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"I don't know if you've ever been stabbed before," Jack, the point guard, said, "but that's the closest you get without the knife."

As perhaps you’ve noticed over the course of, oh, 67 games, Jay likes to have Hedo on the court down the stretch of games for his ball-handling and facilitating abilities. Against the pressing Sixers, who were scrambling the game, the coaching staff felt that because Turk’s a better passer and ball-mover and dribbler than Weems…

The theory that won’t go away goes something like this: Someone has gotten in Bosh’s ears; by risking an injury, he’s risking losing millions upon millions. It’s all conjecture, but it’s talk nonetheless that is being bandied about.

"Guys were getting blown by, and if you helped out, someone wasn’t going to help you. We’re getting that confidence back now as a team.”

"We kept the ball moving," Chris Bosh, who had 34 points and 11 rebounds, said. "Granted, we didn't play one of the stronger defences in the league. We'll take everything we can get right now. It still counts."

In a way, Antoine Wright is the anti-Hedo.