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What We Can Learn From The Celtics-Hawks Series Tickets, Let's say I came up to you before the playoffs started and asked you which series you thought was going seven games. Atlanta-Boston would have been the answer to the question?Which series is most likely to end up in a sweep? Instead, it's the only one that's going the distance. Not Spurs-Suns. Not Hornets-Mavs. Not Cavs-Witnesses. Not Jazz-Rockets. And it matters here because the Cavs get the winner in the next round. I'll admit: I want Boston to win. I'd love to see a Cavs-Celtics second.

Free Darko On San Antonio-New Orleans [Free Darko Presents] We're looking at every NBA Playoff series through the eyes of both Free Darko. Here's Free Darko's look at the Cleveland Cavaliers-Washington Wizards series. Your author is Bethlehem Shoals. Somehow, the Hornets/Mavericks series told us everything about Dallas, and nothing of NOLA's team. It hammered home the Mavs' reputation for fecklessness, prompted a clubhouse implosion and pushed Avery Johnson out the door. Josh Howard's strange, strange week hung from the clouds like an omen, obscuring . Dallas Mavericks Playoff Round 1 Home Game 4 (Date May Change) Tickets.

Friday Bullets Friday Bullets May 2, 2008 3:38 PM A very interesting check-in about the legal situation in Seattle, which paints an interesting picture about how some kind of settlement between the city and the team may be the best way to ensure Seattle gets another team one day. SonicsCentral is all over everything to do with this case, and adds.".I'm still boycotting the playoffs. I can't do it. I really want to root for Delonte but then I realize that we traded him for a pile of crap and some extra money. Cheap Dallas Mavericks Playoff Round 1 Home Game 4 (Date May Change) Tickets.

First Cup: Friday First Cup: Friday May 2, 2008 9:56 AM League-Wide Gil LeBreton of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.".To some of us, Devin Harris' inability to develop into a capable, dependable NBA point guard stands as one of Avery Johnson's notable failures. In the end, Avery, as teacher, was a surprising disappointment for this franchise. The decline of Josh Howard has to be prominently laid at his doorstep. Avery is no fool. He knows how to play the public end of the coaching game. NBA.

Wednesday?s Best - Two Game Fives and One Owings 5. George Herman Owings - Owings, Arizona's third starter, hit a game-tying pinch hit home run in the sixth inning of the Diamondbacks game against the Astros, a game  that Arizona eventually won 8-7.  The win was the 20th of the season for Arizona and by all indications this team is a legitimate problem.  Of equal importance to team's success, is individual success, as I think the old baseball adage goes.  And individual success is somet.hing Micah Owings has in spades. This season Owings. Dallas Mavericks Playoff Round 1 Home Game 4 (Date May Change).

Todays Date in NBA History (Boulder-CO) Today's date is May 1st, and on this day: '63 J. Walter Kennedy was named the NBA's second President, succeeding Maurice Podoloff. The job title was later changed to Commissioner. '70 The Los Angeles Lakers outscored New York 22-16 in the highest scoring overtime in NBA Playoff history, defeating the Knicks 121-115 in Game 4 of the Finals. '80 Dallas is granted an expansion franchise, and the Mavericks bring the total number of NBA teams to 23. '88 Michael Jordan of Chicago.

First Cup: Thursday Wizards vs. Cavaliers Mike Wise of The Washington Post.".From the visitors' locker room came a chant, impromptu, rumbling beneath the Quicken Loans Arena stands, growing louder with each refrain. 'TOUGH JUICE! TOUGH JUICE! TOUGH JUICE!' Caron Butler's teammates kept bounding up and down without him, chanting the nickname bestowed upon the Wizards' all-star three years ago by his coach, Eddie Jordan, who had grown tired of coaching soft players who couldn't finish games. When Butler was finishe.

Rangers Top Royals In 11-9 Slugfest , Ugly, ugly, ugggggly. But a win is a win is a win. On a day that found the future of the freshly eliminated Dallas Mavericks hanging in the balance, and the sizzling Dallas Stars unable to cap a second-round playoff series sweep of the San Jose Sharks at the American Airlines Center, it was the Texas Rangers that provided a much-needed sports lift to the suddenly downtrodden Metroplex on Wednesday. And they did it using an old, nearly forgotten secret weapon: the jet stream-aided long ball.

Avery Johnson Fired By Mavericks After Playoffs Loss Tickets, DALLAS ? From the start, Avery Johnson was a perfect fit as coach of the Dallas Mavericks. At the end, it was pretty obvious he wasn't. Johnson lost his job Wednesday, a move the team referred.".relieving him of his duties.".The softer tone made sense considering that in three-plus seasons Johnson guided the Mavericks to the finals for the first time and to a club-record 67 wins the following season. Yet for all the high points, there were some serious lows _ blowing a 2-0 lead in those .