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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
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…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· 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 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,…
· Andre D. Williams
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.…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· Andre D. Williams
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.…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Allen Iverson has bad news for the Milwaukee Bucks. He won’t sit idly by while the Philadelphia 76ers play a crucial Game 4 of the Eastern Conference best-of-seven finals today at 5:30 at the Bradley Center. “I’m all right,” Iverson said Sunday, though still aching with a deep…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Tyrone Hill sat on a picnic table outside the Bradley Center, waiting for the Philadelphia 76ers team bus, so he could go back to the hotel, call his mother in Cincinnati and find out how his dad was doing. His dad is in intensive care, struggling with complications from…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Without their leader — their scoring machine — and with other players trying to answer the call, the Philadelphia 76ers had to struggle to avoid a massacre by the Milwaukee Bucks. Six times the Sixers pulled even. Twice they pulled ahead. But Milwaukee never stopped running,…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Larry Brown and Allen Iverson may fall together in the Eastern Conference finals or they may triumph. Either way it will be a story, an addition to the incredible tale they’ve written this season with the Philadelphia 76ers. They both stand tall among the giants of the NBA,…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Allen Iverson stayed in the Philadelphia 76ers’ team hotel. Maybe Tyrone Hill and Eric Snow should have stayed with him Saturday night. What Hill and Snow gave the Sixers in the Game 3 80-74 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks in the Eastern Conference best-of-seven finals was 10 points…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The battered, bruised, struggling Allen Iverson has arrived here with the Philadelphia 76ers. But the important news may not come until game time. For now, all the Sixers can do is hold their breath, as if they were watching a last-second shot with the game on the line. What has…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Ray Allen’s definitely got game. He brought all of it, mostly a jump shot that destroyed the Philadelphia 76ers and helped the Milwaukee Bucks draw even in the Eastern Conference best-of-seven finals with a 92-78 victory in Game 2 Thursday night before a 20,998 crowd at the…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Ray Allen’s definitely got game. And he brought all of it to Philadelphia Thursday night. Mostly, it was Allen’s deadly jump shot that destroyed the Philadelphia 76ers and helped the Milwaukee Bucks draw even in the Eastern Conference best-of-seven finals with a 92-78 victory in…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →One of the greatest tributes Philadelphia 76ers coach Larry Brown had ever received in his 18-year NBA coaching career had already been given when he accepted the Red Auerbach Trophy as the NBA’s Coach of the Year Wednesday afternoon. Just as Brown was about to step away from…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Allen Iverson had a sore backside and a jump shot that was also hurting early on. He limped, he yelled, and then he flung his arms up in relief after hitting his first shot, a jump shot early in the second quarter that snapped an 0-for-9 beginning. He had more falls, even more…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Cheerleading is not something Craig “Speedy” Claxton figured he’d be doing a lot of this season after he was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers with the 20th overall pick in last June’s NBA draft. But there he was Sunday night, his heart pumping just as hard as those of the 10…
· Andre D. Williams
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