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Article: Rick Adelman pulls the carpet out from under Kings.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- May 7, 2002
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ Ask not for whom the cowbell tolls.
Instead, get this:
With their mortality staring them smack in the face early in Monday's Game 2, the Mavericks erupted to life and silenced the Sacramento Kings 110-102 to square their NBA playoff series at a game apiece.
Never mind those infernal Sacramento cowbells. Nothing stifles a home crowd as much as guests who won't behave.
We're talking about Steve Nash, mostly. And Nick Van Exel. And finally, after six quarters of contributing mostly nothing to the Mavericks' effort, there was Raef LaFrentz, arriving fashionably late.
The turnabout was startling. The Kings ...