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Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant & Dwight Howard Don’t Have to Like Each Other
Despite everything that’s happened, the Los Angeles Lakers are still gunning for the playoffs, not breaking up their team. For once, Kobe Bryant not thinking about passing worked well, while Dwight Howard with another impressive performance shows it was a wise choice to keep him.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Dwight Howard Takes Advantage of Emotional Night
Sports, somehow, are always filled with symbolism. So on the night the Los Angeles Lakers remembered Jerry Buss, they also had to play their historic rival, the Boston Celtics, and just so happened to get a very good game out of Dwight Howard, while all the trade talk around him just refuses to die down.
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Kobe Bryant is Still Shooting Way Too Much
How happy is Kobe Bryant right now? Probably not too much, with the whole Lakers missing the playoffs thing, not to mention the whole Dwight Howard issue – to trade or not to trade, with reports suggesting Bryant wouldn’t mind the man labeled as the future of the franchise being sent somewhere else.
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NBA Story Lines to Follow Until the Playoffs
With two months and somewhere between 30-25 games left to play for the teams, there’s plenty to look forward to in what’s left of the NBA season, including the MVP battle between Kevin Durant and LeBron James, the whole Los Angeles Lakers saga with time running against them, who emerges from the East to challenge the Miami Heat and more.
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Expect Kobe Bryant to Try and Take Over the All-Star
The least surprising outcome of the night, in my opinion Kobe Bryant setting another NBA All-Star game record, this time winning a fifth MVP, after forgetting this is also about superstars working together, not just enhancing their own brand name, and putting on a ball-hogging performance for generations to enjoy.
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Los Angeles Lakers – A Lesson in Who is Really Important
If Kobe Bryant couldn’t have played any worse and the Los Angeles Lakers, led in scoring by Dwight Howard once again, still came up with the win, what does that mean about who should be the focus of this offense? Not sure, but it does raise a few questions about the hierarchy on this team’s offense.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Steve Nash Giving Up on Dwight Howard
It’s one thing for Kobe Bryant to throw a teammate under the bus; that’s happened before. But for Steve Nash to go out of his way and make an example (once again) of Dwight Howard for the reason things aren’t going well for the Los Angeles Lakers? Things are bad.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Reaches a Whole New Level
While the Los Angeles Lakers keep trying to find a way and get passed the whole Kobe Bryant vs Dwight Howard feud, which believe it or not, is destroying this team’s last chance of making the NBA playoffs, the Miami Heat are relishing every chance they get to see Dwyane Wade partner with LeBron James for the kind of basketball that keeps getting better and better.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Easy Teams Make For Deceiving Wins
A fractured team, the Los Angeles Lakers are. Kobe Bryant doesn’t respect Dwight Howard, and drags the rest of the team with him. Howard is playing injured, but isn’t happy about the whole situation. And still, easy road games make for results that might a be a bit confusing and misleading.
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Boston Celtics – No Problem Beating a Broken Team
The media tried to turn up the hype before the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers first meeting of the season by trying to compare this game with the brighter days of the rivalry. Those days are long gone, with the Celtics running on fumes of a would-be dynasty while the Lakers look to be completely falling apart.