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Things start to heat up at 2007-2008 NBA Playoffs. You can feel the tension and teams want to take it to another level. An act? Could be, but will do just fine for rabid NBA betting fans.

The Washington Wizards thought they would be heading home after Wednesday’s game. Well, they are! But they won’t be sitting and watching the games on TV (at least not yet). In what is rumored to be a bad play almost made on purpose, the Cavaliers let the Wizards win this one to have at least one more game.

Sure, one missed layup doesn’t mean you fixed the game. But you start to feel that way when you read Caron Butler’s declarations to press. He says he’d been messing with LeBron James during the entire game and, just a few moments before the match ended, he told King James to miss the shot and make things “more interesting” with another game.

Could that be possible? Cavs fans would feel offended to know they could be celebrating already their pass to the next phase, when just 4 teams will fight to be in the Eastern Conference Finals. Instead of that, Caron Butler made the layup with almost 4 seconds left and his last basket gave the Wizards some hope with a victory 88-87. It is often said that some teams lose on purpose in many sports to play more games and make more money. Could they be so obvious?

My choice is that King James didn’t actually do it on purpose (Caron is just taking the credit of it with too much arrogance), but he definitely felt pressured and influenced in some way by Butler’s comments. Now the results are 3-2, and even though they will be playing at Washington, I really doubt LeBron will let another one slip like that. Will this extra game really be a surprise? We’ll know very soon.

Source: Chicago Tribune

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