sports.yahoo.com - 5/12/2008
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Detroit 90, Orlando
89
We'll have a Detroit-only column coming around the bend
pretty soon, and I don't want to run the risk of repetition, so pardon me while
I focus on the ways in which Orlando
blew this one.
Up 15 with eight and a half minutes left in the third
quarter, the Magic clanged three three-pointers, bombs that the team thought
were going to break Detroit's
back. The ...
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