A Must Watch

Last night's game was exhilarating, but a year from now I will probably only vaguely remember Rashard Lewis's near game winning three, LeBron James's free throw attempts at the end of regulation, or Dwight Howard laying it in while Anderson Varejao is on him like a 6 foot 11, 260 lb backpack. What will stick with me is seeing Zydrunas Ilgauskus's face in slow motion as he caught an elbow from Dwight Howard. That was hilarious!!!!!!!!!! I'll post a video or a picture as soon as I can find one.

The Daily Banned Action: Cavs Complaining About Foul Calls

LeBron James is a tremendous player and he would remain an elite player even without the preferential treatment he gets.
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Over the last three games, Dwight Howard, Hedo Turkoglu, and Mickael Pietrus have been routinely called on fouls in which little to no contact occured, or (which hapeens very often) LeBron initiated the contact. For the Cavs to lament that the Magic shot 51 free throws, they can only blame themselves. For one, if they did not want to purposely hack Dwight Howard they could have easily avoided a substantial number of those freebies. For another, they did not have to hip check or hand check Hedo Turkoglu when he is 30 feet from the basket. Lastly, Dwight Howard was fouled far more than was called and every time a foul was called, post-whistle hacking was a regular occurence by the likes of Anderson Varejao.