All Star Rosters (now with 100% more Ray Allen!)

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NEW YORK (AP) — Boston Celtics guard Ray Allen will replace injured Orlando guard Jameer Nelson next week in the NBA All-Star game.

Allen was added to the Eastern Conference team Thursday by commissioner David Stern after Nelson was forced to pull out because of a torn labrum in his right shoulder. Allen joins teammates Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett on the roster for the Feb. 15 game in Phoenix.

"He should have been on there, so it's nice," Celtics coach Doc Rivers said. "Having those three doing things together is nice, so I'm happy with the news."

heh, labrum/
anyway the rosters as they stand now (chris paul will still likely be replaced due to injury:

Kobe
CP3
Duncan
Amare
Yao

Dirk
Shaq
Roy
Pau
B-B-B-Billups
David West
Tony Parker


AI
Dwade
Lebron
KG
Dwight Howard

Joe Johnson
Danny Granger
Paul Pierce
Bosh
Devin Harris
Rashard Lewis

NBA subtracts rebound from LeBron's triple-double

By Official Release
Posted Feb 6 2009 4:02PM

NEW YORK -- The NBA announced today that a statistical error was made during the Cleveland Cavaliers-New York Knicks game on Feb. 4 at Madison Square Garden.

Cavaliers forward LeBron James was incorrectly credited with a rebound with 39.3 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter that should have been awarded to Cleveland forward Ben Wallace. Due to the correction, James finished Wednesday's game with nine rebounds -- one rebound short of a triple-double -- while Wallace ended with two rebounds.

Lakers win in Boston

NBA:

BOSTON(AP) Ray Allen was still on the floor, knocked on his back, when the Los Angeles Lakers began hugging and chest-bumping under the 2008 NBA Championship banner that was earned at their expense.

"I wish we would have come here last year with this kind of attitude,'' said Pau Gasol, who scored 24 points with 14 rebounds Thursday night to lead the Lakers to a 110-109 overtime victory over Boston.

"Nobody backed down,'' he added. "We were as physical as anybody.''

In a rematch of an NBA finals in which the Celtics outmuscled the Lakers to the title, Lamar Odom made a pair of free throws with 16 seconds left in overtime and Los Angeles held on with physical defense against Paul Pierce and Allen that prevented either All-Star from getting off a clean shot.

The loss snapped the Celtics' 12-game winning streak and dropped them to 0-2 against the best in the West. Boston trails the Lakers by percentage points for the best overall record in the NBA, and would lose a tiebreaker for home court advantage in the finals - if they both make it back.

"It would be great,'' Pierce said.

Cavaliers top Toronto 101-83

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- Lebron youngest to reach 12,000 points

- Cavs are 23-0 at home

Unbelievable