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  • SL: Lou Williams out with broken jaw; Shaq pays for girl's funeral

    Each weekday morning, BDL serves up a handful of NBA-related stories to digest with your leftover turkey.

    Kate Fagan, Philadelphia Inquirer: "76ers point guard Lou Williams underwent surgery Thursday morning to wire together his upper and lower jaws. Williams will miss eight weeks. Early in the first quarter of Tuesday night's loss to the Washington Wizards, Williams suffered the injury in a collision with Washington forward Antawn Jamison. [...] 'I was spitting out blood every timeout, but I thought it was my tooth so I didn't think it was as serious as it was,' said Williams, who was averaging 17.4 points and 5.1 assists per game. 'I just continued to play, and there wasn't a lot of pain involved because I was playing on adrenaline obviously. But I knew something was wrong, just not to this magnitude.' After a sleepless, painful night in Boston, an X-ray taken of Williams' jaw initially revealed that fracture. 'What I wanted was something to numb the pain, something to help with the pain and continue to fight through,' Williams said of approaching the trainers on Wednesday morning. 'But you go through the protocol, the X-rays and this and that. And it came back, and there was a big line in my jaw, and that set the alarms off right there.'"

    AP: "Shaquille O'Neal paid for the funeral of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl after being moved by national news coverage of the case of Shaniya Davis, who police say was kidnapped and killed.  The Cleveland Cavaliers player was touched by the stories he saw and got in touch with the family to see what he could do to help, a spokeswoman for O'Neal said Thursday. More than 2,000 people attended the girl's funeral Sunday. Her body was found Nov. 16 beside a rural road. Her mother, Antionette Davis, who had reported the child missing six days earlier, is charged with human trafficking and child abuse involving prostitution. Mario McNeill is charged with murder, rape and kidnapping in the case. 'I was sitting at home watching it on the news and the story brought a tear to my eye,' O'Neal told The Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper."

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  • SL: Collison gets best of Jennings; Wade would play with Dwight

    Each weekday morning, BDL serves up a handful of NBA-related stories to digest with your turkey.

    Jimmy Smith, The Times-Picayune: "Coming into Wednesday night's New Orleans Hornets-Milwaukee Bucks game at New Orleans Arena, a rookie point guard was expected to shine. Not many figured, however, it would be Hornets' rookie Darren Collison who would steal the thunder, and the basketball at a critical moment in overtime, as New Orleans rallied for an improbable overtime victory. On a night when the Hornets threatened the team record for single-game shooting futility and trailed by 13 points, 11 at one juncture in the second half, it seemed unlikely that Collison would eventually grab the spotlight away from Milwaukee's Brandon Jennings, whose performance through the early part of the season has made him the favorite to win rookie of the year honors. [...] 'We expect that from him,' Hornets forward David West said of the poise that Collison exhibited throughout the game, but especially in the closing moments when senses were heightened by the frenetic pace of New Orleans' comeback and the surging exuberance of the 14,315 in attendance who were treated to a pre-Thanksgiving basketball feast. 'This guy has played in (NCAA) Final Fours. He's been in pressure situations. It's nothing new for him. So coming in here, we knew he has a lot of confidence. He believes in what he can do, trusts his instincts and in those situations, he can handle it.'"

    Jarrod Rudolph, RealGM: "Ahead of Wednesday's game in Orlando, Dwyane Wade shed some light on who he thinks would be the best player for him to play with. 'If I could pick one player in the league today to play with — and most people think I'd say LeBron James — I would pick Dwight (Howard),' Wade said Wednesday after practice at Amway Arena. 'I'd love for that to happen at some point. Dwight is already close right here in Orlando. People who say it couldn't happen (us playing on the same team), they don't know. I've learned in this league that anything is possible. I've played with a dominant center before, and there's nothing like it. It changes the whole game. It's why I'd love to play with Dwight. He's a phenomenal center who has only just scratched the surface of where he'll be,' Wade said. 'And he's the type of guy you'd really like to be around.'"

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