Doing Lines: Brandon Roy Has Loaded Dice!

Every night there are some stupendous, silly, stupid, or downright outlandish individual lines from around the lig. Doing Lines lets you know which one tops the list.

Brandon Roy brought a thief class for Saturday's game in Paul Allen's basement, and Washington's mages Wizards just couldn't hang. Roy rolled 20 after 20 on his pickpocket attempts, and ended up with a whopping 10 steals in a fairly low-possession game.

Caron Butler, despite good scoring output (31 points), had almost as many turnovers (nine) as the entire Blazers roster (10). To go with his steals, Roy offered 22 points, five rebounds, seven assists and two blocks. Roy, you are overpowered. When will the Dungeon Master take control of this thing?!

Speaking of magic ... : Look at the box score and tell me how Miami beat Orlando. Sure, Dwyane Wade (typical) was stupendous, with 27/8/6. Mario Chalmers got buckets (20 points on 12 FGAs). But the real number: only four turnovers for the Heat ... and two of them came from Mark Blount. When you protect the ball, you end up with a lot more FGAs than you'd otherwise get. Despite iffy work on the offensive glass, Miami had 78 FGAs to Orlando's 69.

The Ewing Theory debunked: Well, for one game at least. Elton Brand returned for Philadelphia, playing 13 minutes off the bench. Six points and three rebounds for E.B., and a big Philadelphia win over the resurgent Knicks.