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Article: Big night in the Arena for Warriors Record crowd watches Dampier, Claxton lead Golden State over Lakers
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- Oakland Tribune
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- December 24, 2003
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OAKLAND -- There aren't a whole lot of teams that look forward to
playing the Los Angeles Lakers, but the Golden State Warriors were
one of them Tuesday night.
Inspired by a postgame comment by Lakers coach Phil Jackson
following the team's first meeting of the season last month, the
Warriors used second- and third-quarter bursts to build a big lead
and then rather comfortably held on for a 107-98 shocker before an
Arena-record crowd of 20,310.
Jackson had noted that his team had played to the level of the
competition -- a direct slap at the Warriors -- in explaining a
rather ugly 87-72 home win on Nov.2.
Several times in the past eight weeks, Warriors coach Eric
Musselman had assured ...