Dwight Howard and Stan Van Gundy have mapped out a playoff plan. Now it’s time for the Orlando Magic’s star player and coach to put it to work. A 59-win regular season has ballooned expectations and put pressure on the Magic’s leading men to make a deep playoff push. That road begins Sunday against a [...]
Neither the Philadelphia 76ers nor the Charlotte Bobcats played particularly well in their last game. The difference is Philadelphia has clinched a playoff spot while Charlotte may have fallen too far back to still make a run at one. The 76ers look to bounce back from a dismal offensive performance on Tuesday when they visit [...]
A brutal stretch of schedule wasn’t doing much for the Atlanta Hawks before they delivered a lockdown defensive effort to defeat one of the top teams in the NBA. The Hawks hope to replicate that performance against another team battling for playoff position in the Eastern Conference on Tuesday night, when they look to strengthen [...]
Allen Iverson has heard a lot of negative comments during his tempestuous career. He wasn’t used to hearing them about his toughness, though. Iverson returned Sunday after missing 16 games with a back injury and scored eight points in 21 minutes of the Detroit Pistons’ 101-97 win over the Philadelphia 76ers. After the game, he [...]
With seven wins in nine games, Philadelphia was riding a wave of confidence. The 76ers, though, learned how easy it is to crash. With an opportunity to pull within one-half game of fifth place in the Eastern Conference, Philadelphia looks to get back on track Sunday night at the Palace of Auburn Hills. Facing a [...]
Desperate to remain in playoff contention, Boris Diaw and the Charlotte Bobcats came up big against the Philadelphia 76ers. Diaw scored 24 points and Ray Felton added 20 points for the Bobcats, who won 100-95 on Friday and moved within 2½ games of idle Detroit for the eighth playoff seed in the Eastern Conference. “We [...]
Dwyane Wade never had a chance to play at the Spectrum, which will be gone by year’s end. Unfortunately for the Miami Heat and their new all-time leading scorer, there are no plans to get rid of the Wachovia Center. Coming off perhaps his best game of what has been an outstanding season, Wade looks [...]
The 76ers took Dr. J up on his challenge to beat the Bulls one last time at the Spectrum. Thaddeus Young scored a career-high 31 points and Andre Iguodala had 25 to spark the Philadelphia 76ers to a 104-101 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Friday night in the final NBA game at the 42-year-old [...]
Samuel Dalembert heeded the advice of Hall of Fame center Moses Malone earlier this week when the former Philadelphia center told him to get mean. Thaddeus Young scored a career-high 29 points, Dalembert snapped out of his recent slump, and the Philadelphia 76ers handed the Toronto Raptors their sixth straight loss with a 115-106 victory [...]
The struggling Philadelphia 76ers are holding down the seventh spot in the Eastern Conference, but with more than a month to play in the regular season and four teams lurking behind them, their grip on a playoff slot is tenuous at best. Facing the woeful Toronto Raptors should help Philadelphia get back in the win [...]
