The back-and-forth between Maurice Cheeks and the hecklers behind the Philly bench had been going on all evening, with Cheeks staying as engaged as any coach we've seen since M.L. Carr was paying more attention to the fans than to his own Celtics back in the mid-'90s, by the time Richard Hamilton was called for a technical foul midway through the third quarter.
The Sixers were down by 22 points by that point, and Cheeks -- to his credit -- let out a bit of a belly laugh when one heckler told him to let Andre Iguodala shoot the tech.
By that point, Iguodala had gotten off to an 0-for-7 start on what would become a 1-for-9 evening from the field, and Cheeks couldn't help but chuckle at the relevance of what the heckler was saying as he motioned for Willie Green, not Iguodala, to step to the line for the free throw.
The shot was good, but the rest of the game wasn't for the upstarts from Philadelphia who shocked the NBA by coming back from 15 points down to win Game 1
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