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Article: GUARDED OPTIMISM BIBBY, JACKSON KEEPING KINGS IN SERIES.(Sports)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- May 23, 2002
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Byline: Vincent Bonsignore Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - Mike Bibby remembers the countdown beginning 40 games into the season. That's when some of his Vancouver Grizzlies teammates would start looking forward to the end of another miserable season.
At a time when most teams were gearing up for a playoff run, the Grizzlies were giving up.
Bibby, the Sacramento Kings' crafty point guard and a thorn in the side of the Lakers two games into the Western Conference finals, cringes just thinking about the two lost years he spent in Vancouver before the Kings rescued him last summer in a trade for Jason Williams.
``At this time last year, I was ...