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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2008
NBA
Magic crests first-round hump
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Orlando Magic forward Rashard Lewis celebrates as Toronto Raptors forward Chris Bosh walks off the court as time runs out on the clock in Game 5 in an NBA Eastern Conference playoff basketball series Monday in Orlando, Fla. Orlando won 102-92 to advance to the next playoff round.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Surprise,
NBA. The first team to advance
in the Eastern Conference playoffs
wasn't the heavily favored Boston
Celtics or the battle-tested Detroit
Pistons.
It was the Orlando Magic, who beat the Toronto Raptors 102-92 on Monday to close the first-round series in five games. And it was built on the back of a 22-year-old center whose improvement seems to show no bounds.
Dwight Howard had 21 points and 21 rebounds, his third 20-20 game in five postseason games, and the Magic advanced to the second round for the first time in 12 years.
Orlando hadn't won a playoff series since Shaquille O'Neal and Penny Hardaway led the team to the Eastern Conference finals in 1996. The Magic played 28 postseason games in the intervening years, winning only eight.
Howard helped limit Raptors star Chris Bosh to nine rebounds and 16 points on 7-of-19 shooting, one game after the Raptors forward set playoff career highs of 39 points and 15 rebounds.
"To finally get over the hump and get out of the first round, it means a lot for us." Howard said. "But we're not satisfied. Our goal is to win a championship, so we're going to keep playing and try to play the same way to get that goal."
"He's a phenom; he's the best center in the league," Bosh said of Howard, his friend from USA Basketball. "He's probably the strongest guy in the league, and he knows how to use his body. It doesn't surprise me at all. I've seen him play this whole series, I've seen him play this season."
In other NBA playoff games. Atlanta beat Boston 97-92 and Los Angeles defeated Denver 107-101.
T. J. Ford and Carlos Delfino both scored 14 points for the Raptors, while Jason Kapono had 13 and Jose Calderon 12.
"They beat us on the boards.
"They've got a guy in the middle
who cleans up a lot of their misses," Toronto coach Sam Mitchell said. "It's hard to ask much more of our big guys when they're battling this guy the way they did with his size and strength, quickness and athleticism. Congratulations Orlando; they played great."
The Magic will face the winner of the Detroit-Philadelphia series, which is tied 2-2, in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
Keyon Dooling's free throw after a technical on Bosh put the Magic ahead 73-66 with just under a minute left in the third quarter, and Orlando kept the lead until midway through the fourth. Delfino hit a jumper and Bosh made two free throws in four trips to the line, plus a hook shot over Howard, to draw the Raptors within 84-82.
The Magic, who had the fourth-
best 3-point percentage in the NBA this season, struggled again from long range (9-of-32), but made them when it counted. Keith Bogans and Jameer Nelson each hit one and Howard added a layup as the Magic answered with an 8-0 run over 3:13 to open a 92-82 lead, then its largest of the game.
It was enough room to let them coast.
"We didn't even have our best night, and to be able to win it in five games, I'm really proud of them," Magic coach Stan Van Gundy said.
Nelson scored 19 points and Rashard Lewis had 18 points and 13 rebounds for Orlando. Hedo Turkoglu just missed a triple-double with 12 points, eight rebounds and nine assists, while Maurice Evans scored 12 points.
KENTUCKY DERBY
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Race horse trainer Dirk Rutton, right, rubs Brown, as walker Alberto Montejo, center, looks on at Palm Meadows in Boynton Beach, Florida. early Thursday. Big Brown is considered a favorite to win the Kentucky Derby.
Dutrow says Big Brown can't lose
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — About 10 years ago, trainer Rick Dutrow Jr.'s address was Barn 1, Tack Room D, Aqueduct Racetrack, New York.
From there to here, Dutrow has emerged as one of the nation's top trainers. He also happens to have the expected favorite for Saturday's Kentucky Derby in unbeaten Big Brown.
"I loved it," he said, a hardy laugh following. "I was right there in the barn with my horses. I had my microwave set up. I was good. Really. If I lost everything and had to do it again, I'm there."
Park Avenue, it wasn't.
"I feel very confident that if Big Brown breaks with the field, he going to run a big race," he said. "I just haven't seen any other horse with my eyes that can beat him."
And Dutrot doesn't think his 3-year-old bay colt can lose.
The always engaging Dutrow center stage for more than 30 minutes Tuesday morning at the media center on the backside
of Churchill Downs. While it was chilly outside, Dutrow was inside warming a crowd of about 75 people with tales of his struggles, suspensions and social life.
He said the hardest part of his job is waking up at 4:30 every morning, "because I like to hang out with my people, and I can't be doing that all the time."
"Yeah," he said. "If I wanted to take out some girl, she'd say, 'Where am I going to meet you?' I'd say, 'Meet me at the barn.'
Of his numerous suspensions, many for medication violations, Dutrow said: "Half of them I deserved, half of 'em I didn't."
Asked if he ever brought women back to his digs at Aqueduct, his eyes brightened, he smiled and then answered.
"Actually," he continued, "I never should leave the barn because when I leave the barn that's when trouble starts. When I'm in the barn, I'm just there with my horses and it's good."
It's been all good for Dutrow lately.
horseman Dick Dutrow came to New York and started with no horses and living in a tack room, usually used as a backstretch storage area. Since then he's moved way up in class, and has a public stable of more than 100 horses. In 2005, he won two Breeders' Cup races, the classic with Horse of the Year Saint Liam and the BC Sprint with Silver Train. Last year, Kip Deville won the BC Mile.
The son of the late Maryland
This year has been sensational. Big Brown was sent to his barn after IEAH Stable bought a 75 percent share of the bay colt for a reported $3 million. On the same day Big Brown won the Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, Fla., on March 29, Dutrow won two rich races in Dubai with Benny the Bull and Diamond Stripes.
When IEAH was looking to bring in a trainer when they began upgrading their stable a few years ago, they turned to Dutrow.
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"We knew there were some issues, we checked it out and decided to go with him," IEAH co-president Michael Iavarone said.
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