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Lakers Beat Celtics at Old Game

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There are a number of ways beyond looking at a calendar that you can tell this is not the 1980s. You can drive by a gas pump or have a word with Madonna’s plastic surgeon.

Or you could have been at the Garden last night to watch the role reversal renewal of a roundball rivalry.

The Lakers are now the ones looking to slug it out and pound you in the paint. And if the Celtics [team stats] haven’t gone completely Showtime, well, they’d certainly rather run than fight.

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