It was happening again. You were sitting in the same chair, in the same room, watching the same television, and there were the same Lakers, the three-peating Lakers, getting all the calls down the stretch, apparently rescuing a game you thought was long over.
This was deja Laker blue. Los Angeles was creeping back into Game 3 of this series with Minnesota, the same way it crept into Game 6 last year in Los Angeles when it was playing the Sacramento Kings.
Different year. Different officiating crew.