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Τhe last night of 2012 in the NBA almost belonged to a young center from Montenegro. It was the second game this season for longtime Orlando international star Hedo Turkoglu, but Nikola Vucevic stole the spotlight as he had 20 points and 29 rebounds for the Magic (11-19) in the overtime defeat by a bucket to the champs (112-110), Miami Heat (21-8). Vucevic owns Orlando’s rebounding record for a single game, surpassing Shaquille O’Neal. Turk Omer Asik had his usual double double (17 p., 11 r.) in the Rockets (17-14) win over Atlanta (19-10) by 123-104 and the Spurs (25-8) toyed with Brooklyn (16-15) in a 104-73 win with French star Tony Parker (20 p.) being the top scorer of the game. Last but not least, second in the West OKC (24-6) beat the Suns (11-21). The final score was 114-96 as Spaniard Serge Ibaka (16 p.) and Swish Thabo Sefolosha (14 p.) scoring in double digits against Polish Marcin Gortat (12 p., 10 r.) and Slovenian Goran Dragic (16 p., 8 as.).
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On Sunday Parker (21 p., 9 r.) led the Spurs on the 111-86 road win against Dallas (12-19), as Dirk Nowitzki still tried to get into shape and had only 8 points in 23 minutes.
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On Saturday, Atlanta beat 109-100 Indiana (18-13) with Georgian center Zaza Pachulia as a starter with 17 points and 14 rebounds against 13 points of Frenchman Ian Mahimni. Toronto (11-20) destroyed Orlando 123-88 as Jose Calderon had a double double (15 p., 10 as.) and Frenchman Mickael Pietrus added 9 points. The Bulls (16-13) got the 87-77 win over the Wizards with Italian Marco Belinelli being the top scorer of the game with 17 points and the Nuggets (17-15) lost to the Grizzlies (19-9) in a mediocre game for Euros. Spaniard Marc Gasol had just 6 points, but also 9 rebounds and 3 steals, while Greek-American Kosta Koufos had 8 points and 6 rebounds and Italian Danilo Gallinari 7 points and 6 rebounds. Minessota (14-13) with Montenegrin center Nikola Pekovic scoring 28 points and Russian Alexey Shved dishing 10 assists beat the Suns 111-107, while Frenchman Nicolas Batum was impressive with 22 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists and two blocks in the 89-85 win of the Blazers (15-14) over the Sixers (14-17).
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On Friday Danilo Gallinari had the biggest night of his career with 39 points (career-high), 8 rebounds and 3 assists in the 106-85 Nugget’s triumph over Dallas. Tony Parker scored 31 points in the 122-116 Spurs’ win over Houston and Spaniard Pau Gasol helped the Lakers (15-15) with 15 points, 9 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 blocks to win the game against Portland 104-87.
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On Thursday the Thunder beat Dallas 111-105 in overtime as Ibaka was the second leading scorer with 19 points, 17 rebounds and 5 blocks behind the 40 points of Kevin Durant. It was one more bad game for Nowitzki who had 9 points on 3/11 shots and 6 rebounds.
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On Wednesday, Turk Ersan Ilyasova produced a double double (17p ., 11 r.) in 108-93 win of the Bucks (16-13) over Brooklyn. The Lakers beat the Nuggets behind 40 points by Kobe Bryant with Pau Gasol addint 19 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists against 19 points of Gallinari and 10 points of Koufos.
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On Tuesday in the rematch of last season’s finals Miami beat OKC 103-97 with Ibaka (15 p., 6 r.) having just decent numbers. Asik was a monster (20 p., 18 r.) against his former team in the 120-97 victory of Houston over Chicago. Koufos with 16 points and 10 rebounds was the best player of Denver in the 112-100 defeat to the Clippers who are the hottest team in the league and have the best record (25-6).
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