Barbosa, Harrison Barnes and especially Shaun Livingston all shined, scoring a combined 44 points, taking turns catching fire, passing the torch to one another as each managed to build then hold Golden State's oft double digit lead. .
In the middle of the set was a fire lava pit providing fire for the torches, which represented the castaways' life in the game.
The effect of the play was as of a punch to the gut and the smell of fire from the torches lingered long after the end.
The London Olympics soon descended into farce when Tube workers called a three-week strike and Boris Johnson set his hair on fire while carrying the torch at the opening ceremony.
While my colleague Peter Bonilla does an excellent job taking this willful blindness to pieces on FIRE's blog The Torch, one part of his statement demands particular scorn.
Only nine years later, in 2011, the Wallow fire picked up the torch, so to speak, and burned across the Rim all the way to the New Mexico border and beyond, topping out at 538,000 charred acres.
Though the fire torched the couple's plans, the group got creative and headed for the beach.
It's time to take back the torch (fire, flame, insert red-hair analogy).
Of course, when a major typhoon like Haiyan hits the Philippines, or Sandy hammers the East Coast, or the Rim fire torches the Sierra or Hurricane Katrina swamps New Orleans, we call these events "natural disasters" or even "acts of God".
Nancy O'Malley said her office is investigating the fire, which torched the building during an unpermitted concert.
