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DEERFIELD, Ill. Lardarius Webb Jersey . -- It seemed almost unthinkable that the Chicago Bulls could be in this spot. Yet here they are, trailing the Philadelphia 76ers 3-1 in the first round and trying to avoid elimination as they return home for Game 5 on Tuesday night. If the Bulls lose, they will be just the fifth No. 1 seed to fall to an eighth seed. It would also give Philadelphia its first series victory since 2003, a scenario few envisioned when the post-season started. "Its been a crazy year from beginning to right now," guard Richard Hamilton said Monday. "We know that." They also realize itll take a wild comeback for them to advance, particularly given their injuries. They lost Derrick Rose for the remainder of the season to a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee late in the series opener, and centre Joakim Noah will likely sit out his second straight game because of a sprained left ankle, leaving them without two of their leaders. As they staggered back home following Sundays 89-82 loss, they sure looked like a beaten team. History says theyre just about finished, too. Only eight teams have come back from a 3-1 deficit to win a best-of-7 series. Hamilton wasnt conceding anything. He was with Detroit when the Pistons turned the trick in 2003, beating in the first round Orlando after falling behind 3-1 and advancing all the way to the conference finals. "When we played Orlando, I remember Tracy (McGrady) made a comment saying that it feels good to be going to the second round, so we kind of took that personally," Hamilton said. "Right now, its personal. Its not just about business. ... Its personal. This is it. You can win and continue playing, or you can go home, so youve got to make it personal." The 76ers werent making any bold statements after Game 4, even though theyre on the verge of a rare feat. The only other eight seeds to knock off a No. 1 are Denver (1994), New York (1999), Golden State (2007) and Memphis last season, when it eliminated San Antonio, but while they put themselves in a good spot, they also got a few words of caution from associate head coach Michael Curry. Like Hamilton, he played on that 2003 Pistons team. "I think Michael Curry was great in the locker room yesterday when he talked about the Detroit-Orlando situation," coach Doug Collins said. "You cant go in with the idea weve got three games to win one. That would be very bad psychology. Weve got to go in with the idea that we want to go to Chicago and we want to finish the series." Andre Iguodala agreed. "Were hungry and we still want it just as bad as if we were down 0-3," he said. "Weve got to come in and play like this could be our last game." For Chicago, it has simply been a brutal series. Rose was looking more like an MVP after missing 27 games during the regular season because of injuries when he went down late in Game 1, and the Bulls havent been the same without their superstar. They got plowed over in the second half while dropping Game 2, and things only got worse in Game 3. As if watching their best player go down werent enough, they lost one of their emotional leaders after Noah stepped on Iguodalas foot while driving the lane. And in Game 4, they again came up short. Jrue Holiday has been giving them fits, averaging 19.8 points in the series. He nailed two 3-pointers down the stretch on Sunday after struggling most of the game. Spencer Hawes has been a big headache, too, shooting over 57 per cent and averaging 12.5 points in the series. The Bulls, meanwhile, have gotten little from Luol Deng. Carlos Boozer has been inconsistent, and Hamilton cant even get on the court down the stretch, with coach Tom Thibodeau going with Kyle Korver instead. He sat out the entire final period in each of the first two games and was in for just 27 seconds in Game 4 after playing 9 minutes, 43 seconds in the fourth quarter of Game 3. "You do (want to play in the fourth), but it is what it is," Hamilton said. "Whatever they need me to do, Im going to do. My job is if Im not on the court in the fourth quarter is to cheer for the next guy because I know the next guy would do the same thing for me." The Bulls came in with big expectations, eyeing a possible rematch with Miami in the Eastern Conference finals after grabbing the No. 1 overall seed for the second straight year. Now, theyre in a spot few envisioned. "Thats where your mental toughness, your physical toughness come into play," Thibodeau said. "Hopefully, youve been building the right habits all season long to get through situations like this. Every team in the playoffs is going through the same thing. Theres going to be ups and downs. You have to be resilient. You have to persevere. You have to get through things. "But we have more than enough to win with," he continued. "We just have to finish it off." Tim Tebow Jersey . Hit a game-ending homer, circle the bases, get mobbed by teammates. Haloti Ngata Jersey ., outlasted Will Strickler in a playoff to become the first Canadian-born winner of the Dakota Dunes Casino Open on Sunday. Rob Gronkowski Jersey . The Lightning came in with the No. 1 overall selection for the third time in team history, and the first time since taking Vincent Lecavalier in 1998. Since winning the leagues draft lottery in April, the Lightning all but stated that they would take Stamkos with the first overall selection. Arian Foster Jersey . Azarenka beat Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia 7-6 (5), 6-4 in a tough opening match. The Australian Open champion and Kuznetsova traded breaks in the first set. Just when it looked like the second set was going to end in another tiebreaker, Azarenka broke again to close out the match. Hines Ward Jersey . -- New England Revolution midfielder Zak Boggs is retiring and will accept a Fulbright Scholarship to study medical sciences at Englands Leicester University beginning this fall. PARIS -- Canadian Daniel Nestor and partner Max Mirnyi of Belarus reached a third straight French Open final Thursday with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Italians Daniele Bracciali and Potito Starace. Nestor and Mirnyi won the trophy last year, and the 39-year-old from Toronto claimed it in 2010 with former partner Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia. Nestor, winner of more doubles titles than any other man in the game, claimed his first trophy at Roland Garros in 2007 with Mark Knowles of the Bahamas. He and Knowles also lost the 2008 final. Nestor and Mirnyi will face off in the Saturday final against the winner from a semi between second-seed brothers Bob and Mike Bryan of the U.S., who beat Pakistani Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi and Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands 6-3, 7-6 (7-5). The Nestor team won in 76 minutes with seven aces and breaks on three of 11 opportunities against the Italians, whom they defeated in an Australian Open third round meeting four months ago. In the junior event, Vancouvers Filip Peliwo continued his bid to become the first Canadian to win a boys title as he moved into the semifinals with a 6-4, 6-1 win over American Noah Rubin. "Were playing well, but we have to keep our best for the final," said Nestor. "Were playing the Bryans who beat us pretty badly in Monte Carlo, wed love to get that one back. "But we have to play to win because thats the only way its going to happen.&" Peliwo will next face Adam Pavlasek, boyfriend of Wimbledon champion and Paris semifinalist Petra Kvitova, after the Czech beat Australian Luke Saville 6-3, 6-3. Dre Kirkpatrick Jersey. . Saville won the Australian open juniors to deny Peliwo that title in January. Nestor and Mirnyi got off quickly against their 14th-seeded opponents, breaking Bracciali in the second game. But the match was coloured by the fact that Nestors team knew Bracciali was carrying an injury from a mixed doubles match the day before. "He was hobbling around on a few shots," said Nestor. "But thats something you dont want to think of. You can start wondering about him and not thinking of your own game." The top seeds went up a second break for 5-1 but Nestor was broken a game later after saving a pair of break points. He took the opening set two games later after 36 minutes. The second set was interrupted for 25 minutes by a passing shower on a day which began with heavy rain and left gusting winds in its wake. With Nestor and Mirnyi leading 3-1, the players were forced off court but returned quickly in sunny, blustery conditions. "We may have felt the conditions a bit more when we came back out," said Nestor. "We focused on our game but we may have let some opportunities slip by. Mirnyi finished the afternoon with a love game, firing an ace on the first of three match points. ' ' ' |
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