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Maurice Cheeks probably has more admiration for Allen Iverson than any of the other Sixers coaches. That’s because every time Cheeks looks at Iverson, he sees a player who continues to develop and mature while steadily increasing his scoring average. Cheeks sees a player who…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Waiting for a mid-term grade is a lot easier when the marks that have led up to it are excellent. Over the first half of the NBA’s 82-game regular season, the Philadelphia 76ers collected several high honors. Allen Iverson and Aaron McKie were selected Players of the Week in…
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Read on mcall.com →A thrilling game between Northwestern and Wilson came down to a foul that wasn’t made, a charge that wasn’t called, and a winning basket by Northwestern’s Aaron Foulk that set off an emotional display by players, coaches and rowdy fans. Foulk’s banker with 1.3 seconds left broke…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Even with his right elbow heavily bandaged, a bandaid under his chin and a sore left knee, Allen Iverson allowed nothing or no one keep him from scoring 51 points. It was his first game back following a one-game absence while resting a deep left knee bruise, and the 6-0 Iverson…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Allen Iverson and Vince Carter should have just gone one-on-one during a 4-minute stretch of the third quarter. They were doing all the scoring, anyway, sinking jumpers and scoring off drives. But the 6-0 Iverson probably couldn’t guard the 6-6 Carter, and Carter probably wants…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Allen Iverson is a tough man in a basketball uniform, unwilling to rest his aching body for extended periods of time. He proved that when he returned to the Philadelphia 76ers lineup five days after dislocating his shoulder to score 29 points against the Golden State Warriors…
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Read on mcall.com →Sixers coach Larry Brown and superstar Allen Iverson, who squabbled so much last season that doubts repeatedly circulated about them being able to co-exist on the same team, are now headed to Washington together. And on the ride with them will be 6-10 Theo Ratliff, whose long…
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Read on mcall.com →Dieruff could have picked any one of 10 players on the Central Catholic roster that have played significant minutes, and it’s unlikely the Huskies would have figured Jim Birkhead to be the one to bust them up. In fact, most Central Catholic opponents would probably think the…
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Read on mcall.com →He is the money man, delivery man, garbage man, and lately guard Aaron McKie has been the Philadelphia 76ers’ most valuable player. On Tuesday, McKie was honored as the NBA’s Player of the Week for the 22.3 points, 8.7 assists and 6.0 rebounds he averaged in the Sixers’ three…
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Read on mcall.com →Allen sophomore Raymond Barbosa came to the free throw line, his cheeks blown up as he stared at the basket inside Central Catholic’s Rockne Hall. He was about to attempt two free throws with 35 seconds left in overtime that, if converted, could lift Allen to its fourth straight…
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Read on mcall.com →Building blocks and gaining a measure of respect and perhaps develop an identity to be reckoned with by Mountain Valley Conference opponents the rest of the season is all Easton had to work for in the second half. The Red Rovers are in the midst of another down season and they…
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Read on mcall.com →More truths will be told as the high school basketball season ages and teams mature and settle on an identity. Right now, Emmaus doesn’t appear to be one of those teams searching for anything. The Green Hornets know what they are about, and they have victories over Parkland,…
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Read on mcall.com →While All-Star guard Allen Iverson won’t be doing what he does best during the holiday season, Rodney Buford will be opening the one gift he had been hoping for since being waived by the Charlotte Hornets on Oct. 2. That gift is the opportunity to play in the NBA again, and not…
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Read on mcall.com →Vacation time would be a welcome sight for the Philadelphia 76ers right now, but the NBA schedule affords them only today and Monday off before they must take their aching bodies and depleted lineup out West for games this week against Utah, Golden State and Sacramento. They’ll…
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Read on mcall.com →Nobody can say that the Philadelphia 76ers are afraid to take huge chances, even players like Toni Kukoc, who has been in the coach’s doghouse all season. Doghouse or not, Kukoc had a chance to extend a game the Sixers had well within their grasp until the Utah Jazz and their…
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Read on mcall.com →Coach Larry Brown and the Philadelphia 76ers were back together Wednesday night, on the same page, focused on building on their 18-6 record, and hoping that they could somehow keep their family business in-house. But they play and coach in the NBA, a league in which egos seem to…
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Read on mcall.com →Respond to the challenges put out by your coach blazing at you from all angles or take a nose dive to lose a third-straight home game. Take your pick. That was the dilemma facing the Philadelphia 76ers against the Utah Jazz Wednesday night before 19,428 at the First Union…
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Read on mcall.com →Playing with a sizeable lead is something Liberty has not adjusted to just yet. It did not cost Liberty Tuesday night, but the Hurricanes’ 52-44 victory was aided by an Easton team that went through too many cold stretches in a meeting of Mountain Valley Conference teams at…
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Read on mcall.com →Money, fame and highlight-reel dunks are far from what Sacramento Kings forward Chris Webber is out for these days. These are the not-so-rowdy days for Webber in Sacramento, his NBA home the last three seasons. There is no Latrell Sprewell or Rod Strickland to bring the growl…
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Read on mcall.com →The Central Catholic girls will press you out of your shorts and shoes if you allow them. They will rattle your brain and force you to forget the offensive set you are supposed to be in. They will make you rush your shot, almost wilt at the sound of their footsteps. Basically,…
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Read on mcall.com →In a fitting closing highlight to a Colonial League boys basketball game that had moved at a crowd-pleasing, up-tempo pace, Salisbury’s George Hoffman broke loose on a two-on-one fastbreak. Instead of finishing off the advantage himself as he had done so marvelously throughout…
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Read on mcall.com →Injured point guard Eric Snow is scheduled to have his right ankle operated on today in Houston in a surgical process that Philadelphia 76ers team doctor Jack McPhilemy expects will lead to the end of Snow’s ankle ailments. Snow will have bone grafting with placement of two…
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Read on mcall.com →All the proof has been provided. More will surely follow over the next four months of the NBA season before the playoffs begin. By then, the Philadelphia 76ers should be sitting pretty high, in all likelihood as Atlantic Division champions and as the top seed in the Eastern…
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Read on mcall.com →Less than two seconds remained in overtime when Notre Dame freshman Jeff Dailey had the ball kicked out to him in the corner, just inside the 3-point line. A fastbreak thriller, the type of game fans enjoy and players have more fun with, was just an 18-foot jump shot away from…
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