Roy Hibbert's week has been ... well, not bad, exactly. Not great either. Strange? Eventful? He's already in the news for not being put in the game to guard LeBron James in the final seconds of Game 1, a decision which SportNation found to be pretty questionable. On Thursday night, Hibber took to his Twitter account to call out the Heat's Shane Battier for his alleged dirty play earlier in the game:

U can knee or kick me every time u drive 2the rim. Ill be there 2protect the rim. That wasn't inadvertent. Battier knew what he was doing

— Roy Hibbert (@Hoya2aPacer) May 23, 2013

Battier himself has not responded, although his own Twitter account has been dark since early April. Maybe if Hibbert had used "@ShaneBattier" in his message, we'd have a real Twitter fight on our hands; for now, it's disappointingly one-sided.

• The Dynamic Uno: "shane battier is not a dirty player, but he had an uncharacteristic game."
• OhioFan82: "If you watched the game, you saw MULTIPLE replays where Battier was engaged in dirty play. MULTIPLE! Don't oust Hibbert for saying what everyone saw."
• SmallFry9211: "Elevating your knee on a lay up is proper form, ask any coach in the country. Don't know if he's dirty or not but that in and of itself is not a dirty play."
• vpolite: "Usually stuff like that is self-regulating, but with all the cameras, you have to hope the refs do their job. Hibbert needs to concentrate on giving his team the best chance to win by doing his job while he's on the floor. Any time he's spending on Twitter is time wasted."
• as-tw: "So what if Battier plays dirty? All it proves to me is the dude wants to win, if the Pacers wanted to win as badly they'd have put Battier on his back to protect their teammates. "
• iOdime: "He should have gotten a flagrant for the knee. Everyone knows had that been a Pacer kneeing Lebron like that, it would easily be a flagrant."

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The Phillies seemed to be letting their age finally catch up with them, but a 7-3 record in their last 10 games might be giving fans pause. Cliff Lee capped off their excellent run Wednesday with a three-hit shutout, and though it was agains the hapless Marlins, SweetSpot's David Schoenfield is seeing reasons for Philadelphia to be buyers at the trade deadline. They're just below .500, but even a single cold streak from one of the teams ahead of them could make them contenders for a wild-card spot -- or, wonder of wonders, the top spot in the fragile National League East.

• Jodi Saloga: "The Phillies are *still* the oldest team in baseball, and it doesn't do jack-squat to change the manager to make them any younger. Our biggest mistake was signing all these people to such monster contracts."
• Jim Schwandt: "The Phils will be buyers, if only because this is the last stand for this group of players. It's circle the wagons time, & they'll hope for a replay of 30 years ago, when the club rode Schmidt, Carlton, Rose, Morgan, Perez, etc., to one last World Series appearance."
• Thomas McCaslin V: "The Phils are still in the hunt. Partly because the Nats stink, the Braves tend to falter down the stretch, the Mets and Marlins are...... just plain terrible."
• DerrickMorris: "Cole Hammels is better than this, and Lee is a stud. So you have 2 front line guys that can carry you. I think the biggest thing is getting rid of Delmon and giving his AB's, and defensive position to ANYONE else, would be a huge help. Gotta wonder how long Utley can stay healthy (hurt now, right?), and if Ryan can regain SOME type of 2010-2011 form. It's a longshot, but with that extra wild card, I think Phillies could pull it off."
• Scott North: "So, the Phillies should be buyers because they've barely maintained hovering around.500 and Cliff Lee blanked the Marlins? Because Utley, Howard, and Rollins are using their magical Benjamin Button reverse aging potion? Or because we're supposed to think that Roy Halladay SHOULD return this year to his old self again and that Kyle Kendrick is a good #3 guy at best?"

What do you think? Leave your comments below.

Will the Phillies (23-24) make the playoffs?

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