Portland can try to bully teams all they want, but the reality of the matter is countless people around the NBA still believe that Darius Miles is still able to play in the NBA.

After letting Toronto make a late push, Boston made some key stops and escaped with a 94-88 win.

The stat sheet will show that Bobcats’ guard Raymond Felton had nine points, 11 assists and six turnovers, but his impact went much deeper than that.

After a game earlier this season, Celtics head coach Doc Rivers explained to the media why he doesn’t worry about Ray Allen getting out of shooting slumps and he brushed off the game against Toronto being “emotional” because of a flare in emotions that happened during the course of the game.

After letting Memphis hang in the game during the first half, Toronto came out with an inspired effort in the second half to coast to a 103-83 victory. One of the highlights of the night was hearing the same fans that booed Andrea Bargnani less than a month ago give him a thundering ovation when he checked out of the game.

Coach Tapscott told the media he looks at the season in seven game intervals as a way to motivate his team. Sometimes it backfires as it did in December when he went 0-for-7, and other times it is encouraging like during this current seven game stretch when his team is a slightly improved 3-4.

On December 23rd, Washington Wizards head coach Ed Tapscott inserted Dominic McGuire in the starting lineup. Wizards guard DeShawn Stevenson was struggling mightily, and voluntarily asked to come off the bench to improve this team’s chances of winning. That moved Caron Butler from small forward to shooting guard, and allowed McGuire to play his natural position of small forward. Since that switch McGuire and the Wizards have played much better with victories over playoff teams like the Houston Rockets and the Cleveland Cavaliers.

The latest episode in the Marbury odyssey adds yet more strangeness: reports last week suggested that he is to be rewarded for his spoiled behavior so far this year by leaving the woefully mediocre Knicks for the world champion Boston Celtics.

After searching nationwide, and checking in with hundreds of college basketball’s best players and coaches, we have come up with a list of how some of the games best are choosing to make things better in 2009.

What a week it was in college basketball, as three of Hoops Addict’s top four teams lost for the first time this season. With conference play underway, the easy part of the schedule over, and we will start to get a true barometer on these teams headed into March.