Hawks Basketball Club

With LeBron James in the audience, the Cleveland Cavaliers fell to the New Orleans Hornets, 79-78, on Saturday during the NBA Summer League at the COX Pavilion on the campus of the University of Nevada – Las Vegas.

Jerryd Bayless scored 17 fourth-quarter points and hit the game winning jumper with 18 seconds left to lead the Portland Trial Blazers to a 74-73 victory over the Phoenix Suns at the NBA Summer League on Saturday.

Darius Washington’s 19 points led the way for the Milwaukee Bucks, who defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves 81-67 in 2008 NBA Summer League action on Saturday.

Bobby Jones and Keith Langford scored 18 points and 17 points, respectively on Saturday, as the Denver Nuggets downed the Los Angeles Lakers 92-79 at the 2008 NBA Summer League Presented by EA Sports.

Rookie Marreese Speights and sophomore Jason Smith each scored a game-high 24 points and led the Philadelphia 76ers past the Washington Wizards 86-72 at COX Pavilion on Thursday.

The Dallas Mavericks, led by Gerald Green’s 18-points, defeated the Sacramento Kings, 93-71. The win was the largest margin of victory thus far in the 2008 NBA Summer League Presented by EA Sports at the COX Pavilion in UNLV.

Boston's 39-point win surpassed the NBA record for the biggest margin of victory in a championship clincher; the Celtics beat the Lakers 129-96 in Game 5 of the 1965 NBA Finals.

Kobe Bryant scored 25 points, including a decisive dunk in the final minute - and Lamar Odom added 20 as the Lakers, playing with pride on their star-studded stage, prevented the Celtics from winning a 17th title with a 103-98 win in Game 5 on Sunday.

Boston rallied from a 24-point deficit and beat the Los Angeles Lakers 97-91 on Thursday night to take a commanding 3-1 lead in this history-rich series and move within one victory of a 17th championship that seemed impossible a year ago.