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Show LAKERS THUMP dun' SPURS (areem Abdul-Jabbar red 32 points and ibbed ten rebounds and rm Nixon added a eer playoff high 31 ts to guide the Los geles Lakers to a 123 to win over the San tonio Spurs, Sunday in i opening game of the astern Conference ampionship Series. (C'he Lakers went ahead stay by outscoring the rsl6-5 in the final 3: 55 Jie first half to turn a 17 deficit into a 63-53 vantage at the emission. Nixon had of those points and dul-Jabbar and ynaal Wilkes added five ece. The Spurs got as . t'e as three points at 80-midway 80-midway through the ! d quarter before the jeers ran off eight ) light points to give jn an 11-point lead. ' an Antonio put in some i kets to cut the score to ;5 points at 118-113 with )3 to go. It was 123-117 :n San Antonio's Mike ,itz missed an I pposed layup with 40 jonds left. The Lakers it1 scored the game's five points. Vjj?00 McAdoo came off V flbench to add 21 points Ithe Lakers. Wilkes Yihedat 17 and Earvin jgic" Johnson had 13 its, 16 rebounds and 14 sts. Gervin finished 1 34 points. ' Three horses won Triple Crown" in the ICG Can you name "v n, and the years they - Secretariat (1973) tie Slew (1977) and ed (1978). |