You didn't get to see it because TNT was away on commercial break, but it turns out the Lakers' ring ceremony wasn't just confined to pregame.
Between the third and fourth quarters, Tex Winter -- the longtime Phil Jackson assistant and special consultant who's recovering from a May stroke -- was escorted to center court by four Laker Girls and received his championship ring (No. 10, like Jackson) from David Stern, receiving an extended standing ovation from the sellout Staples Center crowd.
"I think everybody's going to be really happy to see him tonight that knows him," Jackson said beforehand, "to have an opportunity to wish him well. It's been a really difficult three, four months, five months, since early May when he was here for the first two games of the playoffs versus Utah. So we're really happy Tex could make it down."