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Article: NBA Basketball: NBA Playoff Preview New Jersey Nets (2) vs. Detroit Pistons (1).
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- The Sports Network
- Article date:
- May 17, 2003
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May 17, 2003 (The Sports Network via COMTEX)
By Joe Aquilar, NBA Editor
(Sports Network) - After two rounds of postseason basketball, the first and second seeds in the Eastern Conference will square off for the right to face the West in this year's NBA Finals. The two combatants took much different roads to their eventual destination.
The New Jersey Nets made short work of the Boston Celtics. New Jersey's tidy handling of its business afforded it the luxury of rest and preparation before its conference finals series. New Jersey is a team that is rapidly becoming hardened by the rigors of playoff basketball. The Nets shocked the world by ...