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LOS ANGELES - It had to come to this, of course. Game 7. This title fight in the NBA Finals has been too ragged and full of counter-punches to have produced an actual recognizable trend. No way, it wouldn't go the distance.
Which brings us to Tuesday night. The Los Angeles Lakers made their point.
The Boston Celtics had trouble making anything.
So there will be a Game 7 in the NBA Finals for only the third time in 22 years - the Lakers vs. the Celtics, to boot. "A special treat for the NBA," Boston's Ray Allen said. "It's like this is what we were born to do."
ABC is happy, the Lakers are happy, the Hollywood crowd is happy, David Stern is happy.
Everyone but the Celtics, who might need smelling salts after Tuesday night's haymaker. Losing 89-67, they were hit with everything in the Staples Center but Kobe Bryant's kitchen sink. The bandage under Rajon Rondo's chin after the game? Maybe he was hit by Bryant's sink, though he said it was a Ron Artest elbow.
Obviously, the Lakers were serious. "We were trying to determine our own fate tonight," Phil Jackson said. LOS ANGELES - It had to come to this, of course. Game 7. This title fight in the NBA Finals has been too ragged and full of counter-punches to have produced an actual recognizable trend. No way, it wouldn't go the distance.
Which brings us to Tuesday night. The Los Angeles Lakers made their point.The Boston Celtics had trouble making anything.
So there will be a Game 7 in the NBA Finals for only the third time in 22 years - the Lakers vs. the Celtics, to boot. "A special treat for the NBA," Boston's Ray Allen said. "It's like this is what we were born to do."
Source: USA Today
Source: USA Today
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By: bob on 6/16/2010 9:08AM
Basketball is a farse. A moneymaking championship wrestling type sport. Ask yourself why does it almost always go seven games? No defense,officials can call a foul at any time,travel anytime carry anytime because that is what they do the whole game. Just like football since you can use your hands the officials can call holding anytime during the game.college
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By: meanvee on 6/16/2010 8:30PM
I'm a celtics fan, but game 7 in the staple center, I don't know. The big three better be hitting on all cylinders together in the same game for the first time in this series or else that's all she wrote.
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