After going back and forth and taking turns controlling affairs, the Los Angeles Lakers and Sacramento Kings would face off in Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals.
This contest would be for all the marbles. With the New Jersey Nets, the Eastern Conference champs who had won a mere 52 games in the regular season, waiting in the wings, this seventh game was acknowledged by everyone as the world championship game.
It was held at Arco Arena in Sacramento, and normally, the home team in a Game 7 feels that it is the one game it is supposed to win. The home team in this type of situation is supposed to feel like it is the one game in the series that its opponent simply can’t or won’t win.
