re: How would the 2002 Kings rank if Vlade didn’t tip the ball to Horry?

What about the 2003 Kings that lost to Dallas in the second round, after Chris Webber went down with a knee injury. They would have faced San Antonio in the WC Finals and would have faced the Nets in the Finals.

A YouTube video about how the injury affected the SacKings

Until Webber got hurt that was the most frenetic playoff game the Mavs had played in the teams history. The Mavs had a 44-40 lead at the end of the 1st quarter.. In that quarter Peja had 17 and Webber had 15. Dirk had 18 and Adrian Griffin had 8.

The Mavs held the Kings to 21 in the 2nd quarter while scoring 39. Webber had 6 in the second for the Kings. Nash had ten and Nick Van Exel came off the bench for Dallas with 15 in the 2nd period.

That's the only 83 point half I've ever worked. I doubt there had been many of those in the playoffs up to 2003. Only 83-61 half I've covered too. It's the only game where I needed more than one of my scoring sheets for both teams. The sheets were just blank Excel grids where I kept up with scoring, points, fouls,etc. A normal quarter took up around 3/4's of the page. At the end of the game I usually had four partial sheets.

Webber had 31 points when he got hurt with under four minutes in the 3rd quarter. At the end of the game Peja had 24. Jim Jackson, an ex-Mav had 12 off the bench for the Kings.

With Dallas giving their starters some rest, Van Exel went off in the 2nd half for 17 points. Michael Finley and Dirk finished the game with 24 apiece. Nash had 19 and Adrian Griffin had 15, and Van Exel finished with 36.

Game 2, May 8, 2003 stats on basketball sports reference.com