THWACK!!
Detroit Pistons defensive wizard Tayshaun Prince, all 215 pounds of him, smashed into an immovable, 7-foot-3, 260-pound object named Zydrunas Ilgauskas. The Cleveland Cavaliers big man planted himself adjacent to Prince with the explicit purpose of preventing him from tracking a precocious 21-year-old LeBron James.
Splat!!
This time the culprit was the springy Anderson Varejao, a 6-foot-10 landmine designed to knock off the lanky Prince and free James, who was navigating his maiden postseason voyage in the 2006 Eastern Conference semifinals.
Prince was a long-armed forward with a 7-foot-2 wingspan who gained notoriety when he chased down and blocked a seemingly uncontested layup by Reggie Miller that would have sealed Game 2 of the 2004 Eastern Conference finals.