBA along with Kareem-Abdul Jabaar and Hakeem | | | | Thaddeus Young scored 22 points while Samuel |
| Olajuwon to score 26,000 points and to block | | | | Dalembert added 18 points and 10 rebounds. |
| 11,500 rebounds. | | | | Andre Miller played the first of five games |
| | | | in seven days. The 76ers' fourth repeated |
| The seven feet and an one inch basketball | | | | victory placed them on track to the game in |
| star played with all the roughness and usual | | | | Washington; the team is currently in sixth |
| power; he was even thrown over the steps of | | | | position in the Eastern Conference |
| the third row to recover a ball; nearly | | | | classification. |
| collapsing a spectator. | | | | |
| | | | Another victory was for the Detroit Pistons |
| Grant Hill scored 18 points including a | | | | that won over the Chicago Bulls with a final |
| basket from the base line only one-minute | | | | score 116-109 and a their seventh consecutive |
| remaining; the Suns showed why they needed | | | | pass to the playoffs. Pistons' Tayshaun |
| O'Neal to play with the rest of his team. | | | | Prince scored 21 points and was the lead man |
| | | | without a doubt. While the Argentinean from |
| The Argentinean Manu Ginóbili played 31:59 | | | | the Chicago Bulls Andres Nocioni played |
| minutes scoring 22 points leading the | | | | almost 29 minutes scoring a total of 10 |
| offensive of his team and recovering five | | | | points. |
| rebounds and distributing two assistances for | | | | |
| the Spurs; the French Tony Parker scored 21 | | | | And lastly but not least we have the LA |
| points and distributed five assistances and | | | | Lakers game against the Sacramento Kings. |
| recovered a pair of rebounds, while the | | | | Despite the efforts made by the Californian |
| Argentinean Fabricio Oberto played 10:26 | | | | team Kobe Bryant was not able to block his |
| minutes and scored four points while | | | | counterparts for example Beno Udrich who |
| recovering five rebounds. Another player who | | | | scored a total of 25 points including a pair |
| gave an additional boost was the Brazilian | | | | of free shots for the Kings. This is |
| Leandro Barbosa played 28:16 minutes scoring | | | | Sacramento's second consecutive win in nine |
| 10 points and recovering four repercussions. | | | | games but there are other very important |
| | | | games that will follow and especially the one |
| Meantime in Toronto, the Raptors played the | | | | on Tuesday for which there are plenty of |
| Seattle Supersonics achieving a victory of | | | | expectations. |
| 114-106 with players like Anthony Parker who | | | | |