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New beasts in the East

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com

Monday, January 19, 2004

Ben Wallace's Pistons and Jermaine O'Neal's Pacers are battling for East supremacy. This is not the way Byron Scott drew it up. On Dec. 26, New Jersey went to Detroit and defeated the Pistons. The next night, New Jersey went to Indiana and left the Pacers with a loss of their own ... and their first Rick Carlisle-Ron Artest blowup. Since then? The Pacers and Pistons have combined to lose, uh, once. Which sets up a nice little Central Division showdown Tuesday at Conseco Fieldhouse. You do ...

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