HOUSTON
(AP) — Friends since preschool, but teammates for the first time since
they were teenagers, Dwight Howard and Josh Smith have been itching for
this opportunity.
On Tuesday night the Rockets teammates proved an
unstoppable combination in a key run that helped Houston to a 111-99
victory over the Dallas Mavericks and a 2-0 lead in the Western
Conference playoff series.
The Mavericks scored the first four
points of the fourth quarter to take a three-point lead. But with James
Harden on the bench, Houston scored the next 11 points, powered by three
alley-oop passes from Smith to Howard, who had 28 points, to take a
92-84 lead with about 8 minutes left.
"Man, like they were little
boys again," Harden, who finished with 24 points, said referring to
their time playing AAU ball together.
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