They each showed it in different ways.
Chuck Hayes growled, grumbled, shoved and whacked Kevin Garnett like a piñata. Candy did not emerge from a tattered Big Ticket. Just a blowout Rockets win.
KG was the one getting punked for a change.
Chase Budinger, who sprained his ankle in Sunday's heart-stopping victory, flushed three emphatic dunks weeks earlier against the New Jersey Nets. He skied beyond the lowered expectations en route to a rim that seemed higher and long odds that threatened to reach the clouds and even outer space.
A blonde-haired kid once maligned for not doing enough created his own fraternity: Why Not Slamma Jamma Again?
Courtney Lee, afforded a larger role since the trades that jettisoned Shane Battier and Aaron Brooks, pulled up and interrupted his team's woeful shooting performance in L.A. to send a message to the rested Clippers: Instead of folding the tent, we'll look for more stakes to keep it from blowing away in the Memphis Grizzlies' backdraft.
Kyle Lowry flew past Devin Harris and the rest of the problematic, hated Utah Jazz in Sunday's 110-108 triumph. He reco ...
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