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Two towering men are now enraged with each other, both vowing to settle their disputes on the court in Game 4 of the NBA Finals Wednesday night at the First Union Center. Too much lip-bashing and lips-busted-from-elbows have gone on, and now centers Dikembe Mutombo of the…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →A fan was brutally wobbled, bloodied and floored as the buzzer sounded. Away from the melee in the stands, the Philadelphia 76ers probably felt like they had been knocked out, but not by Shaquille O’Neal or Kobe Bryant, the two Los Angeles Lakers players known for delivering…
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Read on mcall.com →Kool and the Gang probably should have been on hand to sing “It’s a celebration” Sunday outside the First Union Center. The City of Brotherly Love had not rocked like this, some said, in 18 years. That was the last time the Philadelphia 76ers played in the NBA Finals against the…
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Read on mcall.com →Phil Jackson doesn’t want to hear about the Philadelphia 76ers’ injuries and that his Los Angeles Lakers team isn’t that suited for grit-and-grind games. “That’s ludicrous,” Jackson said of the Lakers not being able to grind-it-out. “To get in this position, you have to have a…
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Read on mcall.com →Don’t feel sad about the Philadelphia 76ers losing Game 2 of the NBA Finals to the Los Angeles Lakers. You want to know what sadness is? It’s getting a phone call on your cell phone minutes before the start of a Game 2, and hearing that your kid sister had died in a fire.…
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Read on mcall.com →The first blow was delivered by Philadelphia, the next one by Los Angeles. Now, it’s an NBA Finals best-of-seven series that’s deadlocked 1-1 after two games. Sweep talk is gone, and so is the Lakers’ invincible air that was generated during a 19-game winning streak, including…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Apparently, there has been a wrongfully perceived notion that the Philadelphia 76ers would play the role of underdog well and get rolled over by the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals. Apparently, that just won’t happen, not even in the dreams of Lakers fans, mostly those…
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Read on mcall.com →Aaron McKie is not about the rest now. The Philadelphia 76ers’ starting point guard limped around Thursday with a protective boot that team trainer Lenny Currier fitted him with to help ease the discomfort of the chip fracture McKie suffered in his left ankle in Game 1 of the…
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Read on mcall.com →Happy 26th birthday Allen Iverson. Way to celebrate early, torching the Los Angeles Lakers for 48 points in leading the Philadelphia 76ers to a 107-101 victory in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. “I don’t know if guys that they were playing against were scared of them,” Iverson said…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Philadelphia 76ers had the best record in the NBA — 41-14 — when coach Larry Brown and general manager Billy King looked into their crystal ball and saw the menacing prospect of facing 7-1, 330-pound Shaquille O’Neal of the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals. Who was going…
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Read on mcall.com →Allen Iverson, NBA MVP, came to showtime, and was the biggest star in a Staples Center assemblage that included Oscar and Grammy winners. He made big shots early, performed heroically in overtime, and then exuberantly danced off the court, drenched with sweat and in need of a…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Allen Iverson and Kobe Bryant will have at least four games to dazzle the world with their skills in the NBA Finals, which began with Game 1 Wednesday night at the Staples Center. And NBA Commissioner David Stern is ready to be dazzled. Stern made special note of how impressed…
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Read on mcall.com →I exited the Los Angeles International Airport and thought that I had arrived on Fantasy Island Tuesday afternoon. Palm trees, sunshine, cool and relaxing temperatures. If that’s not luxury living, then what is? This is the life, West Coast style. There’s everything to love…
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Read on mcall.com →Raja Bell has gone from NBA reject to NBA bench warmer, and now to a player who’s accomplished something with the Philadelphia 76ers that has league MVP Allen Iverson in awe. Bell got the Philadelphia fans to chant, “Raja Bell ….Raja Bell” in the first half of Game 7 of the…
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Read on mcall.com →Allen Iverson’s arms are not getting tired from hoisting postseason trophies in the air. There’s still one more he’d like to kiss and hold. Whether he’ll get to depends on whether David, which is the Philadelphia 76ers, can slay Goliath, Sixers coach Larry Brown’s…
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Read on mcall.com →As guaranteed by center Dikembe Mutombo, the Philadelphia 76ers are going to the NBA Finals in a true East versus West matchup. Can Hollywood handle them? The Milwaukee Bucks, with All-Star guard Ray Allen aching from a hard fall in the third quarter, couldn’t, because they…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →As guaranteed by center Dikembe Mutombo, the Philadelphia 76ers are going to the NBA Finals in a true East versus West matchup. Can the Los Angeles Lakers handle them? The Milwaukee Bucks, with All-Star guard Ray Allen aching from a hard fall in the third quarter, sure couldn’t,…
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Read on mcall.com →Let’s get my prediction out of the way: Philadelphia will win. Not just because the 76ers’ Dikembe Mutombo and Allen Iverson both said they are going to beat the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 7 tonight at the First Union Center to clinch the Eastern Conference Finals. No, I just…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Los Angeles Lakers don’t know it yet, but they will be playing the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA Finals. Sixers center Dikembe Mutombo guarantees it. And Mutombo, the league’s Defensive Player of the Year, has been right with all his other postseason predictions this year.…
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Read on mcall.com →Eric Snow looked up at the giant man walking into the press room at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Thursday, and the Philadelphia 76ers guard asked, “Am I a warrior?” “Yeah, you are Willis Reed Jr.,” said Sixers center Dikembe Mutombo. Relive the moment to…
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Read on mcall.com →All around the sold out First Union Center, people stood, clapping, screaming, and perhaps some even praying as Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals between the Philadelphia 76ers and Milwaukee Bucks came down to a breathtaking conclusion. How many hearts stopped as…
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Read on mcall.com →Down by a game and with everybody wondering how effective league MVP Allen Iverson would be in his return from injury, the Philadelphia 76ers blinked little and took out the Milwaukee Bucks. Some may say the Bucks’ Ray Allen tried to take out Iverson with an elbow to the mouth…
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Read on mcall.com →Maybe somebody from the Green Bay Packers could have kept Allen Iverson down. The Milwaukee Bucks sure couldn’t. Battered from falling seven times on his already bruised tailbone and later bloodied from a Ray Allen elbow to the mouth, Iverson scored the Philadelphia 76ers’ final…
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Read on mcall.com →Two days of reflecting and gathering himself mentally appeared to be all Philadelphia 76ers forward Tyrone Hill needed. He no longer missed short-range jumpers. He no longer fumbled and turned the ball over. Hill had three subpar games, in which he scored a total of 15 points.…
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