European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 31 Aba scoreboard playoffs quarterfinals Besto seven Eastern conference Detroit Chicago May 5 Detroit Chicago 69 May 7 Detroit Chicago 87 May 10 Detroit Chicago 74 May 13 Chicago Detroit Detroit leads series 31 May is Chicago at Detroit May 17 Detroit at May 21 Chicago at Cleveland new Jersey May 6 Cleveland new Jersey May 8 Cleveland new Jersey 92 May 12 new Jersey Cleve land 85 May 14 Cleveland new Jersey Cleveland leads series 31 May 16 new Jersey at Cleve land May 18 Cleveland at new May 20 new Jersey at Western conference Phoenix san Antonio May 6 san Antonio Phoenix 106 May 8 Phoenix san Antonio is May 12 san Antonio Phoe Nix 101 May 14 Phoenix san Antonio series tied 22 May 16 san Antonio at Phoe Nix May 18 Phoenix at san Antonio May 20 san Antonio at Utah Golden state May 7 Utah Golden state 112 May 9 Utah Golden state of May 11 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bruises and harsh a forearm by Robert Horry to Steve Nash in the closing seconds of the suns 10498 Victory Mon Day night in game 4 escalated the tension to a whole new the who trailed by As Many As 11 had taken the Lead for the first time in the Sec Ond half on consecutive be Hindt Eback feeds from Nash to Amare Stoudemire that made it 10097 with 32 seconds to As Nash started to bring the Ball up the court after Manu Gino Bili missed the spurs fourth straight Horry hit him with a forearm that knocked him into the scorers table and had players from both teams Rushing to the i was trying to skate Between him and the boards and he got me with a Nice hip Nash what can i say it was a pretty Nice Horry was promptly Given a Fla Grant foul and ejected and the suns Raja Bell was Given a tech the suns closed out the Victory to even their Besto seven series with the spurs at game 5 is wednesday in Phoe Nix and will surely carry much of the tension that has characterized the Western conference semifinals so the incident with 18 seconds left in the game overshadowed Phoenix late 121 run to close out the it was a great a Gutsy they were playing extremely Well that second and third Quad Nash we had a hard time stopping they were hitting a lot of threes and big somehow we managed to hang in there and give ourselves a Chance to pick up our pick up our the spurs led 9792 with to play on a rebound Basket by Tim their last Field goal of the suns were very Daggres said spurs coach Gregg they got to the bucket easier than they did earlier in the they just played very very aggressively Down the the suns outscored the spurs 3218 in the fourth it says a lot about this we just battled All said Phoenix Shawn i think we didst get any we just found a Way to get Over that Hill and pull it after Orrys a free throw by each team made it the suns kept Possession and Nash added another free throw with 16 seconds to Marion added two free throws with seconds its possible there could be sus pensions from the league for play ers leaving the Bench after Horry fouled Cavaliers nets 85 at East Lebron James had 30 nine rebounds and seven and Cleveland moved within one Victory of its first Eastern conference finals appearance in 15 years by beating new Jersey in game 4 on Mon Day Larry Hughes added 19 Points and a Drunas Lugauskas had 13 pm Phoenix suns guard Steve Nash right goes after san Antonio spurs Forward Robert Horry 5 in the fourth Quarter in san Antonio on Mon Day Horry was ejected for the flagrant foul against the suns won 10498 and evened the Besto seven series at Points and 11 rebounds for the who can wrap up the Besto seven series at Home wednesday Vince Carter had 25 nine rebounds and nine assists for the but was 6for23 from the Jason Kidd wasted his career playoff High 17re bound performance by shooting 2for13 and scoring five while Richard Jefferson had 15 Points but was Only 3for12 from the new Jersey had Only three Field goals in the fourth Carter lost the Ball out of Bounds with seconds left and the nets trailing by Mikki Moore had a career play offbeat 25 Points for the who will try to become the ninth Aba team to erase a 31 Mavericks Nowitzki chosen As Aba map Matt the Dallas Mavericks Dirk Nowitzki looks at the Maurice Podoloff Tro Phy during a news conference where Nowitzki was announced As nabs map on tuesday in he received 82 of 129 firs place by Jaime Aron the associated press Dallas Dirk Nowitzki has some Consolation for a postseason Flop an map the Dallas Mavericks Forward ended the two year map reign of Good Friend Steve Nash on tues Day after a regular season in which the 7footer led his team to 67 the sixth most in league its still a Little hard for me to be Happy because of the Way this season Nowitzki but this is an award for the regu Lar that How Ive got to look at it and be Nowitzki received including 83 of the 129 firs place results of the map vote were reported last week by the associated press and other Media Nash of the Phoenix suns Fol Lowed with Points and 44 firs place and Kobe Bry ant of the los Angeles lakers got the remaining two firs place san Antonios Tim Duncan was fourth and Cleveland Leb Ron James was Aba commissioner David Stern praised Nowitzki As an elite athlete from Europe who has not Only Learned to play our Hes mastered Mavericks owner Mark cuban became emotional in describing Nowitzki work you dont have to encourage him to go to the cuban Hes the Guy you have to lock votes were turned in before the a Good thing for Nowitzki considering How Little he did to prevent the Mavericks from being bounced in the first round by the eight seeded Golden state one of the biggest upsets in the Aba