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StatMuse: Players with 25+ threes and over 30 blocks in a playoffs: — Draymond Green — Rasheed Wallace — Al Horford — Myles Turner (this year) — Chet Holmgren (this year) Chet is the youngest player in NBA history to do it. pic.x.com/SqiC1nHYb5

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Jorge Sierra: Al Horford tied Julius Erving in playoff blocks for No. 14 all-time. He also moved ahead of Kevin Garnett in rebounds for No. 16 and tied Rasheed Wallace in threes at No. 33.

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Jorge Sierra: Kawhi Leonard passed Klay Thompson and James Worthy in playoff scoring tonight. He's No. 27 all-time now. He also moved ahead of Rasheed Wallace and Nate Thurmond in rebounds for No. 41 in NBA history.

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Jorge Sierra: Jaylen Brown (age 28) has passed Paul George and Rasheed Wallace in playoff scoring and is now No. 47 in NBA history. Also: Draymond Green moved ahead of Hakeem Olajuwon in steals for No. 20 all-time.

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Dumars served as the chief strategy officer of the Sacramento Kings from 2019-22 and has been the NBA league office's executive vice president of basketball operations since 2022. Dumars ran the Pistons from 2000-14, winning the executive of the year award in 2003 and building the 2004 championship team. He made a series of moves that propelled the Pistons to seven straight seasons of 50 wins or more from 2001-02 to 2007-08 -- signing Chauncey Billups, trading for Rasheed Wallace, Ben Wallace and Rip Hamilton, and drafting Tayshaun Prince.

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Rasheed Wallace: I'm so pissed with the Sixers this year and then here's the thing i like I said I can't even put it on the organization or the coaches, it's two dudes, it's two dudes that set it all for us. I don't know what the hell is going on! Why? Why? And I love Tyrese Maxey, I love the way Maxey called him out. How you going to be the captain, the star player of the team but then you don't come to meetings, you show up late to practice… and we know you not practicing, so damn you got to be there for damn rehab! Because now you messing this stuff up, because the trainer's dealing with you during practice when he should be keeping his eye on the other guys out there on the floor. You got to get to practice early dog or you won't have to stay after. (…) In my opinion I think the fans, we sick of it, man. We about to run this dude out of Philly, dog. I could see it, I could see it.

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Jorge Sierra: Chris Paul tied Kobe Bryant in three-pointers last night for No. 28 all-time. Also: Devin Booker moved ahead of Derek Harper, Rasheed Wallace, Amare Stoudemire and Kiki Vandeweghe in scoring for No. 124 in NBA history.

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Jorge Sierra: Giannis Antetokounmpo moved past Tony Parker and Terry Cummings to become No. 57 all-time in scoring. Klay Thompson moved ahead of Derek Harper, Rasheed Wallace and Amare Stoudemire for No. 123. Also: Devin Booker (28) is now ahead of Shawn Kemp, Jimmy Butler and Sam Perkins.

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I always wondered what was your favourite “IT” moment from the 2004 title run? A moment that made you feel that it is all coming together and we might do something special. Joe Dumars: "The day of the trade for Rasheed Wallace. I felt we had a great shot to win." - Joe

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Still, that 2003-04 Pistons team was one of the most motivational stories to ever grace the NBA hardwood, and recently, a key member of that team, forward Tayshaun Prince, revealed why he himself may have been a reason the team opted not to select Anthony, via The Knuckleheads Podcast. “I think how management looked at it was like they found their future small forward in me, let’s take a chance on Darko because remember (Mehmet) Okur, who we had, who was super talented, there was a chance we were going to lose him in free agency, which we did,” said Prince. “Then obviously (Rasheed Wallace), so it was like however they want to call it, we’ll take a chance on Darko.”

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Rasheed Wallace: What makes you go after the guys you go after. Chris Luchey: It's always size for your position, an NBA skill set or freak athlete. Those are the guys that I was taught when I was working as a scout where guys would go to a different level. Dirk Nowitzki as a forward, yourself Sheed, being able to stretch the floor even in the early days. Magic Johnson has a huge point guard size for your position. Then you got all your incredible athletes, all your freaky athletes have all been successful for the most part. That's what you're looking for me. Personally I'm always looking for character because the NBA man is crazy especially from an agent standpoint. It's a very, very, very tough business because as you guys know as players you can change agents at any time.

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NBA Central: Chauncey Billups says the Pistons would have run LeBron out of Cleveland had Detroit drafted Carmelo Anthony. “We win at least 3 chips.” 👀 (🎥 @7PMinBrooklyn ) pic.twitter.com/alU08AUOsG

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Rasheed Wallace: What the Sixers should have done is sit his ass down, go and get that rest. ‘This is the Olympics…’ No, sit down dog. Like you just got all this bread bro. No disrespect to the Olympics and Olympic Games, all that, but hey man, to me in this world, hey this NBA title is more important than you know getting that gold medal. Yo, go ahead and rest up. If I were the Sixers, oh man I definitely would have protested that with him. You are our main catalyst. I could see it if you were our backup center, or if you were a backup guard, or even a starting guard where we got let's say bringing a Tyrese Maxey off the bench or something like that. Oh yeah go ahead, but we ain't got nobody to back you up, bro. You are the team, you are it. When people think of the Philadelphia 76ers we think of Joel Embiid. Well, we think of Allen Iverson first, but then Joel Embiid. Man no, sit down. He doesn't look healthy.

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Rasheed Wallace: .@Draymond Green …first and foremost this isn’t a beef, Draymond is my lil bro who I am proud of so no matter what we say it will never be personal so don’t try to blow this up cause we both know how cats do!!! Dray you already know how we got down on that squad!! Don’t matter the rules yours or ours …. y’all as a team were too fuckin little… you can ask more than half ya teammates (who we played against) on that roster… and we can keep it with that year b/c no way yall could fuck with any of us in our prime… at any point I can come on ya show or you can come visit mines and we can go thru the roster man for man coach for coach ….

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