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Now the part of my commissioner's duties that I like the least, assessing penalty points. Lateness kills leagues and it won't be tolerated in the SABL. However, please let me know ASAP if I've made an error. Here's the current tally:

4 points for no results and no instructions for Feb. 11, Richmond vs. Bakersfield

4 points for no results and no instructions for Feb. 13, Richmond vs. Cave Creek

Remember, when you are two weeks late, you can get penalty points. Make sure you send out your instructions. Make sure you send out your results. Make sure you contact the opposing coach to ask why they are late with results or instructions. Let me know if mitigating circumstances, such as a death in the family or vacations, are gonna make your late. If you do all of these things, you won't get penalty points.

Holcomb wins game 1, 115-90. Game was never in doubt, as Holcomb got their running game in full gear early. Jordan had 31, Billups 34, Wallace 11 and
15 boards, Williams 15 and 18 assists. Jamison had 25 to lead 4 Chapel Hill players in double figures.

Game 2: See Saw game. Holcomb wins 119-109. Billups goes for 32, Jordan 26, and Williams 28 and 10 assists. Jamison has 35 to lead 6 Jams playes in double figures.

Game 3:Close game all the way. Holcomb wins 108-104Billups has 28, Jordan
22 for Holcomb. Jamison has another solid night to lead Chapel Hill with 25

Game 1: Holcomb fights off a Louisiana 4th quarter rally to win 118-107.
Mashburn has 24 for Louisiana. Billups leads Holcomb with 30, Jordan has 25, Robinson 20.

Game 2: Louisiana leads at half by 1. Holcomb takes the lead in the 3rd and never gives it back.Mashburn again leads Louisiana with 27. Billups goes for 38. Jordan has 24 and Williams 22. Holcomb wins 123-112.

Game 3:Louisiana leads at half by 3, but Holcomb comes out after the half and outscores them 35-13 in the third to coast to an easy 125-99 win.Walker led 6 Louisiana players in double figures with 21. Jordan hit for 41, Billups 27, and Williams 20 and 18 assists. Wallace had 59 rebounds in the series. (19-19-21).

Louisiana wins Game 1 by 20, 104-84. Iverson went for 42, but none else did much. Mashburn with 25 and Harpring had 26 to lead Louisiana to the easy win.
Game 2:Finney outscores Louisiana 33-23 in the 4th to win a tight game 107-95. Iverson had 41 for Finney. Reggie Miller led 6 Louisiana players in double figures with 16.
Game 3:Best game of the series. Harpring scores with 3 seconds left to put the game in overtime. Finney gets off quick in OT and wins 100-92. Iverson has 25,, Artest 20 for Finney. Harpring 28, Mashburn 22 for Louisiana.

John Stockton, Tim Duncan and Jason Kidd all registered double-doubles as the Aces rolled past the Blades. Stockton had 17 points and 17 assists, Duncan scored 20 points and pulled down 12 rebounds, Kidd added 16 points and 10 rebounds. Shaq scored 27 points to lead the Blades.

This was a one point game at halftime, and the Aces came to life in the second half to win by 12. Kobe Bryant led the Aces with 33 points, followed by Tim Duncan with 22 points and 14 boards, and Jason Kidd dished out 8 assists to go along with his 16 points. For Bakersfield Gordan Giricek netted 21 points, including 5-11 shooting from behind the 3 point stripe. Elton Brand added 17 points and 14 boards.

A wire to wire steamrolling by the well oiled St. Lucie machine, even with Tim Duncan in foul trouble for the whole game. Kidd led the Aces with 32 points and Kobe scored 29. For the Blades, Shaq had 24 points and 9 rebounds and Rahim put home 13 points and grabbed 9 rebounds.

Game 1: Holcomb wins low scoring game , 89-79. Jordan leads Holcomb with 25, Terry has 22 for New Orleans.
Game 2: Holcomb wins 99-81, leading entire game. Jordan has 20, Wallace 16 and 18 boards. Harrington leads New Orleans with 19.
Game 3:Holcomb wins 102-81. Williams has 24 and Billups 20 for Holcomb.
Stoudemire 24, Nash 21 for New Orleans

Louisiana 109
Bakersfield 106
Mash and Harpring score 28 each

Louisiana 98
Bakersfield 114
Shaq scores 24 and pulls down 14 boards

Louisiana 108
Bakersfield 101
Mash and Harpring combine for 49

LA 101
Finney 86
Iverson held to 21

LA 93
Finney 108
Iverson held to 19; but Jackson scores 24

LA 98
Finney 115
Iverson explodes for 51

LA 95
Holcomb 102
Jordon scores 29

LA 104
Holcomb 100
Mash and Harpring each with 27

LA 82
Holcomb 104
Jordon scores 36

The Chapel Hill Jams and the Louisiana Buzz split a four game series. The Jams won 101 - 89 and 104 - 101 while the Buzz took games 2 and 3 98 - 97 and 128 - 114. Mashburn had the highest scoring game in the series with 29 points in game 3.

The Nats overcome 39% shooting by canning 39-48 Ft and down Davenport, 113-84. The Nats committed a mere 5 turnovers to 24 for the Dazzlers, who shot 52% from the floor. Arenas paced 7 Nats in double figures with 26. hudson had 22 for Davenport.

McLean dominated game 2 and won 112-81. The Dazzlers again had 24 turnovers, while the Nats converted 37-43 FT. Stackhouse topped 6 Nats in twin digits with 28 points. mo Pete had 22 for Davenport.

Mclean cruises, 97-67, in game 3. Arenas leads the way with 21 points. Nats convert 32-36 FT compared to 5-5 for Davenport.

In McLean, the Nats looked rusty in dropping the first game to the Dazzlers. Indeed, they looked rusty for most of the second game, too. But they wound up taking two out of three by scores of 106-117, 105-100, and 101-76. Stackhouse led the Nats in scoring in all three games, averaging 24.3. Peterson and Hudson combined for 51 points in game one, and Peterson led the Dazzlers with 23 in game two and 15 in game three.

Mark this one as the game of the year. Cave Creek enters the 4th quarter trailing 90-81. Coach Mark Long decides to enact the press with about 7 minutes left and the game became Cave Creek's at that point. With a few seconds remaining, coach Longs team, tailing 118-116 calls a 3 pointer for Jalen Rose. He misses the shot but Dampier rips the rebound, scores, and is fouled. He sinks the free throw with 1 second and a last second desperation shot by Akron is no good.

Akron outshoots Cave Creek 54% to 51%, Akron goes 10-22 from 3 point land while Cave Creek goes 2-10. Akron has 16 more rebounds, 12 more assists an still looses. Cave Creek did make 10 more free throw shots than Akron even attempted.

7 Cave Creek players score in doubld figures led by Pierce's 28. Akron is led by Garnett's 22 points and 17 rebounds in a losing effort.

Game One
Roosters win 86-79 behind Amare and excellent three point shooting. Iverson scores 36.

Game Two
Finney defeats New Orleans 83-79. Iverson "only" hits for 25. Amare had a double-double with 23 points and 17 boards. He was only 5-11 from the free throw line.

Game Three
Finney wins a close one 78-77. The Answer pumped in 39 points. Amare had another double-double with 15 points and a season high 25 boards. However, he only made 5 of 13 free throws.

Holcomb/Akron
Holcomb behind Michael Jordan has a 9 pt lead going into the 4th. Akron comes back and goes up by two on a Szcserbiak jumper with 15 seconds left.
Holcomb immediately comes down and scores on a drive by Jordan. Garnett misses at the buzzer, sending the game to overtime. Akron takes the early lead only to watch Holcomb come back and tie it again on twoWilliamson free throws with 5 seconds left to send it into another overtime. Holcomb takes the early lead and never lets up to win the game, finally, 126-121. Jordan led all scorers with 40 and 10 boards, Williams has 21 and 13 assists, and Wallace was huge on the boards with 23. Allen led Akron with 28, Garnett had 26 and 18 boards, and Szcserbiak had 21.

Finney/Akron
Akron wins another OT thriller 113-109
Akron had an 8 pt lead going into the fourth, but Finney tied it on a shot by Lorenzon Wright with 12 seconds left to put it in OT. Allen took over in the OT to lead Akron to the win. Iverson had 33 for Finney,Christie had 21.
Allen had 28, Szcserbiak 22, and Ilgauskas 20 for Akron.

River City overcomes a 36 point 12 rebound effort by R. Lewis, to win 100-99. Quad City prevails 108-86 behind 31 from Lewis and 20 from Posey. C. Butler 25 for Riv. Qc wins round 3, 99-85. Lewis again leads all scorers with 31. Lewis again scores 31 as Rimrockers roll 96-81... taking 3 of 4 at home.

Davenport Dazzler Coach Kevin Feeney has caught this Amazing change that came with the new Strat basketball computer game patch. Of course, the game company didn't bother to tell us about this change in it's patch notes:

The game renames league games files by date. Sounds good, right? It isn't. Let me give you an example:

In our schedule this year, Games 1, 2 & 3 on Feb. 2 are Iowa at River City. The game will save Game 1 of this series as 200304X IOW@RIV 2-2.gfl. It will also save Game 2 as 200304X IOW@RIV 2-2.gfl. And it will save Game 3 as 200304X IOW@RIV 2-2.gfl.

What this means is that if you have a three- or four-game series, it will overwrite all the games until you only have the last game in the series on your hard drive. And that means you won't be able to send me or your opponent three game files for that three game series, 'cause you only have one game file. And I must have the game files so I can import your results into our official league database - my computer.

OK, I can fix this next year by spending even more hours devising a new type of schedule to get around it, but for this year, we are gonna have to do this:

AFTER YOU FINISH EACH INDIVIDUAL GAME OF YOUR SERIES, STOP AND RENAME THE GAME FILE.

If you do this faithfully, there will be no problems. If you don't, I'll have to manually create the won-lost result for you here on my computer, the official SABL database. There will be no other alternative.

Davenport overcomes 20 turnovers to win game 1 91-83. Game 2 also to the Dazzlers 97-91.

Holcomb wins 106-102. Brooklyn had a 1 point lead with less than a minute to go. Gasol missed two free throws and Brooklyn threw the ball away twice to allow Holcomb to come back and take the win. Gasol had 31 to lead Brooklyn. Jordan had 37 for Holcomb. Wallace had 11 points and 17 rebounds.
Holcomb outrebounded Brooklyn 55 to 26.

Quad city was assessed a technical in the 1st 6 seconds of the game. Okur then missed 2 ft and the rimrockers never recovered. falling to NO.

Davenport edged the Jams 102 - 98 despite Jamison's 31 points. Davenport led most of the game and withstood a 4th quarter Chapel Hill Rally. Davenport hit 13 of 25 behind the arc.

Rimrockers score 60 in the 2nd half and defeat Louisiana, 107-95. Lewis had 23 points and 9 rebounds and Desmond mason 21 points and 10 rebounds. Masburn had 21 points for La.

Holcomb Heat Coach Charlie Dillingham is Finney Longhorns Coach Doug Dillingham's father. All the games for both Finney and Holcomb are being played on Charlie's computer. So, send all Finney/Holcomb instructions and results to Charlie Dillingham's Holcomb email.

The Renegades blistered the Jams for 68 2nd half points en route to a 128-112 win. They posted 7 in double figures including Fizer (24 points in 18 minutes) and Juan Dixon (17 points in 15 minutes. Houston also had 24. Jamison (23) and Eddie Jones (22) paced the Jams.

The Aces went on a 10-0 run midway through the third quarter and posted a 116-96 win over River City.

Thanks to a heads-up from that Amazing Kevin Feeney of the Davenport Dazzlers, we know that Strat-O-Matic has the patch up.

Download this patch immediately and run it. It's at the top of the home page of the Strat-O-Matic Game Company's website, http://www.strat-o-matic.com

It fixes a lot of minor problems, including the big early fatigue bug-a-boo. Actually, that's a major problem.

It also adds back in the Neutral Court option, but we will not use that this year during the regular season. Since we started by playing as the AWAY team, we will finish that way. However, in the playoffs, we will revert to the Neutral Court option.

If you have any problems patching the game or if your game gives you problems after you patch it, I will be emailing a new league file ASAP. However, this league file includes our March trades, so you need to get your February games played ASAP.

With all teams having many games under their belts now, early divisional races are shaping up.

In the North, it's still anyone's game, with only 6.5 games separating the top team, Iowa, from the last place one, Brooklyn. In the North, River City is the only team over .500, while in the South, St. Lucie is already 13.5 games ahead of defending World Champion Galactic. In the West, Cave Creek is in first, but surging Bakersfield, Holcomb and Finney are making that anyone's game, too.

Holcomb's Ben Wallace leads in boards with 14.7 rebounds per game. If that high number holds up, it will a new SABL record, eclipsing Dennis Rodman's mark of 13.6 rpg, set with the 1994-95 Arizona Outlaws.

St. Lucie's Tim Duncan leads in FG % with .607 and blocks with 3.4 per game, while Akron's Darrell Armstrong is shooting .960 from the FT line. Chapel Hill's Derek Anderson leads from three-point land with a .530 PCT, and Holcomb's Jason Williams leads in assists at 11.2 apg. St. Lucie's Jason Kidd leads in steals with 2.5 per game. The Aces Kobe Bryant leads in defensive stops with 72.

Still leading the league in scoring is St. Lucie at 123.9 ppg. The leading defense is Finney, allowing only 94.4 ppg.

Galactic was lead by Payton with 23 and 13 assists. Pippen had 21 with 10 rebs and 4 assists. Grant Hill added 15 points 6 rebs and 3 assists in 15 minutes of action. Bettendorf was lead in scoring by Gooden with 19. Druids made 10-25 3's(Ward 5-12).

Galactic had 7 men in double figures lead by Payton with 31, 5 rebs and 8 assists. Marshall had 11 and 13 rebs. River City was lead in scoring by Houston but was held to 18(on 6-17 shooting). Chandler had 8 with 13 rebs in 22 mins.

Galactic shot 62% from the field and had 8 men in double figures lead by Donyell Marshall with 21 and 8 rebs in 24 minutes of action. Cassell added 15 and 12 assists in 27 mins. Tri-City was lead by Ricky Davis with 29. Payton held Marbury to 18 on 8-20 shooting.

Holcomb led by Michael Jordan's 34 points win easily at the Eastern Parkway Arena in Brooklyn.

Iverson with 27pts, Artest 21 and Ratliff's 11 rebounds and 4 blocks lead the Longhorns over the Tigers. Pau Gasol led Brooklyn with 19 pts, and 10 reb.

Finney swept the Chapel Hill Jams 94 - 86, 97 - 87, 98 - 88. Amazingly similar scores, as each game was marked by great Longhorn defense. The Jams shot 40%, 32% and 37% trying to cope with Artest, Christie and company. Iverson led the offense (of course).

In a rare romp. the Chapel Hill Jams defeated River City 117 - 90 as 7 Jams were in double figures.

Due to computer problems, all TriCity Blackhawk, Quad City Rimrocker, River City Renegades and Davenport Dazzler games are being played on Davenport Dazzler Coach Kevin Feeney's computer this season.

AMARE scores 23. Ricky Davis leads Tri-City with 27 points. Jason Terry has 10 assists for New Orleans.

Richard is a good friend of Cave Creek Coach Mark Long. They live close to each other and look forward to playing a lot of face-to-face games.

Please send all Iowa game results, files and instructions to Richard, effective immediately. MAKE SURE YOU INCLUDE "Strat basketball" IN THE SUBJECTS OF YOUR EMAILS TO RICHARD OR HE WILL NOT GET THEM. He gets hundreds of emails every day. This will help him sort them out.

Richard Grossman, 24668 North 75th Way, Scottsdale, AZ 85255. Phone: 216-287-3780. Email: rgross8169@cox.net

Welcome to the SABL, Richard, where you are free to be the best that you can be! Let's all send a welcome email to Richard!

Bakersfield outscored River City 27 to 15 in the fourth period but had fallen too far behind to catch the Renegades as the Blades lost a 108-103 decision. The tale of this game were the River City sharpshooters who were 10-22 from three point range, while Bakersfield was only 3 of 15 from behind the stripe.

Allan Houston led the way for River City with 27 points on 9-14 from the field and 4-7 from three point range. Caron Butler scored 23 on 8 of 15 shooting, and Jon Barry knocked down 3 of 4 three pointers. For Bakersfield Shaq powered home 19 points and collected 9 rebounds and Abdur Rahim put home 17 and grabbed 11 boards.

Brooklyn outscored Bakersfield 34 to 25 in the fourth quarter as they pulled out a 103 to 100 victory at Bakersfield. A couple of 3 pointers by Shandon Anderson in the last 3 minutes really gave the Tigers a boost.

In an exciting finish, with 5 seconds left and the score 103-100 Brooklyn, Mike Miller travelled and turned the ball over. Then as the Bakersfield fans started for the exits, Miller subsequently stole the inbounds pass and set Brent Barry up for a game tying three pointer, however the horn sounded before Barry could get the shot off, ending the game. Pau Gasol led the Tigers with 23 points and 9 boards, and Kenyon Martin added 20 and 8. Cuttino Mobley shredded the cords for 18 points and Rod Strickland dropped down 9 assists. For the Blades, Abdur-Rahim was high scorer with 19, and Shaq scored 18 points and added 9 rebounds.

Amare scores 37 for New Orleans and Jason Terry has 15 assists (many dazzlers) but River City prevails behind Alan Houston's 25 points

Coach Bardeen gets his first home win as his Druids use a 25-14 4th quarter run to beat New Orleans 88-78. Stephan Jackson led Bettendorf with 21 and Drew Gooden added 19.

Iowa led big most of the way, until Bakersfield started making a run in the second half. The fourth quarter was nip and tuck with both Brand and Shaq in foul trouble for the Blades. Brent Barry missed a three pointer at the buzzer that would have tied the game in an exciting finish. T-Mac came close to a triple-double with 29 points 12 rebounds and 8 assists, and Juwan Howard added 20 for the Tornadoes. For the Blades Shaq came through with 18 points and 10 rebounds, and Rahim crashed the boards for 13 rebounds.

Chauncey Billups took over a close game and scored 11 of his 15 points in the 4th quarter, pushing Bakersfield to a 108-102 win over McLean. Shaq led the Blades with 24 points and Shareef Abdur Rahim chipped in with 23. Jerry Stackhouse led McLean with 19 points and Andre Miller added 16. Gilbert Arenas had 13 points along with 7 assists for the Nationals.

Finney loses the first, wins the middle two, and loses the last. finney shot 34% in the first game and only 29% in the last. Cave Creek hit two threes at the end to make game 3 close.

Ilgauskas and Garnett both fouled out for the Blimps. Shane Battier stole the Akron inbounds pass with 3 seconds left and converted a breakaway layup to seal the exciting victory for the Blades. Ray Allen led Akron with 25 points and Garnett added 17 before fouling out. For Bakersfield Shaq powered home 19 to lead a balanced scoring attack.

Game 1: Cave Creek wins 106-91. Snow goes for 22 pts on 6 of 8 shooting and 10/11 from the line. Louisana's double teaming of Pierce fails, as Snow hits some open shots and Pierce still goes for 29. Louisana shoots 38% despite Big Whitey's performance (Nesterovic) going 8-13 for 17 pts and 8 rebounds.

Game 2: Louisiana continues to double team Pierce and leave Snow open. However, it was not Snow who picked up the slack. In the 1st 5 minutes of the game, Maurice Taylor scored 10 points and grabbed 3 rebounds. Pierce does not even score until there are 5 minutes left in the first half. Hilario scores 21 points and goes to the line 18 times. Louisiana again had trouble finding the basket, shooting 37%, led by Mashburns 8-29 performance.

Game 3: Louisiana leads by 4 at half, and leads by 4-9 points through most of the 3rd quarter. But a late 3rd quarter rally by the Cave Creek Longshots carries over to the fourth quarter, and Cave Creek wins 110-103. Masburn and Harpring had 31 and 24 points respectively. Big Whitey again was solid with 10 points and 11 rebounds. For Cave Creek it was truly a team effort. Richardson scored 19 off the bench, Hilario had 17, and Pierce had his steady 22 points.

Tulsa held on to beat McLean in McLean, 106-98, behind Shawn Marion's 28 and Tony Parker's 20. The Nats had 24 turnovers and Jerry Stackhouse had charging fouls all four times he had the ball in only five minutes playing time in the first half. He finished with 14, as Gilbert Arenas and Corey Maggette led the Nats with 20 points each. Jermaine O'Neal also had first half charging problems and would up with 14.

Cave Creek cruised to a 116-101 victory in McLean behind 29 from Paul Pierce and 25 from former Nat Jalen Rose. Jerry Stackhouse scored 23 before disqualification on an intentional foul with :34 seconds to play and his team behind by 12.

After first quarter, Finney never in game, shooting miserable 36%.Marbury led Tri-City with 24.Riicky Davis had 21, 11 of 13 at the free throw line.
Iverson had 32 for Finney on 13 of 28 shooting.

Cave Creek continues to impress head coach Mark Long with their overall team play. Each game it's the small things that get it done.

Cave Creek wins109-102, but not without a scare. Cave Creek lead by as many as 14 in the 2nd half, but Iowa managed a brief 4th quarter lead as McGrady hit a 3. Secret weapon Etan Thomas got some rare playing time in a close game, and althout his 5 points and 3 rebounds may not look like much, it was done in 6 minutes of the 4th quarter. Snow was left open much of the game, and finished 6-11 shooting with 14pts, 7 rebounds, and 6 assists. McGrady had a slow first half, but finished with 27 and was almost the hero.

Iowa double teamed Pierce about 2/3 of the time. In the first half, Pierce had 20 points anyway. In the second half, the rest of the Longshots took over, including Nene who finished with 17 pts.

LA 106
CC 111
Pierce with 34

LA 87
CC 103
Pierce with 29

LA 88
CC 102
Cave men go to the charity line 45 times

Jerry Stackhouse scored 36 including several fourth quarter clutch baskets as the Nats held on to beat the Blades in McLean 120-118. Five other Nats in double figures helped the Nats overcome a 37 point effort (including nine for 12 free throws!) by Shaquille O'Neal. Overall, the game was decided by the fact that McLean shot 52 percent from the floor to the Blades 43 percent.

The Tornadoes won the first two games of the series, but McLean took the last two to gain a split.

Game 1. Tracy McGrady had 38 points on 19 shots from the field to lead the Tornadoes, 113-104. McLean took an early 36-20 first quarter lead, but were outscored in the second and third quarters 69-41. A late rally was insufficient. Corey Maggette, Gilbert Arenas, and Richard Jefferson each had twenty or more for the Nats.

Game 2. McGrady again led the Tornadoes with 34 in a 128-111 win. Steve Francis added 20 and Jefferson led the Nats with 25. Ninety-one percent free throw shooting and 22 Nats turnovers doomed any comeback.

Game 3. Fortunes changed drastically as the Nats were able to build on an early lead and wound up in with a 120-93 blowout win. Arenas had 29 and Jerry Stackhouse 22 as McGrady, facing more double teaming, was held to 22.

Game 4. The last game was a barn burner with neither team being able to stop the other. The Nats executed down the stretch to pull it out 128-126. Vince Carter had 30 and Keith Van Horn had 21, but McGrady, hobbled by early foul trouble was held to 10 points on three for 14 shooting. Stackhouse led the Nats with 32 and Maggette added 27, as the Nats overall hit 63 percent from the floor.

Tulsa dominated the first half but the Druids fought back to tie it with under 4 minutes to play. However, Tulsa shut the Bettendorf offense after they tied it and went on to post the victory.

Two of the SABL's top scoreres went at each other as Allen Iverson led Finney to a 112-101 victory over Tracy McGrady and Iowa. Iverson ended the game with 42, McGrady finished with 36.

The first quarter started off close. Paul Pierce had 12 points and Ruben Patterson had 7 as the teams battled back and forth with Cave Creek taking the lead after 1... 23-19. But foul trouble and poor shooting by Bettendorf caused the game to get out of hand from there. Bettendorf scored 22 points combined in the 2nd and 3rd quarters and amassed very few for the game.

There were 69 fouls called in this game compared to only 60 points scored by Bettendorf. Cave Creek took the game 91-60.

Bakersfield took charge in the second half of a close game and rolled to a 126-112 victory to take the Feb. 4th three game set vs Galactic 2-1. Shaq hauled down 14 boards and scored 20 points, Brand had 25 and Rahim 18. Mike Miller was 4-4 from 3 point range and finished added 19 points. For the Thunder, Sam Cassell was high scorer with 24 and Payton distributed 10 assists while racking up 19 points.

Game 1

Galactic 140
Bakersfield 92

Galactic had 8 men in double figures lead by payton with 24 and 9 assists. O'neal had 23 for Blades.

Game 2

Galactic 145
Bakersfield 148

What a game!! Halftime score 86-76 Galactic, Bakersfield outscored Galactic 72 to 59 in the second half. Blades shot 11-15(73%) on 3's. Both teams shot 59% from the floor. Gleen Robinson lead all scores with 33. Shaq added 26 with 9 rebs and 5 assists. Malone lead Thunder with 32. Payton had 23 with 10 assists.

Game 3

Galactic 108
Bakersfield 129

Blades slice through Thunder running away with the game powered by a 72-46 2nd half blowout. Bakersfield had 8 men in double figures lead by O'neal with 24 and 12 rebs. Blades made 35-47 FT attempts. Payton had 19 with 9 assists for Galactic.

Galactic led the whole way and staved off a late comeback by Bakersfield to claim a 114-111 victory in the second game of a Feb. 4th three game set. Gordan Giricek missed a 3 pointer at the buzzer that would have tied the game. Rahim scored 27 with 9 boards for the Blades, and Shaq collected 10 rebounds to go along with his 21 points. Elton Brand also had 21 for the Blades and 9 rebounds. For the Thunder, Grant Hill and Karl Malone each netted 18 points and Gary "The Glove" Payton dished out 8 more assists.

Blades take off and cruise to a 115 to 106 victory at Bakersfield in the first of a 3 game set on Feb. 4. Shaq scored 21 points and pulled down 10 boards for the Blades and Abdur-Rahim had 20. For the Thunder, Malone connected for 18 points and Coleman chipped in with 17. Both Payton and Malone dished out 8 assists.

THESE DEALS TAKE EFFECT MARCH. 1, 2004. DO NOT ADJUST ROSTERS UNTIL YOU'VE PLAYED YOUR JANUARY & FEBRUARY GAMES WITH THESE TEAMS. I WILL NOT ADJUST ROSTERS ON OUR WEBSITE UNTIL MARCH 1. WHEN YOU MAKE THESE TRADES, DO THEM EXACTLY IN THE NUMERICAL ORDER YOU SEE HERE AND EXACTLY HOW THEY ARE LISTED HERE.

41. Holcomb trades Brian Grant, J. Crawford & T. Thomas to Bakersfield for Billups, G. Robinson & Battier

40. Holcomb trades Vladimir Radmanovic to Bettendorf for Ruben Patterson

38. Galactic trades Fox & its 2005 1st pick to Cave Creek for Prince & its 2005 3rd pick

37. Galactic trades Zach Randolph, Wells & Davenport's 3rd to St. Lucie for Webber, Hamilton & Holcomb's 1st

Holcomb holds on at end to win. Iowa after trailing by 10 or more for most of the game puts on a 4th qtr rally to fall 5 short 117-112. McGrady led all scorers with 35, five other Iowa players were in double figures. Jordan had 29, Williams 27, and Williamson 23 for Holcomb. Wallace (14) and
Grant(15) had more rebounds than the Iowa team (27).

Yep, hope you got what you needed 'cause this year's trading bar is closed. Of course you can still make deals, but they all will be for next season now.

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