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Jackson believes the Lakers got overly amped about last season's Christmas meeting with the Cleveland Cavaliers, leading to a painful loss that ended with fans throwing dozens of novelty foam hands onto the court. A year earlier, Los Angeles snapped the Boston Celtics' 19-game winning streak in a rematch of the 2008 NBA finals.
Jackson would prefer to see those historic moments on other calendar dates.
"When I was in the CBA, we had a commissioner who scheduled a Christmas Eve game. I had to call him up and say, 'That's the holy time,'" Jackson said. "You just have to keep reminding them that this is a special day."
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