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Ronald Murray got the starting nod for the Pacers last night. This is not shocking because he's been getting minutes. It is odd though, that a team in Indiana's position would rather give Flip run than let Travis Diener develop further; presumably this could also be a move to let Diener get more comfortable in the role he was used to. Or something. Regardless, Flip certainly has value as someone who will score points and pick up threes while hurting your percentages and not really giving you many assists from the PG position. If that's something you're interested in.

Hot Cakes
Z-Bo represent! Zach Randolph scored 21 points and pulled down 14 boards while starting at center against the Pacers on St. Patty's Day, showing us what he should have been doing all along in the Eastern Conference. Were it not for that stupid Eddy Curry and those meddling kids. Randolph's shooting percentage was looked about as appeasing as a Guinness at 6 a.m., but that should improve some as he takes more shots in the post. Still, he's going to have a nice run to close out the season for fantasy owners.

Josh Powell put up a double-double last night against the defenseless Al Jefferson, going for 10 points, 12 boards and two blocks. Powell is a low end center, obviously, but you could do worse around playoff time. Of course, beware the insanely high rate with which he picks up personal fouls as those aren't always "great" for court time. He should see plenty of run until Chris Kaman returns.

Flip Murray played one of his best games of the season for the Pistons on Tuesday, which is somewhat remarkable considering the harrowing events he went through the night before. From ClickonDetroit.com, the online presence of metro Detroit's local NBC affiliate:

Troy police said they are investigating a report that someone fired shots at a member of the Detroit Pistons. According to the report, Pistons reserve Flip Murray left The Sting strip club Monday night and drove to his home in Troy.

Someone who had been following Murray fired three shots at him before driving off, according to the report.

Murray was not injured.

It's definitely surprising that coverage of this incident hasn't been picked up by the rest of the local media -- I haven't seen anything in the papers about it, and when I first read the report this morning I automatically assumed it was from last night, not Monday.

This isn't the type of incident you'd expect the team to sweep under the carpet, but I'm guessing they would have been a little more forthcoming had Murray been returning from, say, the grocery store. But, given what we know, I should stress that it doesn't look like Murray did anything wrong whatsoever.

Again, fortunately no one was hurt, and hopefully as the rest of the Detroit media picks up on the story more details will emerge.

[Update: It appears to be more of a home invasion attempt than a drive-by.]