Milwaukee Bucks to attempt Guinness World Records

Everybody has heard of the Guinness Book of World Records, a legendary book that contains the unprecedented achievements of people from around the globe. But few have ever made an attempt to add their name to the book’s famous pages and even fewer have actually succeeded in doing so. On Saturday night, the Bucks are giving all fans in attendance the chance to both witness history AND – even better – a guarantee that they will be a part of history by helping to set two Guinness records.

On Saturday, December 20, when they host the Los Angeles Clippers, the Bucks Game Operations Department will attempt to set nine separate Guinness World Records. An official judge from Guinness will be at the game to legitimize any and all record-setting attempts. The records that could be broken are:

- Longest time to spin a basketball on one finger, using one hand (current record: 37.46 seconds)

- Most basketball half-court shots in one minute (current record: 4)

- Highest forward flip trampoline slam dunk (current record: 10 feet, 9 inches)

- Most slam dunk bounce passes in 30 seconds (current record: 21)

- Furthest forward flip trampoline slam dunk (current record: 19 feet, 2 inches)

- Most basketball forward flip slam dunks in 30 seconds (current record: 17)

* Both records currently held by the Milwaukee Bucks Rim Rockers, set on February 14, 2008, at the NBA All-Star Jam Session in New Orleans, LA.

In addition to the six records listed above, the Bucks will also attempt to set three records that have never before been recorded. A member of the dunk team will attempt to complete the first-ever double front flip dunk on record during halftime. The final two record attempts will not be disclosed until Saturday night, but there are currently no official records on file for either one, meaning that any fan in attendance at Saturday’s game will be a part of the crowd that sets the original marks for two Guinness World Records.

[source: insidehoops dot com]

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McGrady came back

McGrady came back, the Rockets led by as much as 22, and even with a few tense moments in the fourth quarter, they had little trouble holding off the Golden State Warriors, 119-108 before 19,276 on Friday at Oracle Arena.

In his first game back after missing seven to rest his sore left knee, McGrady had his season highs for assists (nine) and rebounds (10), and scored 24 points, playing 34 minutes without showing any difficulty with the knee.

Yao Ming and Luis Scola each had 19 points, with Carl Landry adding 18, as the Rockets led all but a few seconds of the game.

This did not quite match their previous meeting with Golden State, largely because when the Rockets built their 22-point fourth-quarter lead, the Warriors rallied back.

Not quite like last week

When the Rockets met the Warriors a week earlier, the Rockets set or matched season bests for points (131), margin of victory (19), points in a first half (62), points in either half (69), assists (23), 3-pointers (13), 3-point shooting percentage (61.9), free throws (36) and free throws attempted (40).

The Warriors got the hint and decided to change things up. They shifted from the double-teams on Yao that worked so poorly in the loss at Toyota Center, to a fronting defense, with Andris Biedrins working to deny Yao the ball. That did not work much better, and when their next plan was to shift to a small, lineup of guards around Biedrins, the defense somehow became even worse.

With Stephen Jackson playing power forward, the Rockets got the ball to Scola let him go to work the way Yao had in the fourth quarter a week before.

Scola scored 10 points in the first 41/2 minutes of the second half, taking the lead to 17. When Rafer Alston swished a 3 from 28 feet out to beat the shot clock, the Rockets had their largest lead at 76-56.

They eventually pushed it to as much as 22, and it seemed that with most of the fourth quarter to go, the Rockets might be tempted to send McGrady and Yao to Los Angeles early. But the Rockets began to coast too early, the Warriors cut the lead to 17, and with eight minutes left, Yao and McGrady were back on the floor.

McGrady scored on a layup. Yao took a pass from Scola for a dunk.

They returned the lead to 20, enough to spend the rest of the game biding time before moving on to the second half of the back-to-back.

The Warriors threw a run at them, cutting the lead to 11, but the Rockets needed only an occasional basket to close out the win.

The Rockets did have other accomplishments to mark the occasion.

They had their planned starting lineup together for the first time this season. Though Ron Artest was out, resting his sprained right ankle, McGrady and Shane Battier were healthy at the same time, giving the Rockets their seventh starting lineup this season.

Playing for the first time since Nov. 24, McGrady got off to a rapid start, hitting his first shot (a 3-pointer) and getting seven points, three rebounds, two assists and a steal in his first eight minutes on the floor, as the Rockets took a 22-15 lead.

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