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Pistons to Face Spurs in NBA Finals
Best of seven games begin Thursday
( A P ) - I t’11 be a much antici
pated first gam e, with shouts
and scream s hurled tow ard
television sets across the na
tion on Thursday night. D e
fending cham pions the D etroit
Pistons beat the M iam i Heat
88-82 Monday night in Game 7
o f the E astern C onference fi
nals, advancing to face the San
A ntonio Spurs in the NBA F i
nals.
San A n to n io , w hich w on
the title in 1999 and 2003, has
been re stin g and p ra c tic in g sin ce
e lim in a tin g P h o en ix in G am e 5 o f the
W estern C o n fe re n c e fin a ls on June 1.
“They have won tw o cham pionships
with G regg (Popovich) and not many
people talk about it,” Pistons coach
Larry Brow n said o f his counterpart.
“A nd w e’re the defending cham ps, and
not m any people talk about that.”
G am e 1 is T hursday night in San
A ntonio and G am e 2 is there Sunday
before the series shifts to suburban
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Boise-Eliot fifth graders Sasha Perez (from left), Jennifer Clarkson, Desiree Henderson, Dominique
Farlow and Raven Hayes try their hardest at tug-of-war during a NikeGo Field Day on the Nike campus
in Beaverton. Nike volunteers taught physical education at the north Portland school this year and
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Beyond it’s green philosophy,
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