{"id":6496,"date":"2011-05-09T15:30:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T19:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6496"},"modified":"2011-05-09T15:30:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T19:30:04","slug":"mavs-sweep-lakers-with-game-4-rout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6496","title":{"rendered":"Mavs Sweep Lakers With Game 4 Rout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS &#8211; <strong>Phil Jackson<\/strong> walked off the court with a tight smile, shaking hands and accepting congratulations like he has after so many series-ending playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>Never like this, though.<\/p>\n<p>His team didn&#8217;t win; they were crushed. Swept, too.<\/p>\n<p>And he wasn&#8217;t just heading to the offseason &#8211; he&#8217;s calling it a career, ending the most successful run by any coach in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jason Terry<\/strong> and the Dallas Mavericks ended <strong>Jackson&#8217;s<\/strong> tenure, and the Lakers&#8217; reign as two-time champions, with a 122-86 victory Sunday. After two tight finishes and another game that was relatively close, the Mavs turned this one into a rout in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Things got ugly early in the fourth quarter, with vicious, frustration-fueled cheap shots by<strong> Lamar Odom<\/strong> and <strong>Andrew Bynum<\/strong> getting them ejected 45 seconds apart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictured: Lakers star Kobe Bryant and coach Phil Jackson talk during Game 4 against the Mavericks on Sunday. Bryant and Jackson won five titles together in Los Angeles.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS &#8211; Phil Jackson walked off the court with a tight smile, shaking hands and accepting congratulations like he has after so many series-ending playoff games. Never like this, though. His team didn&#8217;t win; they were crushed. Swept, too. And he wasn&#8217;t just heading to the offseason &#8211; he&#8217;s calling it a career, ending the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}