A Finals sweep would make the Lakers the only team in NBA history to rumble through the postseason undefeated. |
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Another concern is that Payton appeared to wear down with the Lakers in the postseason, and he had trouble staying with speedy opposing players. |
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The Lakers never needed a bail bondsman to get him out of jail at 3 in the morning. |
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In the West, everyone is waiting to see how much the gap between the Lakers and the rest of the field has narrowed. |
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Under Jackson, the Lakers have played more aggressively against screens, in the style of the rock-ribbed Eastern teams. |
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Instead of lulling at the galleria or taking in Lakers games, Ashley Peterson spends her free time spreading compassion for the homeless. |
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But home-court advantage still is up for grabs, with the Lakers, Kings, Spurs and Mavericks bunched at the top of the conference standings. |
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During the pregame of the Kings vs. Lakers game, TNT showed a taped segment with Kobe Bryant. |
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Now Davis and Phelps are trying to buy a luxury box at the Staples Center so they can watch Lakers games within arm's reach of a wet bar. |
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Las Vegas oddsmakers have listed the Lakers as a 2-1 shot to never lose a game next season. |
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Harper is signed through next season, but he might call it quits after this season, even if he helps the Lakers to a championship. |
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This slippery ball is in his Zen court, and if he double-dribbles, it could cost the Lakers a rifle. |
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A skinny white thug in a Lakers jersey lunged in my direction with a purpose. |
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The Lakers didn't even score a field goal for six of the final seven minutes, but it didn't matter cause they were always at the line. |
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He had six turnovers the next game, when the Lakers struggled to beat Cleveland, and Jackson gave him an earful during a timeout. |
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The Lakers are just one of 16 playoff teams trying to phase out the tribulations and tumults of the 82-game regular season. |
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After the Lakers play the Pacers, you don't have representatives of both teams out arguing that their side shellacked the opposition. |
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Unlike the Lakers, who gave the Suns a scare, the Clippers have the inside-outside combo to make Phoenix pay for double-teaming the post. |
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The Kings and the Lakers got involved in a scuffle following the actions of two of the biggest irritators. |
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Just two days after shellacking the Kings, the Lakers came back and whooped on the T-Wolves like they were a college team. |
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They have beaten Western goliaths, such as the Spurs and Lakers, but have lost to peewees, such as the Bulls and Grizzlies. |
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The Lakers won't be three-peating unless they come off cruise control for the conference finals. |
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After the Chicago game, the Lakers had trailed or been tied entering the fourth quarter seven times this season and had lost all seven games. |
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Sometimes it can seem like the Lakers have the magic touch in selecting players, but don't read too much into this. |
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David treated his sons to courtside tickets at the Los Angeles Lakers vs. Phoenix Suns game. |
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It was also great to see the Spurs take out the Lakers, blowing out Los Angeles in the final game of the series. |
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Fifteen points down with 10 minutes to go, a grandstand finish saw the Lakers scrape through by five points. |
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He presides over a sprawling media and sports empire that spans from the Lakers to The Chronicles of Narnia. |
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He watched Lakers forward Ron Artest deliver a blow to Barea that got Artest suspended for Friday's game. |
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Kidd gave the game ball to Scott to put alongside his championship rings with the Los Angeles Lakers. |
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The Lakers, it seemed, were left with just four men against the Cavs' five, like a hockey team playing shorthanded. |
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Maybe the best advice to beat the Lakers came from a hard-featured, elderly gentleman interviewed on the local news after his beloved Kings lost. |
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The Lakers have built the most impressive roster in the league. |
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Preceding Die Antwoord, Lakers star Ron Artest joined Kimmel, and demonstrated how to do a hoax, or an act, or a goof, badly. |
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Everyone knew that the Lakers would three-peat, but now it's official. |
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He got a black eye tussling under the boards with Shaquille O'Neal in a rousing win against the Lakers, snapping Los Angeles' 19-game winning streak. |
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It has been a long time between dominations for the Lakers, who once gave fans T-shirts proclaiming multi-title runs. |
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Several teams, including the Lakers and the Clippers, will make better offers. |
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His departure spurred Jordan's second retirement, Pippen's demand to be traded to a new team, and Rodman's decision to sign with the Lakers. |
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Ocean vessels and Lakers share the waterway with smaller pleasure craft, over the span of a 9.5 month navigation season. |
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The Dawson College Blues began their quest to the championship title with a 71-56 win over the Okanagan Lakers. |
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A missed three at the end of the game by a still bleeding bibby to give the Lakers the win. |
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An ode to Meryl Streep's brilliant selfie, taken at a Lakers game with 50 cent and Kobe Bryant. |
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Just four years ago, the average price for Clippers tickets on the secondary market was less than half that of the Lakers. |
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And the fact that Stevie can sign, seal, and deliver on the Lakers front court to the tune of a triple-double does not bode well for the yellow-bellies. |
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During the showtime era, Lakers games became a must-see event that attracted fans and celebrities alike. |
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Before April began, the Lakers had clinched home-court advantage over every team except the Blazers, and their magic number over Portland was down to three. |
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Lakers forward Karl Malone has been banged up and just generally not close to his old self, missing wide-open jumpers and struggling to get into any kind of rhythm. |
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Although the Lakers have rebounded well during the season's second half, the future of many of the players who've contributed to their three-peat is in doubt. |
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When the Kings and the Lakers met in the 2003 preseason, the drama picked up right where it left off. |
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Slice the Finals up any way you like, but the Nets, Pistons, Celtics, and the rest of the Eastern clodhoppers stand little or no chance of instilling fear in the Lakers. |
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Incredibly, with Bryant idling on the bench, the Lakers shook off their distractions and managed to thrash one of their supposed title rivals in their opening game. |
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Gasol isn't going anywhere after re-upping with the Lakers for another three years. |
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It is no fiction that Bryant continues to factionalize the Lakers, and this has nothing to do with the criminal charges he faces. |
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Grant's contract expires with the Lakers in a couple of weeks and The Goggled One's immediate future is blurrier than his vision ever was. |
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It's been suggested that the Lakers should make Parker pay for his drives in the lane with a body check or two. |
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California's strong brand in China everyone knows where Hollywood is, and the Lakers are fervently followed across the country—leave it well placed to take advantage. |
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The home of the Lakers, Clippers and Kings will host events in bike stunt, skateboard, moto X and aggressive in-line skate. |
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Yao suffered a hairline fracture of the tarsal navicular bone late in a May 8 playoff game against the Los Angeles Lakers. |
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The Lakers, 15-6 when Lamar Odom got injured, are a mess in the frontcourt now that Kwame Brown is hurt, too. |
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The executive of the Minneapolis Lakers worked out a trade during the 1955-56 season. |
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One of the most frequently asked questions about the Lakers has to deal with Kobe Bryant and how he has changed as a person. |
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What made Wednesday worse was that the Lakers couldn't find a player to hit a shot with the Pacers double-teaming Bryant all night. |
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The Lakers also are hoping to finish their front-loaded schedule of home games on a positive note. |
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The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant, Obamaa said, resorting to an uncharacteristically flip analogy. |
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The Los Angeles Lakers hope the preseason is no indication of their 2012-13 campaign. |
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Professional hockey got its start in Houghton, when the Portage Lakers were formed. |
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The Los Angeles Lakers added journeyman forward Bob McAdoo to their roster in hopes that he could help them win a title. |
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Contributing 29 points in two three set victories, Megan has proven to be a competitive force in leading the Lakers to a 2-0 finish thus far in regular season play. |
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The Lakers, their far better-loved crosstown rivals, are suffering through a difficult rebuilding phase, whereas the Clippers finished with the league's third-best record this year. |
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The Lakers tried to free Bryant from having to play in the backcourt and direct the offense. |
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Historically, the Lakers have beaten up on the Clippers more than any other team. |
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By falling five games below the Lakers and Denver for the final playoff spot in the West, the Clippers are all but mathematically kaput. |
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So maybe those guys in Lakers jerseys are in fact a JV team. |
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The 1972 Lakers won 69 games with two shooting guards. |
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I'm somewhat surprised, the way they've closed games off,'' Lakers coach Phil Jackson said of the Spurs. |
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Wafer left Florida State after only two seasons and was taken by the Lakers in the second round of June's NBA Draft. |
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The Los Angeles Lakers player, Bryant, tore his rotator cuff in January although Arum did not clarify whether that was the injury he was referring to. |
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The Lakers fell behind by double digits early in the second half, and the frustration began to spill out. |
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The Suns present an entirely different scenario than the Lakers would have and perhaps more difficult matchups. |
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Will the 2007-08 Lakers really be remembered as the most pathetic, uncaring, gutless losers ever to slime the hardwood? |
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A reminder of what could have been for the Lakers if the two superstars had just put the wah-wahs behind them. |
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Attendance at Staples Center, home of the Los Angeles Lakers and Kings, was basically unaffected, said Brenda Tinnen, an events and guest services executive. |
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Last week, his customers included a man buying a Lakers baby jumper for his child and another patron who bought a license plate frame for his Lakers-gold Porsche. |
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Unwhole for 11 games, miles away from championship form, cranky over a single blemish on the record, the Lakers soon will call up reinforcements they arguably don't need. |
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Of more immediate concern will be O'Neal's state of mind, and the state of his achy feet as the Lakers play their final nine games leading into the All-Star break. |
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For parting gifts, Sacramento gave Kobe Bryant a four-day tummyache, Shaquille O'Neal a foul mood and the rest of the Lakers a diminished capacity to hear. |
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Jack Nicholson hasn't jumped to the Clippers yet, but the Clippers are outdrawing the Lakers, averaging 19,290 fans compared to 18,997 in the same arena. |
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Bryant has only missed two games this season, both back-to-back last month, and the Lakers spilt those games against West bottom feeders Phoenix and Sacramento. |
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I think it'll still be watchable, decent basketball,'' Lakers coach Del Harris had said before the game, not wanting to be accused of overhyping the product. |
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