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HOUSTON -- Dwight Howard is happy and healthy in Houston, and coach Kevin McHale is pleased with how his superstar centre has played so far this season. Cheap Columbus Blue Jackets Jerseys . Howard scored 23 points, James Harden and Chandler Parsons each had 19 and the Rockets used a big third-quarter run to pull away for a 109-94 win over the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night. "Hes just got a nice rhythm," McHale said of Howard. "When he goes fast there is a reason to go fast. When he goes slow, hes setting guys up. Basketball is such a game of rhythm and hes in a nice flow right now." Howard joined the Rockets in July after one tumultuous season with the Lakers. He said hes feeling good, but has been spending extra time after practice working on his post moves in an attempt to improve. "I love it here," he said. "Its a great place to be. Were having some early success, but were not happy with where were at. We want to continue to get better. We dont want to get satisfied." The Rockets are 17-9 and in second place in the Southwest Division behind San Antonio. The Bulls trailed by three with 5 1/2 minutes left in the third before their offence went cold. Houston took advantage of the scoring drought, using a 15-1 spurt to make it 83-66 entering the final period. "That was tremendous," Harden said. "Weve been striking out these last couple of games in closing quarters and Coach has been preaching to us to make sure we go on a little run to close every quarter out. Tonight we did it and weve got to be consistent with that." Chicago missed six shots and had five turnovers in that decisive stretch, while Omri Casspi scored seven points to power Houstons offence. The Rockets picked up the victory in the return of McHale, who had missed the previous three games following the death of his mother. Jimmy Butlers 20 points tied his season high and led the Bulls, who have dropped three in a row and 12 of 15. "Were losing, so mentally its tough," Chicagos Joakim Noah said. "When you lose, its not fun but we have to keep battling. The games keep coming and nobody feels sorry for us and we cant feel sorry for ourselves." Harden started despite spraining his left ankle Sunday night. He had scored at least 25 points in five consecutive games. Harden said he got stepped on again on Wednesday night and was very sore after the game. He figures hell feel worse on Thursday. "Probably," he said. "I try not to think about it. Well wait until tomorrow and see how it feels." Howard had nine rebounds and Harden had six assists and three steals. Bulls point guard Kirk Hinrich missed his third consecutive game because of back stiffness. D.J. Augustin, signed on Friday, made his first start for Chicago in Hinrichs place. He finished with eight points and nine assists. Luol Deng scored 18 points for Chicago. Carlos Boozer had 17 and Taj Gibson added 14. "At the end of the day it comes down to the fact that we have to get guys healthy," Boozer said. "It seems like we are always missing somebody, but well do the best we can to fight through it." With 11 1/2 minutes left in the fourth quarter, Deng scored Chicagos first basket since there were more than 5 minutes left in the third. Casspi scored four points soon after that to extend Houstons lead to 89-70. Patrick Beverley had 15 points, Casspi added 11 and Terrence Jones had a career-high six assists for Houston. The Bulls used a 10-4 run to cut the lead to 68-65 with about 5 1/2 minutes left in the third. Augustin scored five points in that stretch and Butler added a 3-pointer. Casspi ended the run with a 3 and Howard tacked on a dunk a minute after that to start Houstons big surge. Deng got Chicago within eight points late in the second quarter, but Beverley extended Houstons lead to 57-46 at halftime when Deng fell down and he sank an off-balance 3 at the buzzer. Officials at first said it didnt count, but a review showed he got it off in time. NOTES: Houston PG Jeremy Lin missed his second straight game with back spasms. ... Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said he doesnt expect Hinrich to be out for an extended period. Jerseys NFL Cheap . Beckham joined the club amid a whirl of flashbulbs last week in an unexpected move, signing a five-month deal until the end of the season. cheap jerseys . Blackhawks coach Joe Quenneville announced Tuesday that goaltender Corey Crawford will miss three weeks with a groin injury. http://www.cheap-nhljerseys.us.com/ . Zimmermann (7-1) allowed nine hits and two runs in 7 2/3 innings, struck out five and walked none. Harper left the game in the fifth after hitting the scoreboard wall face-first while tracking a ball hit by A.J. Ellis over his left shoulder. He never looked at the wall and when he finally turned, he was on top of it. cheap jerseys from china .C. -- Cam Ward couldnt have picked a better way to record his 200th NHL victory. cheap jerseys from china . This time, they did it with offence. Paul Pierce scored 27 points, Kevin Garnett added 24 points and nine rebounds, and the Celtics made their first eight shots of the fourth quarter to hold off the Heat 115-107 on Tuesday night. JOLIET, Ill. -- Brad Keselowski used a dominating run Saturday to win the Nationwide Series race at Chicagoland Speedway, where he hoped to carry some momentum into the opening round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. Keselowski capitalized on Carl Edwards running out of gas on pit road to grab a sizable lead that was never challenged. He beat Edwards to the finish line by 8.568 seconds for his third victory of the season. It was the first win for the defending Nationwide champion since his July victory at Indianapolis. He broke his left ankle in a crash while testing at Road Atlanta four days after that win, and sat out three scheduled races as he healed. He returned to NASCARs second-tier series three weeks ago, and broke through for the win on the eve of the opening round of the Chase. Keselowski won two Cup races after he was injured to storm through the standings and claim one of the two wild-card berths into the Chase field. What does the win do for his chances Sunday? "Theres always the confidence, thats the biggest thing," said Keselowski, who will start sixth in the first of the 10 Chase races. "I think were on a good stretch. We havent even started the Chase. I like what were doing on the Nationwide side, and hopefully theres some momentum and all those good things, good karma paying off and paying forward on the Cup side. "But as of right now, its just the Nationwide race, and tomorrow is tomorrow." Keselowski led four times for 158 of the 200 laps. Edwards, another Chase driver, rallied from the fuel miscue to finish second. "I had a really good time racing with Brad about halfway through the race for the lead, that was a lot of fun," Edwards said. "We just had a little trouble there on pit road. Ran out of fuel, then we had a really long green flag run. I would have liked the opportunity to race Brad, I guess we just didnt get that caution." But even after Edwards trailed Keselowski by a large margin for the final green-flag run, which stretched 131 laps, he praised NASCAR for not calling a suspect caution just to bunch the field back together. "I really applaud NASCAR for letting the race run its course. Annything can happen," Edwards said. Cheap Vancouver Canucks Jerseys. "I think too often NASCAR is quick to throw cautions. I think they showed me and everybody that if there is nothing out there and no reason to throw a caution then they wont. I think it lends a lot of credibility to the series and they showed today that they dont mind that a guy is out there with a seven or eight-second lead. They will let the race run its course. "I think that is a big statement for them to make before the Chase starts." Edwards isnt so sure, though, what kind of statement Keselowski made for the Chase. "It is definitely two different series," Edwards said. "I cant tell you how many times I have run so well on Saturday and struggled on Sunday because it is so tough. They are two separate events." Keselowski is already considered a threat to challenge for the Sprint Cup title based on the run he reeled off after his Aug. 3 crash. He won the Cup race four days later at Pocono, was second at Watkins Glen, third at Michigan and then won at Bristol. There were many who speculated Keselowskis surge in Sprint Cup was due to him sitting out of the Nationwide Series. He insisted Saturday theres no correlation. "I dont think its fair to a lot of different people and to reality," Keselowski said. "The reality of it is we have become more successful as a team as weve been able to execute the weekend on the Cup side, and part of the reasons why were executing the weekend better are just plain luck. That didnt have anything to do with driving a Nationwide car the day before ... I just dont connect the two." Brian Scott matched his previous career-best finish of third, earned at Chicagoland in July 2010. "Racing with the Cup guys is the best experience that a Nationwide guy can get," Scott said. "Youre not going to get to that level unless youre racing them. Today, I think it shows where our performance is capable of as a team in a field full of a lot of Cup drivers. Im proud of the effort and we just need to keep having runs like this to make it happen more often." Aric Almirola was fourth and Sam Hornish Jr. finished a career-best fifth. ' ' '
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