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  • NEW YORK -- The New York Jets have waived former first-round pick Vernon Gholston after three disappointing seasons. The defensive end was the sixth pick of the 2008 draft out of Ohio State. He made just five starts and didnt record a sack in 45 regular-season games. Gholston didnt play in any of the Jets playoff games last season. The Jets also said Wednesday they had released backup tight end Ben Hartsock Mike Iupati Womens Jersey . Brendan Jensen made 26 saves Friday as Vancouver defeated the Royals 5-2 in Victorias first WHL regular-season game in 17 years. Eric Wright Jersey . Petr Holik, Tomas Filippi, Dominik Uher, Vojtech Mozik and Radek Faksa each scored for the Czechs, who bowed out of medal contention in the quarter-finals against Russia. http://www.49ersnflofficialjerseys.com/authentic-colin-kaepernick-jersey-womens.html . Messi, the three-time world player of the year, has 90 goals in 2012, surpassing Gerd Muellers 40-year-old milestone of 85 in a calendar year. 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Now, the Nuggets are out to disprove the notion that NBA teams cant push the pace in the playoffs. Coaches tend to shrink their benches in the post-season, when they run more set plays in the halfcourt that slow the flow and keeps players logging all those minutes from getting worn down. The third-seeded Nuggets were delighted when Golden State secured the sixth seed, and not because Denver won the season series 3-1 or on account of Andrew Bogut being the only Warriors starter who has ever been to the playoffs. No, its because the Warriors also like to run, run, run. And when Game 1 tips off Saturday afternoon at the Pepsi Center, these two teams are pledging to ignore history and conventional playoff wisdom for a high-octane, run-and-shoot series that should make for riveting television. "Its going to be a fun series," Nuggets point guard Ty Lawson said. "Its going to be one of the most exciting first-round matchups. We both like to get up and down the court. Its going to be high-scoring." "Its going to be up-tempo," Warriors guard Stephen Curry agreed. "Thats the way we want to play and we want to try what we do best. Thats what they do well, as well. I dont foresee us trying to change the tempo just because theyre a fast-paced team. If we can get back and play strong transition D, we should be all right. We havent done that well against them. Thats a difference-maker for us." Denver led the league with a 106.1-point average this season, but if theres any team that can keep up with the Nuggets at altitude — where Denver has won 23 straight games — it could be the Warriors, led by David Lee and Curry, who broke Ray Allens record for most 3-pointers made in a season. Although Kenneth Faried (ankle) is day to day and Danilo Gallinari (ACL) is out, the Nuggets wont slow down any now that Lawson, their turbo-charging point guard has recovered from a torn right heel that sidelined him for eight games recently. "I feel like its good. Its not hurting no more, so Im ready to play," Lawson said. "Total relief. The last two games I played with no pain afterward, so I just get out there and play. At first with the pain I was having I didnt think I was going to be able to come back until sometime in the playoffs, so Im relieved that its back to 100 per cent." Faried hopes to play in the opener but coach George Karl said he wouldnt know until Saturday if his top rebounder will suit up for the series opener. Karl was hoping to get a look at Faried at a shootaround before the game but because its an afternoon tipoff, neither team will have a shootaround that day.dddddddddddd Lawsons injury allowed 20-year-old rookie Evan Fournier to log a lot of minutes this month and add yet another burner to the Nuggets deep roster, helping offset a little bit of Gallinaris absence. "Everybody says you cant run in the playoffs. I think you can run, but youve got to do it with your defence — a lot more probably in the playoffs than in the regular season," Karl said. "Youve got to make them miss shots, youve got to rebound the ball. Youve got to finish off defensive plays and youve got to create some offence with some turnovers and some shot blocks, which we, at times, have done very well this year." Lawson is eager to prove a team doesnt necessarily have to hit the brakes in the playoffs. "Were not going to switch up our game and try to slow it down," he said. "Well play it up-tempo. In the first round were playing against a team thats up-tempo, too, so I dont see it slowing down." Portland Trail Blazers coach Terry Stotts, a longtime friend and colleague of Karls, recently praised the work Karl has done with a roster built on speed, not superstars, one that features any number of go-to guys in crunch time and not a single prima donna who needs the ball in his hands when the games on the line. "A lot of players say they want to run but not all of them have the drive or the willingness to run every possession, and this group here in Denver has that," Stotts said. "They have the personnel to do it and theyve all bought into it and Im sure would say, I want to run more." Exactly, said Lawson, who professes to have no idea why teams traditionally go from greyhounds in the regular season to pokey puppies in the playoffs. "Were going to play our game regardless," Lawson said. "We play up-tempo anyway so were not trying to prove nobody wrong. Were just trying to play our game, get wins and win a championship." Yet, in all this talk about speed, the Nuggets were also talking about slowing down Curry. Lawson will start out with that defensive assignment but Andre Iguodala, their best wing defender, will square up plenty on Golden States golden shooter, too. Curry, coming off two injury-filled seasons, set an NBA record with 272 3-pointers this season. "It may be genetic," Karl said. Currys dad, Dell Curry, played for Karl in Milwaukee in the late 1990s. "His dad was a great shooter and its amazing, he probably is a better shooter," Karl said. "I coached Dell Curry for a couple of years. In fact, he was great. I think the younger Curry is a much better handler and knows how to play-make and be a point guard, whereas Dell was more just a shooter. He was a very good player, though, he helped me win a few games in my career." ___ AP Sports Writer Antonio Gonzalez contributed. ___ Follow AP Sports Writer Arnie Melendrez Stapleton on Twitter: http://twitter.com/arniestapleton ' ' '

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