<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">With the large lead, Silas played James just eight minutes in the second half and a season-low 30 overall. "His play was very impressive tonight and amazing," Silas said of James. "He's truly amazing. It was good to get him some rest tonight. He's playing almost 44 minutes per game, which is too many, but you need to play him a lot of minutes because you want to win." "I want to be in the game," James said. "I'm not used to sitting on no bench, it's not what I do, but any time our team is winning like that, I'm having fun on the bench cheering on my teammates." Bobcats forward Gerald Wallace was ejected after picking up a pair of third-quarter flagrant fouls, one on James and one while trying to block Gooden. Charlotte coach Bernie Bickerstaff also was tossed for arguing Wallace's second flagrant foul. "That's what the guy does," Bickerstaff said. "He contests shots and went clean for it. I think once they review the file he shouldn't be ejected. We've looked at the film, I've had plenty of time." "Some unfortunate stuff happened," Charlotte forward Melvin Ely said. "The person that brings the energy to the team was out and it really hurts when you have a man like that out." Keith Bogans scored 14 points and Ely added 10 for the Bobcats, who did not have a starter score in double figures. "We cut the lead down from 20 to 11," Bogans said. "But when we got those four technical fouls it took the air out of us a little bit." </div> Source
LeBron and the Cavaliers went on to win both games of this home and home series. The final score of the second game was 100-83.
