The Daily Banned Action: Chauncey Billups Trying to Make the "Home Run" Play

Chauncey is a great player (still a top-5 point guard) and, make not mistake about it, he made the immense talent of the Denver Nuggets finally come to fruition. But too often he buys into his nickname of "Mr. Big Shot" and he tries to go for the "home run" play instead of making the smarter play on the fast break. A pull up three pointer has much less of a chance of going in than a dunk or a layup for a teammate, and the greater risk of a pull up 3 will only give you the extra benefit of one point (or no points if it's an and-1). Chauncey messed up three fast breaks in Game 6 because he ran them poorly. While the home run play may energize the crowd slightly more than the easy lay in, a missed fast break is very demoralizing for the fans.

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.

The Daily Banned Action: Lakers Complaining About Injury

When the opposing team has a starting lineup that includes a 6-6 guy at center, then the Lakers have absolutely no right to nag about Lamar Odom's back spasms.

The Rockets have lost two all-star caliber players (Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady) and one hall-of-fame candidate (Dikembe Mutombo) to season-ending ending injuries. Yet we hear the Lakers talking about LO (their third best player) having to go through treatment to lessen his back pain.