chris cotter keeps telling me lou williams is the best sixth man in the nba. the voters said it was hard. not likely to doubt carter after what i saw last night. under two minutes to go, elton brand double-double for him. the sixers and sell tigs will play their seventh game seven in the playoffs against one another after the phillies win. the nba playoffs continue on espn tonight, other half of the bracket, heat/pacers, miami can advance to their second straight eastern conference final with a win in indy. you can see it at 8:00 p.m. on espn. your home for the nba playoffs. >>> a pawnshop worker with some great pipes is spoiler alert the new "american idol." philly beat jessica sanchez in record viewer voting. he becomes the fifth male "idol" winner in a row. >> phillips could manage to keep it together on the last song. instead he dissolved in tears as he sang "home." might be his first single. all he's been through, he's entitled to tears. jessica is so cute and talented too. >>> the president and the porn stars, the new photo making news this morning. >>>

then lou williams grabs the lob, sixers outscored the bulls 36-14 in the third period and blow them out sixers beat the bulls, that series tied 1-1. celtics on the road, trying to even their series with the hawks without one of their players, r r rondo, also ray allen. paul pierce came up big. pierce scoops it up, back for the dunk. less than a minute later, pierce hits a big three, puts the celtics up seven. he finished with 36 and 14 rebounds. just over a minute left, pierce hits the game-clinching foul slot, followed by a tebow pose at center court? wow! pierce leads the celtics with an 87-80 victory without rondo. if the knicks plan on avoiding a sweep by the handz of the heat, they'll have to do it without amar'e stoudemire. stoudemire as we told you yesterday will miss tonight's game three of the heat because of that self-inflicted hand injury after he smashed a fire extinguisher. he had surgery to repair a muscle in his left hand. he's listed doubtful for sunday's game four. most think he's out fort playoffs. >>> baseball, nationals fans finally got their chance to see 19-year-ol

lou williams stopped and popped and drained the three at the buzzer. the sixers up five. second belonged to the celts. that's when kevin garnett took over, scored 13 of his 27 in the quarter. he turns 36 on saturday but was playing like he was 26. celts were up 11 at the break and kept it going in second half. rajon rondo to paul pierce. boston led by as many as 27 and won it 107-91. >>> pacers president larry bird won the executive of the year award. he's the only person in league history to win a regular season mvp, a finals mvp, coach of the year and executive of the year. pretty impressive resume. >>> hockey. the best way to score on a hot goalie is to get traffic in front of the net. that's exactly what the devils did. after they were shut out in game one, they scored two goals by deflecting the puck past henrik lundqvist. carter tied it in the second and then in the third, david clarkson tipped the puck out of midair and that's your game-winner. tip the hat to the devils. they earned the split in new york with a 3-2 win. game three is saturday on nbc. >>> finally, e

covers central, southern, prince william county and manassas till 10:00 a.m. talkier, lou -- fauquier, loudoun, they're not in it. things came out of the shenandoah valley and slowly moved to the east. we've seen the activity diminish except for down south where new storms over toward the northern neck. here's a look at live doppler 9000hd. light to moderate rains across central montgomery county from potomac across the river now into great falls over toward mclean, route 7 by tysons seeing some of that rain this morning coming in toward arlington and northwest seeing a little bit of it. some of the lighter showers have also crossed into southern maryland down into western, southwestern prince george's county barely into charles county now as it's weakening coming out of fairfax and lower prince william and as you look down toward the northern neck, reedville, some showers. maybe some thunder might be coming out of this as it tracks to the east, northeast and may clip southern st. mary's county. our temperatures are on the muggy side, in the 60s, upper 60s in town. lower 6