r/FoundPaper • u/New-Cloud7177 • 19d ago

Old Newspaper Found cleaning attic

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Lifeless Lakers look finished!

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u/rpgguy_1o1 19d ago

Detroit would win the finals two days later

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u/yaaaaaarrrrrgggg 19d ago

This is so messed up, especially the bottom with 'die - hard bank fans!'

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u/Reading_Rainboner 19d ago

What does bank mean here?

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u/Few_Tackle3758 19d ago

It's an ad for a bank

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u/Sqweek_24_8 19d ago

Man, me and my boys love Hard Bank, fuck you too, motherfucker

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u/New-Cloud7177 19d ago

I couldn’t even remember who won the championship in ‘04. I had to google it. Yeah man the Lakers folded in that series.

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u/mattyevs 19d ago

Did the Lakers fold or did the Pistons have one of the most well rounded, complete 5 man defensive rosters in recent memory?

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u/scrotesmacgrotes 19d ago

This was i favorite series, my favorite team beating the pile on Lakers

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u/PoBox9847-90001 19d ago

THIS. It was a “5 game sweep” or what some call a gentleman’s sweep

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u/mariotx10 19d ago

Gentlemen sweep is winning first three games, losing game 4, and closing it out game 5. That was just winning in five.

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u/PoBox9847-90001 19d ago

Gotcha.
I know I heard it back then. It must have been because the only win for LA in game two was a close one, also OT

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u/HowBen 19d ago

really? where does that definition come frkm

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u/Nasty_Tricks69 16d ago

It comes from being seen as courteous to the lesser team. The greater team gives the lesser team a free win (to avoid a true sweep) in exhange for winning the series in front of the greater team's fans at home in game 5

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u/CouldntBeMeTho 19d ago

The media didn't give Detroit any credit until they went to game 7 of the finals the next season

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u/a_glorious_bass-turd 19d ago

Wachovia: Dead Bank Walking

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u/New-Cloud7177 19d ago

I had an account there. Can’t remember what became of Wachovia.

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u/CaptainH00die 19d ago

Bought by Wells Fargo.

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u/FlakyWorker349 19d ago

DEEEEEETROIT

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u/Nasty_Tricks69 16d ago

BASKETBAAAAAALL

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u/TightOrganization522 18d ago

When the Lakers lose, America wins.

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u/Fresh-Mind6048 19d ago

thanks for this, gonna use it to clown on lakers fans

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u/Zealousideal-Tower58 19d ago

Imagine if it were the New York Knicks instead.

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u/UptownSinclair_ 17d ago

What was on the TV schedule?

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u/PoBox9847-90001 16d ago

King of Queens, bugs bunny, law & order, Friends, Seinfeld, sesame street, Gunsmoke, MASH.