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OAKLAND, Calif. wholesale nfl jerseys . -- By the time reporters were allowed in the visiting locker room at Oracle Arena late Monday night, most of the Philadelphia 76ers already had cleared out. The television in the centre of the room was turned off. There were no box scores from the game on players chairs -- which is typical after most NBA games -- and there were no smiles to be had by anybody. After losing by a total of 88 points on consecutive nights in California, the 76ers just want to forget what happened. "Not going to turn on TV or read the papers," forward Evan Turner said. Marreese Speights scored a career-high 32 points to hand his former team a near-record setback, leading the Golden State Warriors past the woeful 76ers 123-80. Philadelphia nearly matched the NBA mark for the largest total margin of defeat in consecutive games. The Detroit Pistons lost by 95 points combined in back-to-back games in November 1966, according to STATS. "Its hard for everybody," Sixers coach Brett Brown said. "The reality of it is they have put in so much time and despite all the turmoil, its a group thats been together, stayed together. At times, you look up and you have to keep going and keep on playing with some level of dignity, and its hard doing that." After losing 123-78 at the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday night in a game it trailed by 56 points in the third quarter, Philadelphia (15-38) figured it couldnt get much worse. It almost did. Speights finished 12-of-15 shooting and grabbed eight rebounds, and Stephen Curry added 23 points and eight assists to help the Warriors go ahead by 49 in the fourth quarter. "It was a thing of beauty," Golden State coach Mark Jackson said. Michael Carter-Williams scored 24 points, and Turner and Thaddeus Young had 12 points apiece for a rebuilding 76ers team that never put up much of a fight during its seventh straight loss. No other team in NBA history has lost two straight games by at least 40 points each. Philadelphia has now done it twice. The 76ers lost back-to-back games in April 1994 by a combined 93 points, and theyre struggling to explain -- and correct -- what has gone so wrong during this latest stretch. "You just look up at the scoreboard and see a lot of points. I really dont know," Turner said. "Were in the game at one point. We were down by like 10, and then the next thing you know it popped up to like 25 or 30." Philadelphia finishes a three-game road trip Wednesday night at Utah before heading into an All-Star break that cant come soon enough. Golden State outshot the Sixers 48.9 per cent to 36.7 per cent and outrebounded them 60-38 despite playing without centre Andrew Bogut (left shoulder injury) and backup centre Jermaine ONeal (sore right wrist). David Lee, who had missed the past two games with a sprained left shoulder and strained left hip, had 13 points and 13 rebounds in 31 minutes. Brown said before the game that he was happy his team had a chance to quickly atone for its horrendous showing in Los Angeles. Instead, the 76ers had another embarrassing performance. As if Philadelphias miserable two-day stretch wasnt bad enough, it was capped off by one of its former draft picks. Speights spent his first 2 1/2 seasons in Philadelphia before getting traded to Memphis. He split last season between Memphis and Cleveland before signing with the Warriors as a free agent last summer. The reserve big man made his first seven jumpers, including a 3-pointer and a layup through traffic that started a three-point play, to give Golden State a 47-27 lead midway through the second quarter. "They got real hot," Carter-Williams said. On his eighth attempt, Speights missed a 26-footer that had nearly everybody in the announced sellout crowd of 19,596 waiting to roar before it caromed off the rim. Speights left to a standing ovation before the Warriors went ahead 66-33 at halftime. Some fans even serenaded Speights with chants of "M-V-P!" after he began another three-point play in the third quarter that stretched Golden States lead to 92-48. "That was so funny. I started laughing," Speights said. "At least they still have trust in me, so its always good to have fans on your side." The defeat couldve been much worse, too. Jackson put in most of his reserves before the fourth quarter, though the highlights didnt stop from one of them. Speights made a step-back jumper to put Golden State up 107-58 with 9:41 to play before leaving to another ovation with 3:02 left. Brown kept most of his starters in until the final minutes to slice the deficit down a little. "Dont anybody feel sorry for us," Brown said. "We will wake up and be (OK) tomorrow." NOTES: The Warriors swept the season series against the 76ers for the first time since the 2007-08 season. ... Sixers reserve Hollis Thompson missed the game with a sprained right ankle. ... The league announced Monday that Curry received the NBAs Kia Community Assist Award for January for his generosity and ongoing charitable efforts in the San Francisco Bay Area. nfl jerseys china . Darvish is scheduled to make his season debut Sunday at Tampa Bay after getting through an extended bullpen session without any issues. cheap jerseys from china . -- As expected, coach John Fox has officially ruled out Wes Welker for Denvers game against San Diego on Thursday night because of a concussion.BETHESDA, Md. -- Theres at least one notable absence from the players lining up to throw a ticker-tape parade for Rory McIlroy. "They dont give trophies away," Lee Westwood said brusquely, "on Fridays and Saturdays." Its too bad the 38-year-old Englishman and 22-year-old Northern Irishman wont be paired together for the final lap of the U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club. Golf etiquette would have required that they behave like chums, or at least do their best to make it look that way -- exchanging plenty of "well played," "nice shot," great putt" and all that. They were Ryder Cup teammates just last October, after all, theyre practically countrymen and they share an agent. But theyre more rivals than theyre ever likely to be friends. The praise for McIlroy has been nonstop this week, and with good reason. More than a few competitors had already conceded they were playing for second, and after McIlroy strolled off the course Saturday evening with an eight-shot lead over his closest pursuer, Y.E. Yang, that sentiment was all but etched on the U.S. Open trophy. Yang, who played with McIlroy in the last group Saturday, will get a second shot at him Sunday. But judging by his first go-round -- when McIlroy missed almost as many fairways and greens as he had in the first two rounds combined and still beat Yang by two strokes, 68-70 -- hes not likely to make the kid sweat. Westwood, on the other hand, still might. Hell go off alongside Jason Day, whos also 5-under, in the next-to-last group and almost no one has been hotter lately. Westwood has two wins and a loss in a playoff in his last four tournaments and after a slow- starting 75 here, shot 68 and 65 in his last two rounds. "I set a target on Friday night. Thats all you can do when youre chasing a big lead," he said. "I said maybe if I can get to 10 under at the weekend, but you dont know how Rory is going to do. You dont know how hes going to deal with the big lead. He had a big lead in a major and didnt deal with it well before. Theres pressure on him with regards to that. "So," he said finally, "well see.&" That may not sound harsh, but Westwood has launched golfs version of a beanball war. cheap nfl jerseys. The references about McIlroy not dealing well with a big lead go back two months to the kids spitting the bit at the Masters. There, he left the clubhouse Sunday afternoon with a four-stroke lead, wound up shooting a shaky 80 and looking for a place to hide. Westwood wasnt particularly sympathetic that day, which should have surprised exactly no one. The two have been sniping at one another on Twitter and in interview rooms as far-flung as Dubai. In fact, Westwood was asked to compare McIlroys performance Friday to Tiger Woods destruction of Pebble Beach in the 2000 U.S. Open and said, "Well see what Rory does. Hes had leads before." Given yet one more chance to laud the youngster in that same interview -- "What advice would you give to Rory going in with two rounds to go?" Westwood replied: "Im supposed to beat him over the next two days. Im hardly going to give him advice, am I?" Like McIlroy, the Englishman made a splashy arrival in the game, but his career arc has been uneven since. Hes had his shot to win a few majors and never sealed the deal, then was a middling player for nearly a decade before emerging the last few years as a force on the European Tour again. Its easy to make an argument that hes currently the best player never to win a major, but whether McIlroys likelihood of becoming the latest player to leapfrog him has anything to do with Westwoods reluctance to give the kid his due is pure speculation. To be sure, McIlroy has given back as good as hes got. And either way, Chubby Chandler, the agent for both men, went out of his way Saturday to make it sound as though all the golfers in his stable get along famously. He regaled reporters with stories of dinners this week, noting that both he and Westwood have already picked up tabs and that Saturday nights bill is going to wind up in front of McIlroy. Even so, Westwood refused to commit to being at the table. "I dont know," he said when asked whether he planned to dine with McIlroy. "Depends what time he gets finished." cheap jerseys cheap jerseys from china ' ' ' |
