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I’m hopeful Kobe will be functioning at his usual high level. Bryant fractured the index finger on his right hand while reaching for a pass late in the first quarter in Friday's home win over Minnesota and was fitted for a splint at halftime. Utah bounced back from the beating to the Lakers by rallying for a win over Magic. But today the main factor will be a Jazz pure bench… still without Kirilenko and Korver.

Vic “The Raging Bull” Darchinyan is the clear favorite in this match-up of southpaws. At the end of the day, Darchinyan is simply a better fight than Rojas, with more power and skills, and he will shine in his return performance at a more natural weight class. When the fight gets moving, Rojas tends to tuck his chin, forget his game plan and swing for the fences while leaving his chin wide open for an Armenian left hook.

Awaiting the NBA's only unbeaten home team, however, is one of the league's best road squads. Orlando should be able to win the battle of the boards. Phoenix is just 23rd in the league in rebound rate and is just 15th in offensive rebound rate. Channing Frye will try to pull Dwight Howard away from the basket, so rebounding by Orlando will be key. Last Meeting: Orlando defeated the Phoenix Suns 122-100 at Amway Arena.

Philadelphia 76ers have lost 11 in a row overall, including 4 in a row at home, but they have a lot of closing games. The Sixers have been able to score on Houston lately, averaging 102.5 points while winning four straight against the Rockets over the last two seasons. Allen Iverson is still very rusty and didn't have really good games in his 2 starts. He was awful in their last game turning the ball over 6 times, while only producing 3 ast and 11 pts, so I’m waiting for his performance tonight.

I don’t see how the Wiz are gonna make it to the 4th seed. The Celtics, who are an exciting 9-1 on the road this season, haven't had much success in Washington recently, dropping five of their past seven trips to the nation's capital. Boston are playing defense and have restricted their opponents to less than 90 pts in their last five games. Boston will be short-handed after guard Marquis Daniels, but Tonny Allen is ready to play.

The two sides met for the first time ever on Matchday 2, when the English Premier League outfit triumphed 2-0. Arsenal's young side should be determined to avoid the sort of demoralizing lesson they received a week ago. Given that the Greek champions need only a point against Arsenal to be sure of second spot in Group H, and have conceded only three goals in ten home matches this season.

Raptors with a chance to win three straight for the first time this season and look to extend a 10-game winning streak meat against the Timberwolves. I know that Minnesota have lost 9 of their last 10 on the road (including 4 in a row on the spread) and also havn't beaten the Raptors since Jan. 21 2004.. But in my opinion the biggest thing tonight is game-time decision of Calderon and Bargnani, if they out - my bet look pretty good, if not 50/50 )))