However, they never made it deeper in the playoffs, due to the dominance of the Los Angeles Lakers at the time.

However, in the playoffs, the Spurs would never find a break, losing to teams like the Washington Bullets, the Boston Celtics, the Houston Rockets, and the Los Angeles Lakers.

However, as the series shifted to Los Angeles, the Spurs would suddenly have trouble finding the basket, as they lost both games as the Lakers evened the series.

However, the Lakers ' Derek Fisher would launch a game-winner as time expired which would go in, giving the Lakers a stunning 74 – 73 win to take a 3 – 2 series lead.

However, the team has honored the number for Hall of Famer Jim Pollard, who wore it when the franchise was the Minneapolis Lakers.

However, arch-rivals Los Angeles Lakers defeated San Antonio in five games in the Conference Finals, and the Spurs once again failed to capture back-to-back NBA championships.

However, in the NBA Finals the Nationals would lose to the Minneapolis Lakers in a hard fought 7-game series where the 2 teams alternated wins throughout.

However, this was a failure, the Lakers enduring 9 – 30 record until Mikan stepped down and returned coaching duties to Kundla.

However, he decided to return for another run with the Lakers for the 2003 – 04 season as a backup to Karl Malone.

However, Denver Nuggets and Pepsi Center owner Stan Kroenke arranged a verbal agreement to book Game 4 of the NBA Western Conference Finals between the Nuggets and the Los Angeles Lakers on the same date prior to the Nuggets actually earning a slot in the playoffs.

However, the Lakers won 4 – 2 with superb play from, among others, Magic Johnson.

However, just as his season was gaining momentum, Wallace again broke his left thumb and was forced to miss the next month of the season, but he returned in time for a strong performance in the first round playoff series against the Los Angeles Lakers, which the Trail Blazers lost.

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) However, in the 1984 NBA Finals, the Celtics and Lakers met for the first time since 1969, and again, from Bird's performance, the Celtics toppled the Lakers 4 – 3.

However, the Detroit Pistons, under coach Larry Brown and led by Ben Wallace and Chauncey Billups, upset the Lakers in 5 to become the first Eastern Conference team since the 1998 Bulls to win the NBA championship.

However, when Bynum suffered a knee injury that appeared to jeopardize the Lakers ' playoff chances, Brown regained his starting position.

However, the Pacers lost the series to the Los Angeles Lakers.

However, the 76ers could not quite back up Malone's boast, losing one playoff game ( Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals to the Bucks ) en route to making Malone a world champion for the first time, sweeping the Knicks and Lakers along the way.

However, it came right to Horry, who hit the game-winning 3 at the buzzer to give the Lakers a 100-99 victory and tie the series at 2 going back to Sacramento for Game 5.

However, Harper had his redemption when he hit a clutch shot against the Lakers two years later in the 1986 playoffs.

However, McAdoo enjoyed a much more memorable end to his career, winning two NBA titles with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1982 and 1985 as the team's sixth man and a teammate to Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and James Worthy.

However, he lost his chance for the ultimate heroic moment as he missed a 12-foot jump shot right before the buzzer that would have secured the championship for the Lakers had it gone in.

However, the Australians fought back and Bradman won his first series in charge 3 – 2.

However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.

However, Cleveland only won a single pennant in the decade, in 1954, finishing second to the New York Yankees five times.

However, the Cubs have not won a World Series since 1908 ; this remains the longest championship drought in North American professional sports.

However, the Romans won a decisive victory at the Battle of Narasara, killing Shapur's brother, Narses.

However, in 1943, with Syd Howe and Mud Bruneteau scoring 20 goals apiece, Detroit won their third Cup by sweeping the Bruins.

However, the Oilers won 4 of the next 5 games to take the series.

However after the National Referendum that took place on the 5th of May in 2011, the proposition impulsed by the government of Mr. Correa won and now the Judiciary Council change its formation making a constitutional amendment.

However, both books went on to receive high acclaim and, in 1970, jointly won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, a major prize in children's literature.

However, in the UK, the eurosceptic United Kingdom Independence Party achieved second place in the elections, finishing ahead of the governing Labour Party, and the British National Party ( BNP ) won its first ever two MEPs.

However, Ríos Montt won this partial victory at an enormous cost in civilian deaths.

However, because he failed to achieve a fifty percent majority, he won a runoff election on December 28, defeating the center-left candidate Álvaro Colom.

However, he and his colleagues were denied title glory as Liverpool also won their final league game of the season at Chelsea.

However, since there was no effective opposition party, these issues were contested mainly within the coalition government, which won all but one seat in the first post-independence Malayan Parliament.

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However, England won the Test, and the one at Headingley, to win the series 2-1, Cronje finished the series as South Africa's top scorer with 401 runs at 66. 83.

However, post-debate polls were mixed on whether Gore or Quayle had won.

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However, in the European Teams Championship in Batumi, Georgia, also in January, she won the gold medal playing Board 2, scoring 6½ – 2½.

However, in 1835, Polk ran against Bell for Speaker again and won.

However, in the divisional round, the Jaguars fell to the then-undefeated New England Patriots ; the teams were tied at halftime, but the Patriots pulled ahead and won 31 – 20.

However, his iron rule of the House was broken, and Cannon lost the Speakership when the Democrats won a majority later that same year.

However, in the previous parliamentary elections in 2002, Tito's opponents won major victories, and in March 2003 he was ousted in a no-confidence vote ( having served the maximum three terms, he is barred by the constitution to run for another term ).

However, after Hitler won power, Gustav became enamoured with the Nazis ( Fritz Thyssen described him as " a super-Nazi ") to a degree his wife and subordinates found bizarre.