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The Philadelphia 76ers’ season started with a 29-point drubbing of the New York Knicks on Halloween night at Madison Square Garden. It ended with a disappointing 108-96 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers Friday night in Game 5 of the NBA Finals, concluding a season of sterling…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →A big cloud of uncertainty hovers over the Philadelphia 76ers organization. And it has nothing to do with whom they will choose in the NBA draft, June 27. The most pressing matters are whether coach Larry Brown will return for a fifth season and whether team president Pat Croce…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The lights were dim, the court had been taken up and all the floor seats removed inside the First Union Center Saturday afternoon, less than 24 hours after the Philadelphia 76ers’ dreams of winning the NBA title were shattered by the Los Angeles Lakers. Light music played in the…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The heart, the hustle, and the fight were there for the Philadelphia 76ers until the end. But their prayer was left unanswered because every move they made was countered, every rally was cut short. The best from the West, those cocky and confident Los Angeles Lakers, weathered…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The NBA Finals have been a stage for Allen Iverson and Shaquille O’Neal to share, one in a display of flash, courage and creativity, the other in a display of power, destruction and — as O’Neal has proudly noted — occasional finesse. For the most part, the regular season was the…
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Read on mcall.com →The Fat Lady has started to get dressed and may sing tonight, a goodbye tune that the Philadelphia 76ers do not want to hear. The Sixers still have some fight left, still want to get a victory at home, and then take their injured and ragged bodies back to Los Angeles to try and…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The storm will soon turn to calm, words spoken amid a torrent of flying elbows will be forgotten, and Philadelphia 76ers coach Larry Brown and Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson will be remembered for the strategic moves they made to either win or lose in the NBA Finals.…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →As Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant continued to destroy them with uncontainable power and finesse, and as open 3-pointers fell through, all the Philadelphia 76ers could hope for was a break, some sort of slip up by the Los Angeles Lakers. But the Sixers needed to find the rim…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →As Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant continued to shake them up with an uncontrollable power and finesse game, and as open 3-pointers fell through, all the Philadelphia 76ers could seemingly hope for was a break, any slip up by the Los Angeles Lakers. But the Sixers needed to…
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Read on mcall.com →The NBA Finals have been everything Philadelphia 76ers power forward Tyrone Hill figured they would be, with the exception of Hill himself, who has not been a pretty sight. Like everyone else, he has begun to wonder where he’s been in the first three games of the series. He…
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Read on mcall.com →George Lynch is just as gritty as his Philadelphia 76ers teammates Eric Snow, Allen Iverson and Aaron McKie, all of whom could legitimately receive a doctor’s note to take the rest of the month off from work. Lynch, who fractured his left foot in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →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…
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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…
· Andre D. Williams
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.…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· Andre D. Williams
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