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Conference semifinals.
• The game-winning shot came 43.7 seconds after Ginobili took an ill-advised 3 that appeared to cost the Spurs the game.
• "I went from wanting to trade him on the spot to wanting to cook breakfast for him tomorrow morning," Popovich said. "That's the truth. When I talk to him and say, 'Manu,' he goes, 'This is what I do.' That's what he's going to tell me. I stopped coaching him a long time ago."
• Ginobili's 3 capped an improbable comeback for the Spurs, who trailed by 16 points with 4 minutes left in regulation before going on an 18-2 run to close the fourth quarter and force overtime.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Tuesday, May 7, the 127th day of 2013. There are 238 days left in the year.
• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 7, 1763, Pontiac, chief of the Ottawa Indians, attempted to lead a sneak attack on British-held Fort Detroit, but was foiled because the British had been tipped off in advance. (The Ottawa Indians and other tribes then launched an all-out war with the British that came to be known as Pontiac's War.)
• On this date:
• In 1789, the first inaugural ball was held in New York in honor of President George Washington and his wife, Martha.
• In 1824, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, had its premiere in Vienna.
• In 1825, composer Antonio Salieri died in Vienna, Austria.
• In 1833, composer Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg, Germany.
• In 1840, composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk, Russia.
• In 1915, nearly 1,200 people died when a German torpedo sank the British liner RMS Lusitania off the Irish coast.
• In 1942, U.S. Army Gen. Jonathan Wainwright went on a Manila radio station to announce the Allied surrender of the Philippines to Japanese forces during World War II.
• In 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims (rams), France, ending its role in World War II.
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