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Lakers' wrongs making things right

By Ric Bucher
ESPN the Magazine

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not praise him The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. — Mark Antony in William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Me? I come to praise the Lakers, not bury them. The shortsighted and overblown expectation that they'd win this year's championship has done them a mighty disservice, for it has far too many people believing that this season has been a disap ...

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