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Cavs' Brown on Butler: He's a 'tough, tough, guy'
Friday, May 2, 2008
BY Chris Beaven
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER
Everyone knew LeBron James could win a playoff series virtually by himself. He proved as much several times before in the postseason.
But he might have company in this series, in the form of Wizards All-Star forward Caron Butler.
"We really believe he can win this series for them, that's how dangerous he is," Cavs center Zydrunas Ilgauskas said.
Butler's game-winning layup in traffic in Wednesday's Game 5 completed his finest playoff performance. The former UConn star went for 32 points, nine rebounds, five assists and two steals.
"He can do pretty much anything out there on the floor," Cavs guard Daniel Gibson said.
Cavs Head Coach Mike Brown later listed the ways Butler can take over as a scorer by driving, shooting 3-pointers, posting up, or using the pick and roll.
"He's a tough, tough guy," Brown said.
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Cavaliers notebook
Friday, May 2, 2008
BY Chris Beaven
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER
Choices, choices
With the Cavs protecting a late lead Wednesday, guard Daniel Gibson said they had to juggle working the clock with getting a good shot.
"You don't want to take quick shots, you want to run some clock off and get the best shot you can get with running out the most time as possible," he said. "So that's kind of hard because in those situations, you want to get it late into the clock but you do understand with doing that, you got to make sure you're not forcing up an ill-advised shot."
With the Cavs coming up empty on three straight possessions late, it looks as if they might have waited too long before working for a shot. Each time they waited until the shot clock was under 10 seconds.
"You'd probably like to go around maybe 11 or 12, after you've got down the floor, everybody's gotten set," Gibson said. "And then you give it one good effort to the basket."
On the mend
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Swipe at LeBron gets fans 23-cent pizzas Published on Monday, May 05, 2008
Papa John's is sorry that it called LeBron James a crybaby.
The pizza company handed out T-shirts to Washington Wizards fans on Friday that carried the Papa John's logo, the word ''Crybaby'' and the number 23.
James wears No. 23 and the shirts stemmed from James complaining about hard fouls during the series. Wizards center Brendan Haywood called him a crybaby.
Faced with a backlash from fervent Cavs fans who started talking about a boycott for dissing their star, Papa John's offered up an apology Sunday.
''The decision to do this was made by a local Washington, D.C., Papa John's operator without approval of Papa John's corporate,'' the company said in a statement. ''Nonetheless, we believe this was in poor taste and sincerely apologize to Cavalier fans and LeBron James.''
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Veteran LeBron expects more His goals for himself and his team are higher
By Brian Windhorst
Beacon Journal sportswriter
Published on Sunday, May 04, 2008
WASHINGTON: When the Cavaliers won their first playoff series in 13 years in the final seconds of Game 6 against the Wizards in 2006, there was a pileup of players at center court.
Ostensibly it was on top of Damon Jones, who had made the winning shot, but it was LeBron James who started everything by tackling him in celebration and inviting others to follow. Then in his third season, James had never experienced anything like winning a playoff round and he celebrated the newness of it.
Just two years later, after another Game 6 and series win over the Wizards on Friday night, James calmly walked to the center of the court, shook hands with Caron Butler, did a television interview, and stopped to slap hands with his friends and agent courtside. As he left the floor, a Wizards fans hurled a curled up T-shirt at him, he looked and smiled ? as if that was going to hurt him ? tossed his towel to a Cavs fan and left the court.
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Potent Celtics will test Cavaliers East's top seed brings physical defense, plenty of star power to series
By Brian Windhorst
Beacon Journal sportswriter
Published on Monday, May 05, 2008
INDEPENDENCE: When LeBron James first walked into the Boston Celtics' arena, then called the FleetCenter, five years ago, he had to listen to a bunch of stories about the famous Celtic mystique and the genius of legendary coach Red Auerbach.
The teller was Paul Silas, James' first head coach, who loved to point to the rafters and the two banners he helped win as a member of the Celtics in the 1970s.
James has a sense and a respect for the history of the game, but that's not what he's focused on as the Cavaliers gear up for their Eastern Conference semifinal series with the Celtics, who finally dispatched the Atlanta Hawks 99-65 Sunday to advance to meet the Cavs. The series begins Tuesday in Boston at 8 p.m.
They have renamed the arena the ''Garden'' again but t
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