Wiz-Cavs III: More Trash Talk

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Wednesday Bullets
Published 4/16/2008 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... Keeping up with the Cavaliers and Wizards trash talk. And for the record, if DeShawn Stevenson is succeeding in getting superhuman LeBron James to worry about him, he's doing something right. With all due respect to a much-improved Stevenson, the best-case for the Wizards is that they both get ejected. ...

NBA Playoff Previews: No. 4 Cavaliers vs. No. 5 Wizards
Published 4/17/2008 at Ball Don't Lie
... of the fans.  This may be like the scene in The Godfather when Mike takes over and tells Tom he can't be consigliere anymore. He is, of course, doing this for Tom's own good and Tom will be back in action as soon as the dirty little deeds are done. But Tom doesn't know this and makes noises eerily similar to sounds emanating from the Cavs bench. Let's recap. Keep LB clean, listen to Eric, stay healthy and it's Cavs all the way. This is the year of LB. Meanwhile, this is the Wizard's strategy: "... we have our own little gimmicks we're ...

Washington Versus Cleveland: The "LeBron Gets Knocks Out In The First Round?!" Series [NBA Playoff Preview]
Published 4/17/2008 by Leitch at Deadspin
... Bad news for the Wizards: They've been talking so much trash about LeBron and the Cavaliers that Charles Barkley recently came out and said: "I think the Washington Wizards have got to be the dumbest team in the history of civilization." You know it's reached the crisis point when Sir Charles makes an unintentional ...

DeShawn Stevenson: Will keeping it real go wrong?
Published 4/18/2008 by Truth About It at Truth About It - Washington Wizards Blog
... and the in-between hybrids. Many have considered it silly of the Wizards to participate in a war of words, believing that there is nothing to possibly gain from such verbiage. ...