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Power Rankings: Lakers, Cavs finish 1-2

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com

Monday, April 13, 2009

It was a tougher call, honestly, than deciding whom to put atop our MVP ballot. Far tougher. These, though, are precisely the sort of complex rulings that the committee (of one) was commissioned to make. So ... The Los Angeles Lakers -- on the season's 26th and final Monday for our human, subjective and thoroughly nonautomated check of the league's team-by-team pulse -- claim the No. 1 spot in the farewell edition of ESPN.com's weekly NBA Power Rankings, narrowly holding off the Cleveland Cavali ...

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