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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
Read on mcall.com →One more step. That’s what the Philadelphia 76ers made when they edged the Toronto Raptors by a point to advance to the Eastern Conference best-of-seven finals against the Milwaukee Bucks. One more step. That’s what the Sixers will try to make, first by winning Game 1 tonight at…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Allen Iverson knew that he had to do something special with the ball, only what he did was not light the nets on fire. Instead, he helped his teammates do that by breaking out of double teams and passing the ball to open guys, like Jumaine Jones and Aaron McKie. And they hit…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Nobody can possibly know all that’s going on inside Allen Iverson’s head as the clock ticks down to the first Game 7 playoff game of his five-year career. Winning is obviously his main concern, but he has to have so many other things swirling around. His veins are probably…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →It’s hammer time for the Philadelphia 76ers. “When you have a chance to put a team out, you want to put them out,” said Sixers guard Eric Snow following practice Thursday at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Snow and his teammates were preparing to board a plane for…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Allen Iverson lit the fire early and kept fueling the drive, pumping up the fans with dazzling moves, rainbow jumpers, fadeaways and blazing moves into the land of giants. Forward Tyrone Hill, who had been somewhat missing in action, also stepped up. So did a lot of other Sixers…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Sixers had to know it was going to be their night to run rampant over the Toronto Raptors when Tyrone Hill scored back-to-back transition baskets early in the second quarter. Allen Iverson was already scoring at will and talking mad trash to Raptors guard Chris Childs.…
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Read on mcall.com →The Sixers’ problem child is no longer that big of a worry. Coach Larry Brown and general manager Billy King saw to it by deciding to sideline aching and always complaining backup center Matt Geiger indefinitely. Geiger had been limited to just four minutes in the Eastern…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Allen Iverson was far from himself as he stood at the podium at the Adams Mark Hotel Tuesday afternoon, discussing the trials he had to overcome en route to winning the NBA’s Most Valuable Player Award by a landslide. “He was nervous up there,” said Gene Lett, a good friend of…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Sixers might not see the same Antonio Davis tonight. The Toronto Raptors power forward, who has given the Sixers fits in the first four games, has a strained muscle in his left arm and may not play as effectively in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference best-of-seven series…
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