Halftime for Charlotte vs Orlando

Gerald Wallace plays every basketball game as if it was his last. The 26-year-old Alabaman slashes through defences, gets slammed to the floor, gets right up and goes flying back into the fray come hell or high water. “If I play for 20 years in this league it’ll be by the grace of God, and if I play 10 years it’ll be by the grace of God,” says the Charlotte Bobcats star. “I’m going to keep playing the way I play.” Fiery and fantastic were two adjectives that applied to his performance Friday night. It wasn’t just that he scored 30 points in a 102-89 victory over the Toronto Raptors that drew all the raves. It was when he scored. Every time Toronto inched close, Wallace delivered a turning-point blow. “I play off adrenalin,” he said. He was on his back with his rather large foot in a camera man’s lens. He was in the first row of seats after being forced out of bounds. He was everywhere. Where the Bobcats are as a team is in the thick of a battle for the eighth and final Eastern Conference playoff berth. Their third consecutive win, and their eighth in the last 11 games, adds momentum to the charge for the first playoff berth in the team’s five-year history. “We don’t get caught up in the standings,” said Wallace. “We’re just taking care of our own game.” Boris Diaw also scored 30 points and Ray Felton had 14. The Bobcats had played the previous night but they didn’t look tired at all. Nor did they ease up against the rotten Raptors. “We went into Minnesota last …
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