1.   -- Tell Shaq he is a basketball god.

2.   Coach Lavin says that if you put in the work, the basketball gods will reward you.

3.   Even the basketball gods took a powder on the Sonics.

4.   He pursed his lips into another circle and raised his arms to beseech the basketball gods for mercy.

5.   I thought the basketball gods were frowning on us a little bit.

6.   If only the basketball gods could bring back Jason Williams, please.

7.   Is he a basketball god chasing demons?

8.   Just to get to the first overtime period, the Mavericks had to depend on the basketball gods.

9.   Just a basketball god.

10.   Maybe the basketball gods and Mother Nature got together on that one.