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Even with unhinged, decrepit mascot Jack Nicholson making the trip to Detroit, the Lakers were still unable to keep the Finals alive for one more game, putting off our city's championship riot dreams for at least another year. The game wasn't pretty (after all, this was Detroit), but a reader pinpoints the moment she knew it was really, really over for the purple and gold:

You know a Laker game is going bad when commentator Al Michaels has such a hard time finding an analogy to describe Phil Jackson that he says “Y’know, he’s like Enya." I thought I heard wrong but then he started quoting lyrics!!!!! Get someone with TiVo to quote it for you, it was 4th quarter around the 10 to 8 minutes left mark. PAINFUL .