Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 at 3:00 pm  |  32 responses

Worthy of Your Attention

by Marcel Mutoni

Two Game 5′s on tap for tonight…

Wizards @ Cavs: Lakers. Magic. Hornets. Spurs. Those are the teams that have advanced so far in the Playoffs. Tonight, Cleveland has an opportunity to join them. LeBron James absolutely expects to close out the noisy series in Cleveland.

“They don’t have any choice but to be desperate,” he said. “They’re down, 3-1. We’re at home, a place where we play particularly well.

Our fans are great,” James said. “They love the postseason. We need to put (the Wizards) away.”

Please put them away. For everyone’s sake.

Hawks @ Celtics: The good thing for both teams – but even more so, for the C’s – is that neither faced punishement from the League following the little shoving match in Game Four. The conspiracy theorists, of course, think the NBA did Boston a huge favor.

The Hawks must deal with the following: Boston’s crowd, the fact that the Celtics haven’t lost three consecutive games all season long, and uh, the fact that they’re the Atlanta Freaking Hawks!

An Atlanta win tonight and … well, I can’t even wrap my head around the idea, truth be told. Should be a great game.

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  • Jeronimo Posted: Apr.30 at 3:09 pm
    An Atlanta win tonight and Lang will be buying drinks to all New York and the whole state of Georgia :-)

  • Co Co Posted: Apr.30 at 3:16 pm
    Hawks will win tonight.

  • The Second Coming Posted: Apr.30 at 3:18 pm
    Hawks win this series and I will shave an ATL in my head. Then i will promptly shave the rest or scalp myself.

  • riggs Posted: Apr.30 at 3:19 pm
    if the hawks win tonight i will get down on one knee and finally propose to Co Co (not that thats a bad thing)

  • Co Co Posted: Apr.30 at 3:25 pm
    Haha! I can’t wait to see pics of the ATL in your head, and I can’t wait for my marriage proposal!

  • Holly MacKenzie Posted: Apr.30 at 3:36 pm
    CoCo, we’ve gotta remind Mr. Bengtson he owes us some stars!!!

  • Co Co Posted: Apr.30 at 3:43 pm
    Get him Holly!!! He’s ducking my emails! Hahah!

  • The Second Coming Posted: Apr.30 at 3:55 pm
    dang it co co, now i’m gonna have to do it. C’mon Celts!! Someone get KG some red bulls!

  • TADOne Posted: Apr.30 at 4:07 pm
    I guess i’m a conspiracy theorist.

  • B. Long Posted: Apr.30 at 4:09 pm
    J-Smoove’s gonna get a triple double tonite with points, rebounds, and blocks.

  • Rucious Posted: Apr.30 at 4:11 pm
    WHO DROPPED THE BALL ON THE HIGH SCHOOL RANKINGS PAGE??? Yall starting to get a little more and more ESPN like. First it was the 65 pages of cheap ass advertisements in the magazine, and now you have a whole section devoted to high school and you got the same dry ass stories up from 5 months ago, the rankings just stopped mid-season, and you still have the same 3 old school rankings up from when the page first opened. Damn, wack.

  • Chou Posted: Apr.30 at 4:17 pm
    Remember Scoop’s Game Point piece on conspiracy theorists a few years back? I’m curious with what he’s gotta say.

  • The Promise Posted: Apr.30 at 4:37 pm
    If Boston chokes tonight, they are done.

  • drew Posted: Apr.30 at 4:39 pm
    i hope the cavs put the wiz out of their misery. even though i dont think even that will get them to shut their mouths

  • James_White Posted: Apr.30 at 5:08 pm
    Nothing about the Viper’s apology?

  • overtime Posted: Apr.30 at 6:00 pm
    I can’t believe people aren’t making more of a big deal of this! Last year, Amare Stoudamire and Boris Diaw were suspended for the critical Game of the second round series between Phoenix and San Antonio because they came off of the bench during a scuffle. Boston did this exact same thing in game four, yet they recieve no punishment whatsoever? PLUS KG blatently pushed a referree! where is Stu Jackson?? oh thats right….he was in the crowd!

  • WhaHuh Posted: Apr.30 at 6:27 pm
    Songalia just backhanded LeBron. Rediculous

  • TADOne Posted: Apr.30 at 6:28 pm
    This Cavs/Wiz extra curicular stuff is just tiring. Now Songalia has tried to push off LeBron after a foul on Songalia, and LeBron acted like he got hit. The commentators are calling it a punch when it clearly was not. Please just end this series already.

  • tenorca Posted: Apr.30 at 8:06 pm
    The Wiz are depressing me. More than Denver, even. If you can make me root for Ohio, you done f_cked up proper.

  • John E. Sanford Posted: Apr.30 at 8:45 pm
    Well I’ll be damned, Washington won…

  • Bubba Chuck Posted: Apr.30 at 8:47 pm
    WASHINGTON WIZARDS!

  • Winslowalrob Posted: Apr.30 at 8:50 pm
    WASHINGTON WIZARDS!!!!! LEBRON TRIES TO BITCH HIS WAY OUT BUT TO NO AVAIL! ALL CAPS!

  • Dacre Posted: Apr.30 at 8:58 pm
    I DON’T GET IT….. Sure I’m living in the past…Amare and Boris are out a game, for standing up….STANDING UP…from this —\ to this
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    and KG touches an official…and NOTHING??? nothing….? as in..it didn’t happen..nothing…
    yep.
    I’m switching sports.

  • albie1kenobi Posted: Apr.30 at 9:00 pm
    the traveling circus continues to everyone’s ire.

  • John E. Sanford Posted: Apr.30 at 9:45 pm
    Yeah David Stern’s actions this week further confirm that he is senile. When he is at a game, he just sits in the stands grinning like a jackass. How Jason Kidd didn’t get suspended baffles me as well.

  • Bubba Chuck Posted: Apr.30 at 11:07 pm
    @ Winslowalrob: R u mocking me?

  • The Biz Posted: Apr.30 at 11:51 pm
    Bubba i think he is

  • Winslowalrob Posted: May.1 at 1:02 am
    naw, i am a diehard wiz fan. I am annoyed you got in first because I was on cloud 9 with the huge win.

  • Sesa Posted: May.1 at 5:50 am
    So basically that the Colangelos were not in good graces of David Stern. That’s the most logical explanation

  • Ty Kish Posted: May.1 at 4:45 pm
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSTgWKtcSrg Highlights from game five

  • Bubba Chuck Posted: May.1 at 5:28 pm
    Im a wiz fan 2 now that tha nugs r out

  • phillies are the number one Posted: Oct.30 at 6:10 pm
    DENVER NUGGETS ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCKS ALL CAPS!!!!!!!!!!!!

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