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Daily Dime: Mason to the rescue

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

SAN ANTONIO -- He makes the big shots and gets the crunch-time call when he collides in midair with Derek Fisher. Looks like Roger Mason is an even bigger free-agent steal than the San Antonio Spurs ever allowed themselves to believe. So we have to talk about that first. Remember that Mason dagger from the corner that beat Phoenix at the buzzer on Christmas Day? That was a yawn compared to the wild scenes of Wednesday night, when Mason was not only asked to replace Bruce Bowen as the Spurs' primary Kobe Bryant defender but also intersected in the final seconds with the most notorious Spurs Killer not named Kobe Bryant ... and out-Fishered him.

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