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Livin' la vida Lakers

By Eric Neel
Page 2

Friday, May 14, 2004

The second -- the four-tenths-of-a-second -- it was over, I called my buddy Wes. His little girl Ella was screaming in the background, apparently dancing around their Pasadena living room like a lottery winner. "I gotta call you back," he said. "Ella's kind of losing it right now." We hung up and I waited for the call back, staring at the phone, bouncing my knees like a meth addict hungry for a fix. Fisher's shot, the whole last 12 seconds of Game 5, wouldn't be real to me until I relive ...

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