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Lakers newest star, Steve Nash gets a warm welcome from some fans on a Los Angeles highway today. Fans on their way to a game recognized the athlete in the next car “Isn’t that Steve Nash?” After realizing they were just inches from Nash, they did what they deemed to be the polite thing. They passed a cold […]
Lining up a free throw against the Lakers, Walt Frazier is weighing the basketball in his hands, letting things simmer just a minute. He is about to let go and he hears a voice, loud and gleeful, come right out of the stands clear across to him: “Hey, man—you're the fourth-best guard in the league right now, and you ain 't movin' up 'till somebody dies!” Frazier blows the shot right there
There’s normally a protocol in these games when the Lakers want a game-winning basket. Phone timeout. Draw a play that may get Kobe Bryant open. And allow the Black Mamba consider treatment of your rest. The identical logic could use towards the NBA All-Star sport. But there was one slight problem when the Western Conference […]
Following a while all of them strung with each other. Former Lakers ahead James Worthy appeared in seven consecutive All-Star games from 1986 to 1992, and over time they served as nothing more than a stress-free weekend and an opportunity to hang out together with the league’s elite. Unsurprisingly, even so, you will find two […]
The Los Angeles Lakers secured their 15th National Basketball Association (NBA) title at the Amway Arena on Sunday after a 99-86 win over Orlando Magic in Game Five gave a 4-1 victory in the best-of-seven finals. Leading light, Kobe Bryant, capped a fantastic finals weighing in with 30 points, five assists and six rebounds to pick up the personal accolade of Most Valuable Player (MVP) for the first time in his career en route to the win.
Kobe Bryant inspired the Los Angeles Lakers to a dominant 100-75 home win over Orlando Magic in the first game of the 2009 NBA Finals. The All-Star guard contributed 40 points, nine rebounds and eight assists to power his side to victory in front of a sell out crowd at the Staples Center in his sixth appearance in the finals. Firepower was also provided by Pau Gasol, who chipped in with 16 points, and Lamar Odom who scored 11 points and grabbed 14 rebounds for the Lakers as the Magic were left adrift.
The Orlando Magic toppled the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday night to claim a spot in the NBA finals championship series for the first time in 14 years. The Magic’s 103-90 home win in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals earned the team a trip to Los Angeles to face the Lakers. Orlando made it to the title round in 1995, one year before Shaquille O’Neal left for Los Angeles.