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Article: Lakers Know How to Close in NBA Finals
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- June 5, 2004
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GREG BEACHAM, AP Sports Writer
AP Online
06-05-2004
Dateline: LOS ANGELES
Los Angeles Lakers' coach Phil Jackson, center, holds a team meeting after practice Friday, June 4, 2004, in El Segundo, Calif. Lakers will take on the Detroit Pistons in the 2004 NBA Finals on Sunday. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
The Lakers have an air of supreme confidence heading into the NBA Finals, and it's the product of many factors that boil down to one time-tested truth.
Though every team hopes and plans to play its best basketball in the spring, the Lakers really know how to do it.
They were a mess of conflicting skills and rampaging egos for most of their tumultuous season, but they've won 14 of their last ...