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Another offensive answer may have been discovered by the Sixers in a 79-69 victory over the Miami Heat Wednesday night before a sellout crowd of 20,562 at the First Union Center. The answer was Rodney Buford, a second-year pro who was signed on Dec. 23 as an insurance policy a…
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Read on mcall.com →The hardwood floor at Memorial Gymnasium opened up like the runway at nearby Lehigh Valley International Airport for Central Catholic’s Daniel Hinds in the second half Tuesday night. With the lanes to the basket more clear, his passion to score and take command of the game…
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Read on mcall.com →The final 24 hours before Thursday’s NBA trade deadline were dreadful for Philadelphia 76ers coach Larry Brown. Almost as dreadful as they were for the players who were wondering if they were about to be dealt away from the team with the league’s best record and from teammates…
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Read on mcall.com →Central Catholic seniors Daniel Hinds and Andrew Guman handled the ending with poise — not celebrating too much — just walking off the court slowly following the Vikings’ 59-41 victory over Blue Mountain in a District 11 Class 3A quarterfinal Friday at Dieruff High. Whitehall…
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Read on mcall.com →Philadelphia 76ers guard Allen Iverson had the Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant and the Phoenix Suns’ Jason Kidd helpless trying to defend him. That made Bryant and Kidd members of a growing club of guards around the NBA who have failed to hold Iverson in check. Iverson has 28…
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Read on mcall.com →After waiting 58 days and missing 15 home games, Sixers center Matt Geiger couldn’t wait to get the ball in his hands, score a basket, and hear the crowd cheer. His first basket, a layup, off an Eric Snow pass 1:33 into the game Sunday against the Phoenix Suns at the First Union…
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Read on mcall.com →At 21, Lamar Odom has a brighter vision of the future for the Los Angeles Clippers than almost anybody outside of the organization could possibly have. Others look at the Clippers and see seven straight losing seasons, and an agonizing current season that has included losing…
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Read on mcall.com →There were big shots, one after another. There were devastating fastbreaks, capped by behind-the-back or deftly delivered passes for dunks. There were defensive stands, incredible in the hard, fierce way they were carried out. Whatever it took, the Sixers had the means and…
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Read on mcall.com →The black arm bands worn by the Emmaus High boys basketball team were a tribute to their former classmates and swim team members Tom Gray and Matt Kush, who were killed in an automobile accident early last Saturday morning. The game, an East Penn Conference tournament semifinal…
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Read on mcall.com →On the eve of the 50th NBA All-Star Weekend last Thursday, the towering San Antonio Spurs carried an eight-game winning streak into Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, N.J., to play the so-so New Jersey Nets. So-so, however, is not the way the Nets played, thanks to…
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Read on mcall.com →Allen Iverson can’t be stopped. Not when he’s racing the court with a serious mission, slicing between defenders to score off the types of shots average basketball players can only dream about making. Iverson is the superstar of the Philadelphia 76ers, who at times plays like…
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Read on mcall.com →Two of the game’s biggest, most glamorous and most talented stars are here this All-Star Weekend, and everybody is shaking their heads at the Los Angles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal. They see Bryant, an immensely talented 6-7 swingman who can take control of a game…
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Read on mcall.com →Larry Brown’s genius and leadership is not restricted to his coaching career or his family life. Brown also works wonders on the golf course, something Houston Rockets coach Rudy Tomjanovich had the pleasure of finding out last summer while the two were coaching the USA Dream…
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Read on mcall.com →Professional basketball player and crowd rouser Allen Iverson of the Philadelphia 76ers has a serious question. “How can there be racism at basketball games?” Iverson asked Thursday night following a standout 31-point performance at Madison Square Garden and a day before being…
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Read on mcall.com →Tyrone Hill found himself in foreign territory, forced to shoot a 3-pointer with the 24-second shot clock winding down for the Philadelphia 76ers. That was not comfortable territory for Hill, the 6-9 power forward who is 0-for-12 on 3-point attempts in his 11-year career. Hill…
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Read on mcall.com →Wilson’s horror show of missing fourth-quarter free throws lasted until the final 21/2 minutes of this Colonial League game Tuesday night at Catasauqua’s Lincoln Gymnasium. That’s when senior guard Joe Templeton, Wilson’s coolest and most accurate shooter, stepped to the fore to…
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Read on mcall.com →Jerry Stackhouse is just like all prolific scorers. Every shot looks good to him. And the former No. 1 Philadelphia 76ers draft pick who’s been wearing a Detroit Pistons uniform the last three seasons, doesn’t get tired of shooting. Actually, Stackhouse believes the only way the…
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Read on mcall.com →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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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