Re: more good news

[Thndrblt31@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/7/00 1:40:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
OzerskyJA@cmog.org writes:

<< Antoine showed up at the half of the Nike Real Run league game and dropped 
42 points in the 2nd half, including the winning 3 with two guys on him.  
Pierce dropped
42 as well. >>

Well, to make it sound more dramatic, Walker score those 42 in 23 minutes 
after fighting LA traffic to get to the game late.  He scored the winner with 
Pierce right in his face.  Here is the article.

Sunday, August 6, 2000  
Walker fashionably late 
By Sean Kearns
Staff Writer  
 
By the time Antoine Walker fought through Los Angeles traffic to the Veterans 
SportsComplex in Carson on Saturday afternoon, the Nike Real Run championship 
game was already at halftime.

With barely any warmup, however, Walker stepped onto the court and scored 42 
points in 23 minutes. That included the game-winning 3-pointer with three 
seconds left to lead 310 Motoring over the Blue Devils and Celtics teammate 
Paul Pierce, 133-131.

You have a cliche, `That's what you expect a pro to do,' " said Walker's 
teammate and former UCLA guard Kris Johnson. But you don't expect him to do 
that."

It was the type of summer league game where more than 1,000 people will say 
they were there the day Walker went for 42 in 23 minutes on Pierce's home 
court.

Pierce also finished with 42, but he missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer that 
would have won the game.

I told him how he let me come in his house and beat him," Walker said. "And I 
beat him at the buzzer."

With 26 seconds to go, it looked like Pierce's Blue Devils had the game in 
hand with a 130-124 lead. But in a frantic comeback, Walker scored nine of 
the last 10 points in the game, all on 3-pointers.

Walker, in town for Magic Johnson's game today at UCLA, hit a 3-pointer from 
the wing with 19 seconds left to get his team to within 130-127.

With 14 seconds left, Jason Crowe, Pierce's backcourt mate at Inglewood High 
School, hit one of two free throws to put the Blue Devils up, 131-127. Then 
Walker faced-up on Pierce and hit a straightaway 3-pointer with 10 seconds 
left to make the score 131-130.

The ensuing inbounds pass was tipped as it went to Crowe and a group of 
players dove for the loose ball, including Walker. Johnson and Crowe both 
reached the loose ball, resulting in a jump ball.

Johnson, who finished with 30 points, controlled the jump ball back to 
Walker. With two players in his face, one of them Pierce, Walker hit a 
fallaway 3-pointer with three seconds left.

Pierce's Blue Devils team also had Toby Bailey, who finished with 30 points. 
Mike Batiste, who went to Arizona State, had 29 for the Blue Devils.

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