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Orlando had to play a perfect game in game 6.  To put it bluntly, they didn’t
SCOTT JACOBS

In order to make history, you have to put yourself in position to defy it.

The Magic walked into the TD Garden on Friday night halfway home to a feat no NBA team had ever accomplished.
And they walked out, halfway [...]

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Is two epic Beantown collapses possible in the same month?  Logic says no, but crazier things have happened before
SCOTT JACOBS
Alive.  By the skin of their chinny, chin, chin.
Their bluebacksides nearly halfway out the door, Orlando is still kicking.  The odds are still thoroughly stacked against them as they attempt to chip away at a deficit [...]

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With their backs halfway out the door, this writer thinks Orlando would love to swap their new toy Vince for the older more reliable Hedo Turkoglu
SCOTT JACOBS
Hindsight’s a funny thing.
We can take something, usually way after the fact, break it down, tear it up, crunch it up into a little ball, and vehemently proclaim, well, [...]

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Orlando’s franchise center has the talent to take over the basketball universe, but does he have the drive and the maturity to truly become great?  That is the question
SCOTT JACOBS
The man with the million dollar smile and the multi million dollar contract sat on the podium, taking questions from reporters just minutes after a discouraging [...]

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SCOTT JACOBS
Maybe it was the look that Kobe Bryant had in his eyes during game one when the LA Lakers disposed of Orlando in one of the largest shellackings in NBA history.  Maybe it was the goaltend that wasn’t called, and the shot that wasn’t made as time expired in game two, giving the Lakers [...]

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The Magic had no answers for the unstoppable Kobe Bryant, but can they make the necessary adjustments in game two?
NEIL DOUGH
Stan Van Gundy is still awake. He’s sitting in his hotel room breakfast nook, reading his morning paper, gently sipping on his mocha choka latte, and throwing down his Denny’s Grand Slam. He [...]

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Magic or Lakers?  Juiced Sports’ finest take their crack at predicting the 2009 Finals (LeBron James not included)
SCOTT JACOBS
The Nike Puppets have gone to the witness protection program (pun intended) and Vitamin Water has replaced the Black Mamba and The King with Superman.  The Cavs called in sick, and so in place of the much [...]

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Stan will be calling the shots from the sideline, Jeff will be wrecking havoc court side for ABC, and that can only mean one thing: hilarity is inevitable starting Thursday night
NEIL DOUGH
If there is ever a fight, or a tussle, even an argument in an NBA game, I still look for Jeff [...]

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