Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Celtics 131 Lakers 92 - As a whole, the Western Conference was definitely stronger; but the best team came from the East. The Boston Celtics just demolished the Los Angeles Lakers to win their first title in 22 years. Defense wins championships, and this time was no different. Everytime a ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
Lakers 103 Celtics 98 - The games between the Lakers and Celtics are becoming old habit. One team will jump out to the lead while the other one will furiously come back to make it a game. Game 5 was no different. LA jumped out to 17 and 14 point ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Celtics 97 Lakers 91 - What a sick game. LA took control of this game early by being aggressive, especially in driving the ball to the hole. Lamar Odom led the charge scoring 13 points in the first quarter; almost outscoring Boston on his own. The Celtics would manage mini-runs ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Lakers 87 Celtics 81 - The league MVP stepped up big. Kobe Bryant led the Lakers with 36 points, constantly hitting open jumpers and abusing whoever the Celtics put on him. Bryant wouldn't let what happened at the end of game 2 happen again. He wasn't going to be denied ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Celtics 108 Lakers 102 - Boston is two games away from it's 17th NBA championship. But they didn't make it easy on themselves. The Lakers were down 24 points with eight minutes to go, but went on a 31-9 run to pull to 104-102 on two free throws by Kobe ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Celtics 98 Lakers 88 - Game 1 had everything you could have asked for. The two teams went back and forth exchanging the lead, the stars scored, and a scary injury that looked worse than initially thought. Paul Pierce defended Kobe Bryant as he drove for a fadeaway shot along ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Celtics 89 Pistons 81 - Things looked bleak for Boston at the beginning of the fourth quarter. Down double digits, the Celtics refused to give up and went on a 10-0 run to tie the game. After a couple minutes of exchanging baskets, Paul Pierce took over. Something eerily similar ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Lakers 100 Spurs 92 - Los Angeles didn't want to go back to San Antonio. Down 17 points early, Kobe Bryant (39 pts) led the comeback that would end the defending champions reign on top of the NBA. The Spurs came out hot, using a 15-1 run to push the ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Celtics 106 Pistons 102 - Boston had everything running smoothly. Ray Allen (29 pts) was hitting open jump shots, Rajon Rondo was breaking down the defense, and Kendrick Perkins (18 pts 16 reb) was a rebounding machine. But in the fourth quarter all that changed. Up 15 points, the Pistons ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Lakers 93 Spurs 91 - Brent Barry (23 pts) was fouled, but you won't hear that complaint coming out of the Spurs locker room. Down two with 2.1 seconds left, Barry took the inbounds pass, pumpfaked (Derek Fisher jumped in the air), took a hard dribble right only to run ...
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