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Article: Rockets pad their winning-streak
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 14, 2004
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Rockets pad their winning-streak
Associated Press
Sunday, March 14, 2004
Jim Jackson scored 20 points and hit a crucial running jumper with
50 seconds to play as the Houston Rockets won their fifth straight
game, 88-80 over Memphis on Saturday night in Houston to snap the
Grizzlies' seven-game winning streak.
The Rockets' streak is the longest current winning streak in the
Western Conference, and they worked hard to get it.
Houston built a 78-64 lead early in the fourth quarter, its
biggest of the game, but the Grizzlies cut it to six points on two
occasions, the last with 2:11 to play on a basket by Pau Gasol.
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the final five ...