INDIANAPOLIS - In advance of Thursday's Game 6 against the Pacers, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra took time to question the way his team's games against Indiana have been officiated this season.

INDIANAPOLIS Miami's Big Two was more than enough to finish off the Indiana Pacers.

LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles Lakers cleaned out their lockers after another early playoff ricochet, but I'm still working.

Zero. 0 for 20. Nada.

NEW YORK LeBron James was the leading vote-getter for the All-NBA team, while Kobe Bryant earned his 10th first-team selection, tied for second on the career list.

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PHILADELPHIA Elton Brand strode through the corridors of TD Garden dressed like a stockbroker, as amiable as a preacher. A security guard congratulated Brand on his exceptional effort in a losing cause.

PHILADELPHIA There is another day for the 76ers to play basketball this season, at least one more, as they handled the Boston Celtics in Game 6 at the Wells Fargo Center in front of a crowd fueled by an appearance by Allen Iverson and strong, gutsy play from the home team.

Casual fans of basketball think of it as a "pretty" sport, according to Dwyane Wade.

LOS ANGELES Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol were in the Los Angeles Lakers' training facility on the same day, possibly for the last time.

MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee Bucks were reduced to scoreboard watching while trying to beat the Toronto Raptors on Monday night at the Bradley Center.

PHILADELPHIA These were the type of moments that made Allen Iverson a legend in Philadelphia - season on the line, odds all against you, desperate situation.

LOS ANGELES Listen to what Chris Paul offered as a key step for the Los Angeles Clippers to improve next season after a successful 2011-12 campaign.

PHILADELPHIA The 76ers have looked for Evan Turner to grab rebounds, start the fast break when the opportunity presents, and to score more. It's something that Sixers coach Doug Collins has implored him to do.

PHILADELPHIA There was no reason this playoff series was going to get any easier, or any prettier, and neither of those happened Wednesday night in the Wells Fargo Center. What happened was even better as far as the 76ers were concerned, however.

PHILADELPHIA With his Boston Celtics holding a chance to clinch their Eastern Conference semifinal series Wednesday night against the 76ers, Doc Rivers was asked if he felt his team was relaxed entering the Wells Fargo Center.

PHILADELPHIA - There is another day for the 76ers to play basketball this season, at least one more, as they handled the Boston Celtics in Game 6 at the Wells Fargo Center in front of a crowd fueled by an appearance by Allen Iverson and strong, gutsy play from the home team.

PHILADELPHIA In the most unpredictable of playoff series, Rajon Rondo was the one consistent playmaker for Boston.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. Pau Gasol met with Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak and Lakers coach Mike Brown for about an hour Wednesday, twice as long as the standard exit interview.

OK, Kobe. So, here's the plan . . .

MIAMI At one point during Tuesday night's Heat-Pacers Game 5, police intercepted a 6-foot-2, 300-pound man who, uh, was not wearing pants.

MIAMI In a physical series that's becoming more about X-rays than Xs and Os, the battered Pacers were informed after practice Wednesday morning in their downtown hotel that Larry Bird, their team president and NBA legend, called them "soft" after the Heat handed them their worst playoff loss in history.

MIAMI The worst of the physical play in this series appears to be in the rearview.

Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade had no interest in even discussing the possibility.

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MIAMI Udonis Haslem insists he meant no harm. The NBA deemed otherwise, and the Miami Heat will be without one of their co-captains when they try to close out the Indiana Pacers on Thursday night.

MIAMI More blood.

Mike Brown's brother, Anthony, was an NFL guard/tackle for five years.

MIAMI The question, posed to Indiana coach Frank Vogel before Game 5 on Tuesday, was simple: What does his team need to do to win? Vogel rattled off several key points:

MIAMI Amid Tuesday's elbows and shoves and fouls and every brand of playoff blood you wanted to see - bad, boiled and even spilled above Dwyane Wade's right eye - a prettier, series-tilting event occurred.