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Lakers Championship Brings Talk of Dynasty
(AP) - Talk quickly turned to the
possibility o f a dynasty-in-the-mak-
ing after the Lakers beat the Philadel
phia 76ers 108-96Friday night in Game
5 o f the NBA Finals.
Los Angeles finished with a record
o f 15-1 in the playoffs, the best
postseason winning percentage in
league history.
With two perennial All-Stars in
Shaquille O ’Neal and Kobe Bryant
and a coach, Phil Jackson, who has
won eight titles in 10 years, the Lakers
have a foundation that could lead to
many more titles over the next several
seasons.
'"The first championship was just
to get the monkeyoffmyback,’’O ’Neal
said. “The ones I get from now on will
be to try to stamp my name in his
tory.”
O ’Neal, a nine-year veteran, three-
time finalist and two-time champion,
is cementing his spot as one o f the
most dominant big men in the history
o f the game, along with Wilt Cham
berlain, Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul-
Jabbar and George Mikan.
Jackson credited O ’Neal with be
coming more o f a team leader this
season, which was no small feat con-
Bryant eventually went to former
until we win another championship,
Lakers president Jerry W est’s house
and it’s going to happen again. It’s a
fora spaghetti
cycle. But hopefully we w on’t have
d in n e r th at
to go through what we went through
turned into a
this year.”
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The Lakers’ season took a sharp
v o lv e d d is
turn for the better after they lost to the
cussion about
New Y ork Knicks April 1.
basketball, re
They finished the season with eight
la ti o n s h i p s
straight victories, then rolled through
and winning
the Western Conference playoffs
c h a m p io n
with sweeps o f the Portland Trail
ships. Bryant
Blazers, Sacramento Kings and San
left vowing to
Antonio Spurs.
do his part to
The Lakers lost Game 1 o f the
repair the dis
finals to the 76ers before winning the
co rd a n t d y
final four games — the final two de
namic that had
cisively — to make history.
The Lakers celebrate victory an d a world cham pionship
infected the
“Shaq came out with a lot o f en
trophy.
team.
ergy after the All-Star break and said,
“ R ig h t
‘Now it’s time to start going,” ’ Jack-
sidering how fractured the team was
now, it’s a thing o f the past,” Bryant
son said. “He kept motivating the
during most o f the regular season.
said. “Next year, when people see us
team, he kept conditioning and re
The relationships between O ’Neal
talking aggressively it’s not going to
conditioning himself, taking a lot o f
and Bryant and Jackson and Bryant
be a thing o f the past. Som eone’s
time with free throw shots and all the
had deteriorated to the point where
going to blow it out o f proportion
things that are the weak points o f his
both players approached manage
A ce T y pew riter & E q uipm ent
ment and discussed the possibility
C O M P A N Y
o f being traded.
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game that he wanted to improve He
truly was a great leader.”
O ’N eal’s free throw shooting im
proved over the latter half o f the
season, although he remains as likely
to miss any given foul shot as he is to
make it. Case in point: His final free
throw o f the postseason was an airball
with3:41 leftinG am e5.
Any other player would have been
mortified by such an egregious miss
in such a big game, but O ’Neal has
learned how to take every moment in
stride and enjoy himself. His reaction
to the airball was a smile.
O ’Neal provided a daily dose o f
comic relief as the finals unfolded,
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His first words upon entering the
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night were: “ I’m drunk.”
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final buzzer sounded and the title
was secured.
”1 think I’m happy,” O ’Neal said.
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“And I ’m not done.”
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