In the NBA playoffs, there is a place they all want to be.

Guts City.

The 76ers have treated themselves to another round, mainly because they were able to grind out a Guts City series against the larger, physically superior New Orleans Hornets.

They won it because of Allen Iverson - hank of hair, bit of bone, 10 tons of heart. Forty-five points in 47 minutes in that Guts City sixth game on Friday night in a hostile arena that shuddered with sound.

And they won it because of the one 76er who has never been accused of being a Guts City player: Keith Van Horn, who has been coach Larry Brown's designated whipping boy all season long, and the object of cruel, slanderous, mean-spirited rantings from other quarters.