4-05-1998. Old one I repurposed, was 11 mins, now is 40 mins, A/V improvements. I put the older version on private, so you got no choice anyway. NBC game featuring Grant Hill and the gang. Excellent game by Brian Williams (Bison Dele) and Jerome Williams. Going by Walton n Snapper's claims, the Pistons w/ Collins that year had a bad habit of blowing leads. Del Harris wanted to win this one to the extent of setting and enforcing a curfew on the players. -- Lakers had a great 61-21 RS even w/ Shaq missing 20 games due to an ab strain. They won 16 of their last 18 games including this one and also a win vs Utah in Game 82. Del wanted them to be sharp going into the playoffs. I think they would've won 4-5 more games during Shaq's injury, they lost some gms that probably would've looked a lot different w/ Shaq considering the opponents. Without that injury, they were a 65-66 win team. This squad was loaded, which made their ugly sweep to Utah all the more disappointing. Pistons were 34-36 and then finished the season losing 9 of their last 12 including numerous 1-3 pt and OT losses. This game was during that stretch.