msn.foxsports.com - 6/4/2008
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While most people have the Lakers winning, this article predicts the Celtics in 6!
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Bucks Diary —
... Now this morning on Foxsports.com, WhatIf Sports did one of there "10,000 times" Monte Carlo simulations of the NBA Finals and they came up with the Celtics in 6, so that leans decidedly to Boston. That makes sense. But, remember, I think the professor that wrote that original sabermetric baseball book back in the 1960s proved that a seven game series will often yield irrational results. ...
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NBA.com: News 6/4/2008
In the LOS ANGELES TIMES, Mark Heisler writes "if, as Jerry West says, the NBA's greatest rivalry wasn't a rivalry at first since the Lakers never won in the '60s and the Boston Celtics never lost, it already seemed bigger than mere life or death, at ...
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