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First Cup: Thursday
Published 5/8/2008 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
Magic vs. Pistons Chris McCosky of The Detroit News: "One thing you have to know: If Chauncey Billups' strained right hamstring isn't right by Saturday, Rodney Stuckey will be. 'I'm good,' Stuckey said, when asked about the possibility of starting a critical Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. 'I ain't feeling nothing. I'm ready to play. I am just going to go out and do what I did today.'" A. Sherrod Blakely of Booth Newspapers: "When dealing with an inside force like Dwight Howard, foul trouble is a given for your big men. But when they rack up fouls on one end, and few points on ...

Sam Cassell: NBA Is Protecting LeBron James
Published 5/8/2008 by Brett Edwards at FanHouse
Filed under: Celtics, Cavaliers, NBA Gossip, NBA Playoffs Sam Cassell was called for a flagrant foul on Lebron James halfway through the second quarter of the Celtics' Game 1 win over the Cavs. At the time, when they showed the replay, it looked to me to be a flagrant because once LeBron got past Sam, Cassell grabbed James' shoulder to stop him from getting a shot up. Cassell thinks it was a pretty weak call, and that the NBA is protecting its superstars like never before. Cassell, who broke into the league during the rough-and-tumble mid-1990s, said the NBA is protecting ...