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Los Angeles Lakers – Dwight Howard Shines in Return to Orlando
For once, the brightest spotlight regarding the Los Angeles Lakers wasn’t turned to Kobe Bryant but to another player, as the return to Orlando for the first time since getting traded (by request) for Dwight Howard stole the show, also because he was clearly the best player on the court.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Dwight Howard Gets the Reigns From Kobe Bryant
After an impressive run for the last 8 games, Kobe Bryant was bound to slow down at some point. Instead of letting it slow down the Los Angeles Lakers and their impressive run towards the postseason, it just gave room for Dwight Howard to shine in the kind of game not too long ago he would have faltered and failed.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant Impossibly Keeps Getting Better
From the depth of NBA despair, it seems the Los Angeles Lakers, as imperfect and flawed as before, are finding the recipe to make the dysfunctional formula work, with Steve Nash and Dwight Howard patching things up, while Kobe Bryant is playing like his life depends on it.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant Making the Impossible Happen
Disparity seems to be bringing out the best of the Los Angeles Lakers, or at least Kobe Bryant, pulling the team from the mouths of a huge defeat, pulling off every shot he has in his bag of tricks to come out as the winner after an improbable comeback, with hope of a playoff spot greater than ever.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Dwight Howard Still Not Comfortable
As long as Kobe Bryant is playing with the Los Angeles Lakers, Dwight Howard will be viewed as a not-to-serious, underachieving center, who doesn’t care about winning as much as the Lakers biggest star does. Fighting a losing battle against fan and media perception isn’t making this season easier for him.
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Most 50 Points NBA Games in the Last Decade
It’s been more than four years since the last time Kobe Bryant had a 50-point game, but there’s no one close to him when it comes to the art of scoring in volumes, being the only player with a double digit number of games over the last decade of these kind of scoring performances, followed by LeBron James and Allen Iverson.
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Oklahoma City Thunder – Russell Westbrook Shows his Unstoppable Mode
Before the game, Kobe Bryant talked about smacking Serge Ibaka. It turned out that talking about Ibaka and focusing on Kevin Durant wasn’t really in the focus of things. The Los Angeles Lakers couldn’t handle the Oklahoma City Thunder because Russell Westbrook was the next player to make a laughing stock of their perimeter and transition defense.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant is Clutch Again
It hasn’t been exactly the best of seasons for Kobe Bryant when it comes to proving his “clutchness”, but things are changing. He’s hitting his best form of the season at the perfect time, leading the Los Angeles Lakers to a .500 record for the first time since the final game of the previous calendar year.
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Kobe Bryant With a Huge Dunk on Josh Smith
There were a lot of special things Kobe Bryant did as the Los Angeles Lakers finally reached .500, beating the Atlanta Hawks 99-98, but dunking on the face of Josh Smith after being hounded by him on the possession has to be the most memorable of the night.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant Getting Closer to Playoffs
No chance Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers reach the postseason? Well, if they keep winning the games they should (against the teams below them) and stop folding every time they face some sort of challenge, than maybe being only two games behind the Houston Rockets will be easier to bridge than what it looks like.