Wells Fargo Center

The graphic came up on the big video scoreboard, and suddenly tension gripped the rambunctious sellout crowd at the Wells Fargo Center. Celtics vs. Sixers, Game Six, Wednesday. Tickets available for purchase behind Section 122.   At the time, the score in Celtics vs. Sixers, Game Four was 88-83, and there were 33 seconds left in regulation as Jodie Meeks stepped to the free throw line. In 33 seconds in the NBA, you can consume a full-course meal. Kiss of death?

Lavoy Allen's impact in the Sixers' second-round playoff matchup with the Celtics, knotted at two games apiece with Game 5 to be played Monday in Boston, can't be overstated. The 6-foot-9, 254-pounder logged almost 33 minutes against Boston in the Sixers' dramatic 92-83 come-from-behind victory Friday night at the Wells Fargo Center. As the Sixers came back from 18 points down in the third quarter, Allen grabbed a team-high 10 rebounds. But his greatest impact has been at the defensive end. With Elton Brand battling neck and shoulder injuries, Sixers coach Doug Collins has seen fit to use the physical and deceptively swift-of-foot Allen to guard future Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett.

THESE WERE the type of moments that made Allen Iverson a legend in Philadelphia - season on the line, odds all against you, desperate situation. I guess it was only fitting that Wednesday was the night that Sixers management persuaded Iverson to come home. If ever the Sixers needed the kind of inspiration that Iverson provided for a decade in South Philadelphia, it was Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, trailing the Boston Celtics, 3-2. I'm not really the metaphysical type.

Bruce Springsteen has been added to this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival lineup. Springsteen and the Clarence Clemons -less E Street Band will perform on April 29. It'll be Springsteen's first Jazz Fest appearance since 2006, when he took the stage with his Seeger Sessions project less than a year after Hurricane Katrina. Eddie Vedder and rapper Mystikal also have been added. They join a previously announced roster that includes the Eagles , a reunion of the Beach Boys , Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers , Foo Fighters , Zac Brown Band and John Mayer , the Neville Brothers , Al Green and My Morning Jacket . Hundreds of acts will perform on roughly a dozen stages over two weekends from April 27 to May 6. * If you can't make it to the Big Easy, the Boss and his band will perform two shows at the Wells Fargo Center on March 28 and 29, as part of the first U.S. leg of the 2012 "Wrecking Ball" World Tour.

BOSTON - If all the 76ers wanted from Game 5 against the Boston Celtics was a decent chance to take control of their Eastern Conference semifinal series, the Celtics certainly provided it Monday night with a lackluster opening half in which the Sixers easily could have put some distance between the teams. The Sixers failed to do that, however, and paid the price in a dreadful second half as the Celtics took a three-games-to-two lead and now can close out the series Wednesday at the Wells Fargo Center.

Every stop along the way in the playoffs, every new situation, every game this group of 76ers team had never faced before - all of these new experiences are things Doug Collins has cherished for his team as it has maneuvered in the current postseason. Regardless of the individual result, it's all good for the future, according to the coach, even if the present remains an unfinished work. Now, after all that fresh exposure, the Sixers face a challenge they have seen before . . . a potential elimination game.

Long after the Boston Celtics had blown Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the 76ers in the Wells Fargo Center on Friday night, long after the final firecracker had popped and last stunned reveler had stumbled into the parking lot, Doc Rivers still stared at the box score. He peered at it carefully like an accident investigator trying to separate the cause from the debris, but the numbers provided more questions than answers. They told what happened, but the "why" was left for Rivers to fill in himself.

Because they had just eliminated a team whom they had put in the untenable position of being down 3-1 in a best-of-seven series, the Sixers knew this was not where they wanted to be heading into Boston for Game 5 of their semifinal series against the Celtics. Only eight times in NBA history has a team rallied from a 3-1 deficit to come back to win a playoff series, something the Sixers heard repeated over and over again after going up 3-1 against Chicago in the first round. And had the Sixers not overcome a huge third-quarter deficit with an unbelievable rally on Friday, this is where they would find themselves.

With the turn of the calendar from June 30 to July 1 yesterday, the Wachovia Center has become the Wells Fargo Center with the start of the new fiscal year. Wachovia, which owned the building's naming rights, was bought out by Wells Fargo Corporation effective Dec. 31, 2008. Wells Fargo now holds the naming rights at a reported cost of $1.4 million per year until the contract expires on June 30, 2023. No signage has been replaced in the building, which will publicly undergo its fourth name change transition this fall before the Flyers and 76ers begin their seasons in October.

Comcast-Spectacor, owner and operator of the Wachovia Center, is changing the name of the 21,000-seat home of the Flyers and 76ers, to the Wells Fargo Center, effective immediately, to reflect the name change in the financial institutions, it was announced Tuesday by Comcast-Spectacor President Peter Luukko. "As the owner and operator of the arena, Comcast-Spectacor is honoring the contract as it was agreed upon with the bank that the successor shall keep the naming rights of the facility," said Luukko.

OK, I CONCEDE that next 20-plus inches of copy will be irrelevant come Saturday, when the Sixers and Boston Celtics tip off for the decisive Game 7 in their Eastern Conference semifinal series. Anyone who tells you they know what will happen in Boston is making things up as they go along. This could be the most confounding series I have ever covered. Nothing has gone to script and little has made any practical sense. There's been no logic to what has happened game-to-game, quarter-to-quarter, minute-to-minute.

The 76ers have looked for Evan Turner to grab rebounds, start the fastbreak when the opportunity presents, and to score more. It's something that Sixers coach Doug Collins has implored him to do. But one of his more pressing assignments going into Wednesday's win-or-go-home Game 6 victory over the Boston Celtics at Wells Fargo Center was to play a major role in helping to slow Boston's mercurial point guard Rajon Rondo. Not an easy task in this series, which has seen Rondo, on top of averaging 14.4 points and 14.6 assists through five games, mostly control the tempo in just about every game.

THESE WERE the type of moments that made Allen Iverson a legend in Philadelphia - season on the line, odds all against you, desperate situation. I guess it was only fitting that Wednesday was the night that Sixers management persuaded Iverson to come home. If ever the Sixers needed the kind of inspiration that Iverson provided for a decade in South Philadelphia, it was Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, trailing the Boston Celtics, 3-2. I'm not really the metaphysical type.

Every stop along the way in the playoffs, every new situation, every game this group of 76ers team had never faced before - all of these new experiences are things Doug Collins has cherished for his team as it has maneuvered in the current postseason. Regardless of the individual result, it's all good for the future, according to the coach, even if the present remains an unfinished work. Now, after all that fresh exposure, the Sixers face a challenge they have seen before . . . a potential elimination game.

THE SIXERS might have chuckled at Kevin Garnett's comments about their fans, but they neither agreed nor appreciated them. "We'll see the fans tomorrow," Elton Brand said after Tuesday's light practice. "We appreciate our fans. We know we have their support and they've got our backs. I'm sure they're going to show him how fair-weather they are tomorrow. " Following the Celtics' 101-85 victory in Game 5 on Monday night in Boston, Garnett said Philadelphia fans weren't as loyal as Boston fans.

BOSTON - It wasn't youth that played the biggest role in the 76ers' not putting the hammer down on the Boston Celtics and returning to Philly with a series lead. And it wasn't the wise old vets in the green-and-white just tapping into their playoff experience, either. What did the Sixers in, what allowed Boston to take a 101-85 victory and a lead of three games to two at the TD Garden Monday was simply bad and, at times, stupid basketball by the visitors. The youth excuse can be thrown out there.

BOSTON - If all the 76ers wanted from Game 5 against the Boston Celtics was a decent chance to take control of their Eastern Conference semifinal series, the Celtics certainly provided it Monday night with a lackluster opening half in which the Sixers easily could have put some distance between the teams. The Sixers failed to do that, however, and paid the price in a dreadful second half as the Celtics took a three-games-to-two lead and now can close out the series Wednesday at the Wells Fargo Center.

Long after the Boston Celtics had blown Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the 76ers in the Wells Fargo Center on Friday night, long after the final firecracker had popped and last stunned reveler had stumbled into the parking lot, Doc Rivers still stared at the box score. He peered at it carefully like an accident investigator trying to separate the cause from the debris, but the numbers provided more questions than answers. They told what happened, but the "why" was left for Rivers to fill in himself.

Because they had just eliminated a team whom they had put in the untenable position of being down 3-1 in a best-of-seven series, the Sixers knew this was not where they wanted to be heading into Boston for Game 5 of their semifinal series against the Celtics. Only eight times in NBA history has a team rallied from a 3-1 deficit to come back to win a playoff series, something the Sixers heard repeated over and over again after going up 3-1 against Chicago in the first round. And had the Sixers not overcome a huge third-quarter deficit with an unbelievable rally on Friday, this is where they would find themselves.

Lavoy Allen's impact in the Sixers' second-round playoff matchup with the Celtics, knotted at two games apiece with Game 5 to be played Monday in Boston, can't be overstated. The 6-foot-9, 254-pounder logged almost 33 minutes against Boston in the Sixers' dramatic 92-83 come-from-behind victory Friday night at the Wells Fargo Center. As the Sixers came back from 18 points down in the third quarter, Allen grabbed a team-high 10 rebounds. But his greatest impact has been at the defensive end. With Elton Brand battling neck and shoulder injuries, Sixers coach Doug Collins has seen fit to use the physical and deceptively swift-of-foot Allen to guard future Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett.