<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">AUBURN HILLS -- Perhaps the Pistons should get Machiavellian with their potential playoff opponents the next few games. They should cough and shake hands with the Bulls before tonight's game at United Center. Or maybe sneeze a little Friday on the Nets at The Palace. Why? Judging by the way flu-like illness has spread through the Pistons, they might as well make their opponents miserable, too. Chris Webber, Richard Hamilton, and now Dale Davis are sick. The trio missed Wednesday's practice, and there is some doubt to their availability tonight. "It's a good time that it's come right now," guard Chauncey Billups said. "Hopefully it doesn't affect us later on -- next month or something. I'm just trying to make sure I don't get it." Webber has been struggling to overcome his illness for a week. Hamilton has been down for a few days. Davis was felled Wednesday. "That stuff almost got me," Rasheed Wallace said about the lurking germs. "Hopefully, it's just the 24-hour thing and guys won't miss too many games. But, of course, when you're sick and you try to play, it messes with your wind, and you've got to start all over again. So the majority of guys that aren't sick now are just trying to stay healthy. Or orange juice, more vitamins, things of that nature."</div> Source
