News from June 19.

Yao Ming (Hou) underwent surgery on Thursday to remove a bone spur from
his left ankle.


SA 96, Det 95 OT  at Det
Tim Duncan (SA) had 26 points including 4-11 FT and 19 rebounds including
8 offensive.
Manu Ginobili (SA) had 15 points including 5-16 FG, 6 rebounds, and 9
assists.
Tony Parker (SA) had 14 points and 6 turnovers.
Robert Horry (SA) had 21 points including 5-6 3-pointers and the game
winning 3-pointer with 5.8 seconds left and 7 rebounds including 5
offensive.
Ben Wallace (Det) had 13 points, 12 rebounds including 5 offensive, and 4
blocks.
Richard Hamilton (Det) had 15 points and 5 turnovers.
Chauncey Billups (Det) had 34 points including 10-11 FT, 5 rebounds, and 7
assists.
SA leads the series 3-2.


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Admin note: a number of early entry withdrawls were announced while I was
out of town (and without access to my accounts), but I'm not going to
mention those individual announcements as the official list of all those 
who withdrew was released Wednesday - Tuesday was the deadline to
withdraw.  I'm also putting the bracket and schedule listing only with 
Tuesday's news report since I'm sending out the news from June 19-22 in 
one listing.

patricia