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Blazers upset by hard screen

Updated: April 27, 2011, 5:06 PM ET
By Jeff Caplan | ESPNDallas.com

DALLAS -- The bad blood is flowing as the Dallas Mavericks and Portland Trail Blazers head into Game 6 of their Western Conference playoff series.

And it's not Dirk Nowitzki vs. LaMarcus Aldridge. Forget about Brandon Roy vs. the entire Mavericks team. The unpleasantries happened between Brian Cardinal vs. Patty Mills -- two players who've played less than seven minutes combined in this heated first-round series.

Mills and his Blazers teammates took exception to a hard screen ...

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