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    11/27/1996: Utah Jazz 107 - Denver Nuggets 103
    1st: 19 - 37
    2nd: 17 - 33
    3rd: 36 - 15
    4th: 35 - 18


    12/6/2002: Los Angeles Lakers 105 - Dallas Mavericks 103
    1st: 24 - 29
    2nd: 12 - 35
    3rd: 25 - 24
    4th: 44 - 15


    LOS ANGELES (Ticker) -- If the Los Angeles Lakers go on to win
    their fourth straight title, this will be the game in which they
    turned their season around.

    The Lakers staged one of the greatest comebacks in NBA history,
    erasing a 30-point deficit for an improbable 105-103 victory
    over the league-leading Dallas Mavericks, who have to believe
    they are hexed in Hollywood.

    Kobe Bryant scored 21 of his 27 points in the fourth quarter,
    when the three-time defending champions climbed out of an 88-61
    hole with a rally that rocked the Staples Center. Bryant's
    spinning jumper with 8.4 seconds left gave the Lakers the win.

    "It shows we still have the heart of a champion," Bryant said.

    The comeback was the biggest in franchise history. The Lakers
    had erased a 25-point deficit to beat Chicago on April 3, 1979.
    They fell just short of the greatest comeback in NBA history,
    Utah's rally from a 34-point halftime deficit against Denver on
    November 27, 1996.

    "It's nice to have a team believe that they have the ability to
    overcome insurmountable odds, and it certainly looked
    insurmountable," Lakers coach Phil Jackson said.

    On the other side was the collapse by the Mavericks, who
    appeared to have swung the balance of power in the Western
    Conference in their favor until allowing 44 points in the final
    period.

    When Michael Finley's open 20-footer from the left wing clanged
    off the rim, the Mavs were saddled with their 24th straight loss
    in Tinseltown since December 12, 1990.

    "We choked, just flat-out choked," Dallas guard Nick Van Exel
    said. "They played like the world champs and we played scared,
    we played tentative and we just choked."

    "We probably need to go through this experience as a team," Mavs
    coach Don Nelson said. "It's going to be good for us. But it
    hurts like hell right now."

    Shaquille O'Neal had 26 points and 11 rebounds for the Lakers
    (8-13), who climbed out of the Pacific Division cellar,
    percentage points ahead of the crosstown Clippers and Golden
    State.

    "Tonight, for the first time in a long time, we showed that
    championship attitude," guard Brian Shaw said.

    "Confidence is not our problem. Our problem is complacency,"
    O'Neal said. "It's not going to be easy ... we just have to
    fight."

    Former Laker Van Exel scored 25 points, Steve Nash added 22 and
    Dirk Nowitzki 21 for the Mavs (17-2), who had a three-game
    winning streak snapped. Dallas shot a blistering 60 percent
    (15-of-25) from 3-point range but under 33 percent (18-of-55)
    inside the arc.

    A driving layup by Nash gave the Mavs a 92-69 lead with 9:25 to
    play, but Dallas went scoreless for nearly four minutes and LA
    scored 15 straight points.

    "As soon as we got it down to 10 with 8:36 to go, then it is a
    whole new ballgame," Bryant said. "From that point on it is just
    a matter of taking our time and really executing."

    Bryant took over down the stretch. He had two free throws, a
    3-pointer and a driving finger roll before O'Neal scored to make
    it 96-93 with 3:08 remaining. Nash threw in a scoop shot, but
    Bryant had a reverse layup and drive around two foul shots by
    Nash, then found Brian Shaw for a 3-pointer that tied it,
    100-100, with 1:28 left.

    "We stopped playing. I don't know what happened," Nash said.
    "We had a hard time scoring and we were terrible defensively in
    the fourth quarter. It was too easy in the first half and too
    difficult in the fourth quarter. I can't explain it."

    Ten seconds later, a free throw by Robert Horry gave the Lakers
    the lead. Van Exel answered with a 3-pointer for a 103-101 lead
    with 1:04 to play, but Shaw drilled a corner jumper to tie it
    again just six seconds later.

    Horry scored 11 points for the Lakers, who shot 51 percent
    (38-of-74), including a sizzling 89 percent (16-of-18) in the
    fourth quarter.

    Finley scored 11 points on 4-of-19 shooting for Dallas.

    "You grow when you go through tough times together," Nelson
    said. "This is definitely a tough time for us."

    The Lakers were booed off the floor in the first half. The Mavs
    used four 3-pointers to race to a 22-10 lead, allowed the
    Lakers to creep within 31-30 early in the second quarter, then
    seemingly obliterated them with a 33-6 rush to the end of the
    period.

    In the final 1:44 of the first half, Van Exel, Nash and Nowitzki
    buried 3-pointers and Finley and Nowitzki drove for three-point
    plays, completing a frightening 15-0 run for a 64-36 lead that
    had owner Mark Cuban whooping it up behind the bench.

    "If at any point we should have given up, tonight would have
    been the perfect time for us to do that," Shaw said.

    A layup by Adrian Griffin opened the third quarter and gave
    Dallas its largest lead. Two free throws by Bryant cut the
    deficit to 75-56 with 3:12 left, but Finley made two 3-pointers
    and Van Exel one to help rebuild the lead to 27 points entering
    the final period.

  • #2
    How bout this one......
    T-mac's version of impossible is nothing:

    Tracy McGrady rampage smokes the San Antonio Spurs. The greatest performance in the history of basketball.

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    • #3
      I think there won't be a better example of "impossible is nothing" than Reggie Miller's 8 points in 16 seconds to beat the Knicks.

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