Jameer Nelson is confident

While the Mavs were winning their tenth straight last night, we were busy concentrating on the biggest game on the schedule.

Yep, it was the matchup of “teams who were everyone’s darkhorses to be pretty good but in actuality have the best records in their respective conferences.”

Utah v Orlando. Jazz v Magic. Dwight v Carlos. Nelson v Williams. Darko v Memet. Hill/Hill v Sloan/AK47. Mickey Mouse v Mormons.

However you want to put it, it was a large game, and the Orlando Magic came out ahead, winning on the road. Jameer Nelson is…self-assured.

“We know what type of team we are. We’re no fluke,” point guard Jameer Nelson said. “We’ve showed we have matured. Last year we might have kicked it away.”

True statement, and Jameer has really turned himself into quite the solid little point guard, just the kind that the Cavaliers could use and could’ve easily had, just like we wanted to have happen.

(This is an unverifiable but true part of our pre-blog life story.)

Anyway, interesting matchup – the Magic are on one of them West Coast road swigie deals, so we’ll see what they kick away and don’t kick away in the five games they have left on it. We’re cautiously optimistic for them.

That said, let’s go back to our first statement, wherein we said we were “concentrating” on this game.

What we actually meant is we were watching Heroes (on NBC!) and didn’t even know these teams were playing until this morning when we went to that hot new website NBA.com.

We blame our lack of NBA-centric attentions on, of course, the ongoing server issues that plague us day and night.

NOTE: Nothing!

NOTE 2: Anyone else totally, 100% sure that’s JJ Redick’s nailed-to-the-bench hand?