The Milwaukee Bucks got walloped at home by the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night. That's no sin, because the Thunder have administered beatings to a lot of good teams this season, but it hurt Scott Skiles' 28-29 squad quite a bit, pushing them 1.5 games out of a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference with just nine games remaining on their schedule.

Milwaukee was outclassed from the opening tip, but they were feisty throughout, with perhaps no Buck showing his fire more than reserve big man Larry Sanders. Unfortunately, he showed his fire by picking up two technical fouls in the third and fourth quarters, earning the first ejection of his NBA career. Behold:

At first blush, Sanders' techs seem totally reasonable — he barked at official Greg Willard after a third-quarter foul call and he got an elbow up near the mug of Nick Collison after a fourth-quarter free throw. You carp and you play chippy, you're going to get dinged, which is exactly what a struggling team scraping for a playoff berth and down double-digits to the best team in the Western Conference doesn't need.

After the game, though, Sanders made it clear that — on his first T, at least, which he picked up after being called for a foul for contesting a dunk attempt by Thunder guard Thabo Sefolosha — he had a very legitimate gripe. The Bucks center checked the tape of his first tech and showed us why he was mad on his Twitter account:

Blake Griffin attempts a shot against Marreese Speights and Marc Gasol. (Getty Images)

This is definitely a good start, Marreese Speights and Marc Gasol, but excruciatingly pained facial expressions are only part of it. You also have to anger DeMarcus Cousins. Oh, and probably learn the Strasberg Method. Whichever one feels safer, I guess.

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Paul Silas breaks out the epic facepalm. (Screencap courtesy of @Jose3030)

Things got real sad in Charlotte on Monday night, as the NBA's two worst teams — the Charlotte Bobcats and the Washington Wizards — locked up for a battle of who could care less. The winner (well, relatively speaking)? The Bobcats, who played at home against a Wiz squad without big-minute forwards Nene and Trevor Booker and still managed to lose by 28.

Charlotte shot 39 percent from the floor against a team allowing nearly 108 points per 100 possessions on the season, let Washington tie a season high with 28 assists on 40 made baskets, and gave up a combined 37 points on 22 shots to two players (Cartier Martin and James Singleton) on 10-day contracts that weren't in the league two weeks ago. It was a tough night for the 'Cats, to put it mildly.

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Our man @Jose3030 snagged the above screencap of Bobcats coach Paul Silas — who was serving as an assistant for Monday night's loss, as son Stephen Silas slid up to the head chair, as he's done several times in recent weeks — letting the struggle show. It also bled through pretty openly in the gamer filed by Bobcats beat reporter Rick Bonnell at the Charlotte Observer:

To those Bobcats fans worried this 7-48 team might fail to deliver the most chances in the May 30 draft lottery: No sweat.

The Bobcats trail the 13-44 Wizards by four games in the loss column. Any combination of six Wizards victories and Bobcats losses clinches Charlotte a 25 percent chance at the No. 1 overall pick. [...]

The final margin of defeat has been greater, but seldom have the Bobcats looked more lifeless, particularly considering the Wizards are the NBA's second-worst team. [...]

"Honestly, we expected to win that game tonight," said Bobcats guard Matt Carroll. "That's a game we had circled."

Thanks to Matt Carroll, who is hitting 18.5 percent of his 3-pointers and chipping in a robust 7.4 Player Efficiency Rating (remember, league-average is 15) in just over 11 minutes per game for a seven-win team, for providing that gem of a quote.

Stephon Marbury hoists the Chinese Basketball Association championship. (S.I. China/Getty Images)About two weeks ago, Stephon Marbury became a champion for the first time since high school. The Beijing-by-way-of-Brooklyn point guard led his Beijing Ducks to a 4-1 series win over defending Chinese Basketball Association champion Guangdong Hongyuan, bringing the Ducks their first-ever CBA championship. The win capped an emotional road to a title for Marbury, who turned his career and life around by going to China after the 2009 NBA season, thriving in the CBA game to the tune of three straight All-Star appearances and, now, a title.

While Marbury put up MVP-caliber numbers in the CBA finals — he averaged 33.4 points, 6.2 assists and four rebounds a night in the five-game series and poured in 41 points to seal the deciding Game 5 — he couldn't officially be named the series' most valuable player, thanks to a CBA rule stipulating that no foreign-born player can win the CBA's regular-season or postseason MVP awards. Eager to recognize Marbury's championship-winning performance, though, fans at the Chinese basketball website hoopchina.com started an online campaign aimed at building a statue of the former Minnesota Timberwolves, New Jersey Nets, Phoenix Suns, New York Knicks and Boston Celtics point guard.

Within hours, more than 200,000 fans had thrown their support behind the project; within a week, more than 1 million had voted in favor of pushing the statue into production. As of the latest update, dated April 10, the statue — which captures the moment Marbury lifted the CBA championship trophy, shown above — has been modeled in clay, "transported to the Jiangxi Province [and is] ready to start after the bronze work," according to a translation of a post from the HoopChina forums.

Hit the jump for some shots of the model, thanks to HoopChina, with a hat-tip to Sean Sweeney at Dime.

Derrick Rose (ankle) is a game-time decision for Tuesday's Bulls-Knicks game. (Getty Images)Toe, back and groin injuries have cost Derrick Rose large chunks of playing time over the past few months, limiting the reigning league MVP to just 35 appearances in his Chicago Bulls' 57 games this season. Now, just one game after making his return in Sunday's 100-99 overtime loss to the New York Knicks, the Bulls' point guard may once again find himself on the shelf, thanks to a whole new ailment.

From K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune:

Derrick Rose's groin injury and Richard Hamilton's shoulder soreness appear to be in the past, but that doesn't mean painful subjects don't remain for the Bulls.

Rose, for starters, tweaked an ankle at some point in Sunday's game, which he finished. The extent of the injury is unknown, however sources said Rose wore a walking boot on Monday and his availability for Tuesday's shot at redemption against the Knicks is a game-time decision.

Johnson's sources didn't specify which foot was booted up. Rose wore a walking boot on his left foot back in January while suffering from turf toe, and on the same foot during the 2011 playoffs after spraining his left ankle against the Indiana Pacers.

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Even if Rose can't go, all's not lost for the Eastern Conference-leading Bulls, of course — Tom Thibodeau's team has proven quite skilled at operating without its star point guard this season.

Last week, we shared with you the seemingly unbelievable news that a Lebanese basketball player named Mohammad El-Akkari had scored 113 points in a single FIBA Asia game. The FIBAAsia.net report of El-Akkari's performance in Tripoli basketball club Mouttahed's win over Bejjeh included a crazy stat line — 40 of 69 from the floor, 32 of 59 from 3-point range and one lone free throw, which seems almost like a deliberate artistic flourish, in context — that inspired widespread disbelief. "Video or it didn't happen," the masses cried.

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Well, thanks to the just-created-over-the-weekend lebbasketball YouTube channel, we now have video evidence of every bucket that Akkari (no El here) scored, complete with a handy tally in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. However, in scandalous news that is likely to shock the Internet to its very core, that tally suggests that Akkari only scored a measly 109 points rather than a full, proud 113. BDL's seven-part investigation, "What Happened to the Other Four Points?: A Closer Look," will run following the NBA Finals, so stay tuned.

In the meantime, check out Akkari's pour-it-on performance. Abandon all hope of seeing defense, ye who enter here:

It is rare for a player to score 100 points in a professional basketball game, but it is probably even rarer that video of the feat reveals it to look so ... well, you can't call 100-plus points "underwhelming," but you know what I mean. Be honest: As you watched this, you were thinking, "I bet I could drop like 30 on Bejjeh right now, without even really warming up," right?

Shane Battier of the Miami Heat. (Getty Images)

Bringing "Battioke" to the court seemed like a weird strategy, but then the Detroit Pistons only shot 37.3 percent from the floor and lost by 23. Never doubt Shane Battier when it comes to defensive tactics, I guess.

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You'd be forgiven if you weren't glued to the flatscreen for Sunday's square-off between the New Jersey Nets and Cleveland Cavaliers. The two teams are a combined 39-73, playing for little beyond ping-pong balls at this stage of the season; must-see Cavs rookie point guard Kyrie Irving sat out the game with a shoulder sprain; and down the dial, Bubba Watson was in the process of making history. All told, there didn't seem to be very many reasons to tune in for the 6 p.m. Eastern tip.

In the second quarter, though, New Jersey's Gerald Wallace rewarded League Pass true believers with a monster offensive rebound and follow dunk over Cavaliers forward Antawn Jamison. Based on the way he came down, though, we kind of wish he hadn't.

As Nets color commentator Mike Fratello notes in the clip above, Wallace — seemingly miles away as he crashes the boards from the weak side, then rises above Jamison and gets up over the box to return the miss — comes down from a pretty obscene height with all of his weight landing on his left leg, then immediately crumples to the deck. He left the game right afterward, ending his day with seven points, three rebounds, two steals, an assist and one strained left hamstring in 17 minutes of floor time. There's no definitive word just yet on the severity of Wallace's injury — he's listed as questionable for the Nets' Tuesday night game against the Philadelphia 76ers — and we're certainly hopeful that it's just a minor strain that won't hamper him much. But it sure didn't look too good.