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Well, this is the start of the All Star Game week, but before that extravanganza there is one more league game. And there's a couple good ones to be had on Saturday night.

First, the Vipers of Virginia will be traveling to the Alliance Arena, to face the hometown team, Alliance Knight. The Vipers are currently in 3rd place in the Great 8, sporting an 8-4 record. The Vipers' Starting SG Rajko Rankovic has been injured for a few weeks though, and may still miss this game. The Vipers could certainly use his 47% shooting and 23 PPG.

The Knight have a 9-3 record, using a consistent press defense to hinder the opponent's ball movement. They currently are in second place in the Big 8. However, the Knights have some injuries as well, with starting SF Shayne Pease being sidelined at the moment. Last year the Vipers pulled out an 8 point win on the road. Can they repeat that this year?

The other big matchup is undoubtedly the game between the two undefeated teams, Mr. Winless out of the Great 8, and Njord's Hakarl of the Big 8. Njordheim will host over 7000 rabid fans in the hope of watching their team break The Beast O'Byrne and stay out of the loss column. Both teams have their full rosters available, and surely after this tough match up, both will be ready for a short break during All Star Game week.

After the All Star Game, there's just 2 more interconference games before picking back up for a stretch of seven games where teams face off against each conference mate for the second time. Those games will likely determine exact playoff seedings!

Those were some excellent games, as the Vipers pulled out an incredible 1 point win in overtime against the Alliance Knight. Great job to VGcollector and their squad! Rankovic made it back for the game, and scored 20 points in 34 minutes. That performance helped secure his spot on the Great 8 AllStars.

In the battle of Mr. Winless and the Hakarl, we're happy that we were able to pull out a victory against Beast O'Byrne and his teammates. Once again O'Byrne was in foul trouble, and was forced to sit out the end of the game. All said, the Winless weren't able to overcome the Hakarl defense, and now sit tied with their Great 8 rival the minnesotagreeners. The greeners do host the Hakarl on the next game following the All Star Game. Perhaps their time at the top of the standings will be short lived?

Well we're at the halfway point of the season, and now starts the final stretch. It appears that all the actively managed teams are a lock to make the playoffs, with the main questions being home court advantage and bragging rights!

It will be home court advantage for the minnesota greeners if they pull out a big game at home after the allstar game aginst the hakarl. the key for the minnesota to win is by shooting from beyond the ark because the hakarls have no outside defence. If the Greeners excute their outside game pefectly there is no dought that they wont win the game.

Hee hee!

Holy cow that was an awesome game, going right to the end before the Hakarl ended up victorious.

Great game greeners!

Let's all say goodbye to the manager of the Texas Longhorns. His team went bot today, so that's one less real person in the league. Course, they never seemed to do much active managing, so perhaps it's not a great loss.