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Magic still believe despite Game 4 loss
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP)—Phil Jackson’s hands are almost full.
If the Los Angeles Lakers can close out the Orlando Magic in Game 5 of the NBA finals on Sunday for their 15th title, Jackson, the meditative Zen Master who retired as a player never imagining he would become pro basketball’s most successful coach, will pass Red Auerbach with 10 championships—a ring for each finger.
Jackson’s ascent into history has the coach who urges his players to live in the moment a tad uneasy.
“Talking about futuristic things kind of throws me for a loop,” he said Friday. “I do know that it’s a momentous thing.”
Los Angeles moved to brink of its first title since 2002 on Thursday when Derek Fisher(notes), the steady veteran with a final-second flair for drama, made two key 3-pointers in the Lakers’ 98-91 overtime against the running-out-of-time Orlando Magic, who now face a 3-1 mountain.
No team in finals history has ever come back from this far down, and 29 have tried.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP)—Phil Jackson’s hands are almost full.
If the Los Angeles Lakers can close out the Orlando Magic in Game 5 of the NBA finals on Sunday for their 15th title, Jackson, the meditative Zen Master who retired as a player never imagining he would become pro basketball’s most successful coach, will pass Red Auerbach with 10 championships—a ring for each finger.
Jackson’s ascent into history has the coach who urges his players to live in the moment a tad uneasy.
“Talking about futuristic things kind of throws me for a loop,” he said Friday. “I do know that it’s a momentous thing.”
Los Angeles moved to brink of its first title since 2002 on Thursday when Derek Fisher(notes), the steady veteran with a final-second flair for drama, made two key 3-pointers in the Lakers’ 98-91 overtime against the running-out-of-time Orlando Magic, who now face a 3-1 mountain.
No team in finals history has ever come back from this far down, and 29 have tried.