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Detroit's surprise party

By Eric Neel
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Tuesday, June 15, 2004

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Vegas had it 6-to-1. The other way. Everybody said four, maybe five games. The other way. What did people miss? How did we get it so wrong? As the Black Eyed Peas like to say, "Let's get it started" ... 1. The Hall of Fame thing fooled us. We were thinking Malone of the mid to late-'90s and Payton of '96, and more importantly, we were ignoring the fact that the Lakers didn't play as a unit for most of the year. They had no flow. "We're still a work in progress," ...

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