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Big impact.
There have been 20 players listed under 5-10 in NBA history, five since 1990. A few have had real impact on their team, but none, before the emergence this season of the Warriors' 5-5 Earl Boykins, has created a new role: the basketball closer.
Boykins, who signed with Golden State on November 27 and has not started a game, has become the team's go-to guy in the fourth quarter and has five 20-point games. He also has helped lead the Warriors to victories over top teams such as the Lakers, Nets, Hornets and Timberwolves, against whom he had 20 in the fourth quarter alone. "We didn't know what the hell to do," Minnesota forward Wally Szczerbiak said after Boykins laid waste the T-wolves' attempt to guard him with 6-5 Kendall Gill and to post him with 6-4 Anthony Peeler. "We really had no idea."
More to the point, they had no electron-quick defender able to stay close enough to Boykins to stop his deadly jumper. He's shooting 43.2 percent from 3-point range.
Against the Wizards, Boykins scored nine points in the fourth quarter, including the bucket that iced the game, a jumper over Larry Hughes with 15 seconds left. "That was a `flat' call," said Warriors coach Eric Musselman, "where we put everybody on the baseline but him and just told him to go do his thing."
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) November 15, 2009 700+ words
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...Clippers at Staples Center. It also spoiled a rally by the Clippers, who trailed by 13 points entering the fourth quarter. Earl Boykins, improvising after Stoudamire's basket when the Clippers' planned play broke down, missed a shot at the...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Thompson, Art, III February 18, 2002 700+ words
...Clippers at Staples Center. It also spoiled a rally by the Clippers, who trailed by 13 points entering the fourth quarter. Earl Boykins, improvising after Stoudamire's basket when the Clippers' planned play broke down, missed a shot at the...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Steinmetz, Matt December 10, 2002 700+ words
...careless play by Jason Richardson. But Earl Boykins, as he had done for the entire fourth quarter, bailed the Warriors out with a big...who had 11 of his 14 points in the fourth quarter, made two free throws each to seal the...