NBA Sunday ABC - Suns at Pistons, Nuggets at Mavs & Rockets at Lakers

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Lynx

Discussion Starter · Apr 2, 2006

Super Sunday brings you ultimate package of excitment!! 3 games on Sunday. how sweet this is!!!!

GAME 1

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Despite leading the league in scoring, coach Mike D'Antoni is looking to slow down his Phoenix Suns slightly as they visit the Detroit Pistons.

Phoenix averages 108.4 points, but defense has become a concern for D'Antoni following his team's 140-126 shootout win Friday over Toronto. The Suns have won four of their last six games, but they have allowed opponents to score 112.7 points per game and shoot 49.7 percent from the field, including 51.6 percent (63-for-122) from 3-point range.

Detroit's trademark defense was absent in the first half of its game Friday against the Milwaukee Bucks, conceding a season-worst 59 first-half points before rallying to win 112-105. It was the first time in seven games the Pistons -- who have won three straight and nine of their last 11 -- allowed an opponent to reach 100.

SEASON SERIES: Pistons, 1-0.

LAST MEETING: Nov. 10; Pistons, 111-104. At Phoenix, Billups scored 13 of his 27 points in the first quarter and also had 11 assists for the Pistons, who shot 53.8 percent from the field. Barbosa scored 21 points off the bench for the Suns.

GAME 2

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The Dallas Mavericks picked a bad time for a rare slump. They'll look to snap their longest losing streak of the season when they host the Denver Nuggets. The Mavericks trail the first-place Spurs by three games in the Southwest Division. The two are also battling for the best record in the Western Conference, but since the three division winners will get the top three seeds in the playoffs, the second-place finisher will be seeded fourth.

The Nuggets are six games ahead of the second-place Utah Jazz in the Northwest Division with nine games left. They beat Minnesota 106-94 on Friday to snap a two game losing streak.

GAME 3

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Coming off yet another 40-point game, Kobe Bryant tries to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to their sixth win in seven games and closer to a playoff berth as they host the Houston Rockets. Bryant set a single-season career high for points with 2,499, and his next 40-point game will tie the franchise record of 23 established by Elgin Baylor in the 1962-63 season. Bryant, who is averaging a league-high 34.7 points, has three 40-point efforts in his last six games and three in 30 lifetime games against the Rockets.

Houston has won three of its last four games but is struggling to make up ground in the playoff race. The Rockets are 11th in the West, 4 1/2 games behind Sacramento with 10 to play.

SEASON SERIES: Tied, 1-1.

LAST MEETING: Feb. 8; Lakers, 89-78. At Houston, Bryant scored 32 points and Cook added 27 and 10 rebounds as the Lakers snapped a four-game losing streak. Alston had 16 points and eight assists while Yao added 14 points and 13 rebounds for the Rockets, who were outrebounded 48-40.

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