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Lakers Open Finals With 19 Game Win Streak
(AP) — Allen Iverson is glad
that most people don’t think the
Philadelphia 76ers can beat the Los
Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals.
“ Everybody has counted us out,
and I feel good about that,” Iverson
said Monday. “All the pressure is
on them. It’s like David vs. Goliath.
Everybody picks the Lakers be
cause they look like the sure shot.
That’s fine with us. We like it that
way.”
The Lakers, who haven’t lost in
more than two months, take a 19-
game winning streak into Game 1 of
the finals Wednesday night at the
Staples Center. Los Angeles is a
12-point favorite in the opener.
Philadelphia, making its first trip to
the finals in 18 years, is coming off
consecutive seven-game series.
“ A nybody
who is going to
play the Lakers
after they won
19
s tra ig h t
would be con
sidered an un
derdog against
them ,” Sixers
c o a ch L arry
B row n said .
“But I know my
team, I believe
in them and you
n ev e r know
w h at
th ese
guys can ac Allen Iverson leads his 76ers into the NBA Finals against
the Lakers.
complish.”
The Sixers
franchise-best 10 straight victories.
have been proving people wrong
The team has overcome numerous
since they began the season with a
injuries, including a broken foot
that has kept forward George
Lynch out o f the last 10 games.
“When things don’t look good,
people count us out, and that's
when we pull together,” Aaron
McKie said. “We don’t want to
go out there just to be there. Our
focus is to win the series. Whether
it’s here or there doesn’t make a
difference.”
The series w ould’ve opened at
the First Union Center if the Sixers
had beaten the last-place Chicago
Bulls on the final day o f the regu
lar season.
Instead, Iverson and Dikembe
Mutombo sat out, and Brown
rested most o f his other starters
to prepare for the playoffs. It took
a late 10-0 run for the Bulls, who
finished with a league-worst 15-67
record, to beat Philadelphia’s re
serves 92-86.
The loss tied the Sixers with the
Lakers at 56-26. Los Angeles got
the homecourt edge on a tiebreaker
— better record against the oppo
site conference.
After the loss to Chicago, Brown
said he wasn ’ t looking ahead to the
finals, didn't want to risk injury to
any o f his key players and was
more concerned with getting out of
the East.
Brown said Monday he doesn’t
have any regrets about the way he
handled the final game.
“I didn’t rest the guys just to rest
them,” Brown said. “They were le
gitim ately hurt. I ’m not smart
enough to plan that far ahead. If I
had to do it all over again, I’d do it
the same way.”
Iverson didn’t play against the
Bulls because he was on the in
jured list with bursitis in his right
elbow, an injury that continues to
bother him and forces him to wear
a protective sleeve on his arm.
Mutombo had a sprained toe and
missed his only game since coming
to the Sixers in a trade on Feb. 22.
“Them having the homecourt is
just another adverse situation, and
we’re motivated by that,” McKie
said.
Los Angeles has never lost Game
1 o f a playoff series since Phil Jack-
son became its coach last season,
posting double-digit victories in
all but one of its seven series-open
ing games.
Rice Moves Across Major League Representative Visits PGE Park
Bay to Raiders
ALAMEDA, Calif.(AP) — Jerry
Rice officially moved across San
Francisco Bay on Tuesday, becom
ing a member o f the Oakland Raid
ers.
“I’m glad
to be here,
I’m glad to be
a p a rt o f
th is ,” R ice
said, thank
ing the Raid
ers fo r “ a
ch a n ce to
continue do
ing what I ’ve
been doing
for 16 years.”
A fte r a
r e c o rd -s e t
tin g ca ree r
with
(AP) - A representative
from Major League Baseball
visited Portland on Thursday
to see if the city would be a
good place to relocate a strug
gling franchise.
Some baseball fans think that
Portland is ready for a major
league team.
They also think the timing is
right because the Montreal
Expos and the Tampa Bay
Devil Rays are suffering fi
nancial losses and might want
to move.
“We have a long-term strat
egy to bring major league base
ball to Portland, and w e’re
right on course,” said Steve
Kanter, president of the Or
egon Baseball Coalition, who
helped arrange Corey Busch’s
visit.
league, to come to a team o f this
magnitude, I’m excited about the
possibilities,” Rice said. “It was
time to move on, and this is prob
ably a great situation where I can
the ________________
49ers, Rice j e rry f t j c e
d idn’t want
to stray far from his mansion, his
family or his fans after being re
leased by San Francisco on Mon
day because o f salary cap prob
lems.
Rice, who won three Super Bowls
with the 49ers, moves from a re
building team to a squad that
reached the AFC Championship
Game last season.
“I’m living a dream right now. A
situation like this doesn’t happen
that often. After 16 years in the
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Rice, who holds every signifi
cant NFL receiving mark, has said
he would like to play at least two
more years.
He wore his usual No. 80 — but
in Raiders silver and black instead
ofhis familiar49ers colors — while
participating in an informal prac
tice session Tuesday morning.
“Hey, I look good in it, man,”
Rice joked. “I was saying, Hey
guys, I look pretty good.’”
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