Magic star Rashard Lewis tested positive for a banned performance-enhancing drug sometime before the NBA Finals last season. A follow-up test was given during the Finals, where Orlando fell 4-1 to the Lakers. But based on when that first test happens, Lewis's former teammate Ray Allen wonders if it might have been the Celtics in the Finals.Allen told the Boston Globe this weekend that if Lewis has tested positive during the Magic-Celtics Eastern Conference semifinals series, he should have been suspended then. Allen follows that up by suggesting that without Lewis Orlando would have fallen to Boston (a fair retrodiction). The Magic beat the Celtics and Cavaliers on their way to the Finals.
The NBA never announced the timing of that first test, and news of Lewis's positive test didn't break until the start of August -- some nine weeks after the start of the Finals.
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Woulda, shoulda, coulda...!?!?
What's this all about? The 2009 playoffs/finals are long gone and no one can turn back the time to watch the playoffs without Lewis in the Magic-lineup.
That's beating a dead horse right there...
if "if's" were fifths, we'd all be drunk. That being said it's shady that he tested positive and the league still let him play.
sour grapes anyone? they're a boston specialty!
must be somebody salty about the magic spanking the celtics at home that wrote that lol.why are people still sleeping on this magic team.who has a better bench then orlando?
Ray Allen "Wahhhhhhh, we thought we should have won it all....wahhhhhh"
Everybody knows the NBA's bread makers wanted to see a Kobe/LeBron Finals. If there was anything that could hamper the already hampered Magic, it would be that. So, really, it must not've been that big a deal (kinda like his past suspension anyhow).
C'mon, Ray-Ray, that was last year. Use the motivation of losing to propel your performance higher, not to cast blame and suspicion for no reason.
don't worry, the NBA refs will never let Lewis get the the calls in the playoffs. Nobody likes a cheater. It won't matter the rest of the league has figured Lewis out, play him tight and bleed him off to the lower post players because his passing is suspect and he cannot finish.