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Los Angeles Lakers – En Route to Become the Worst in the NBA
The Cleveland Cavaliers don’t want to win in the future, like most of the NBA – they want their wins to come now, and hopefully getting them to the playoffs. Adding Luol Deng to the struggling squad was a good start, and playing a weak team like the Los Angeles Lakers didn’t hurt as well.
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Los Angeles Lakers – More Losing Leads to Pointing Fingers
The Los Angeles Lakers seem to be the only ones who didn’t receive the memo earlier this season about how they’re supposed to be bad. With a five game losing streak threatening to become something of the norm this season, the popular opinion right now among players, Mike D’Antoni and the front office is to blame Pau Gasol for not trying hard enough.
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Timberwolves vs Lakers – Things Look Better Without Kobe Bryant
It might not make too much sense, but the Los Angeles Lakers are a better team when Kobe Bryant isn’t playing, which showed in their 104-91 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves, getting big nights from Pau Gasol, Xavier Henry and Nick Young, while on the other end Kevin Love couldn’t make up for his teammates not being up for the challenge.
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Kobe Bryant & Pau Gasol Like in the Good Old Days
It’s a rough road back from recovery for Kobe Bryant, having the expected ups & downs in his offensive game since returning to the Los Angeles Lakers, straight into the lineup. It’s nice to have an old battle partner like Pau Gasol come back to life, if only for a moment, to help push the team through a tough road game.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant Wasn’t Going to Lose Forever
At some point, the rust was going to wear off Kobe Bryant, and along the same line, his first win this season since coming back from his injury was going to happen, sooner or later. It turned out to be after four games, beating the Charlotte Bobcats 88-85, putting up his best performance since returning.
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Kobe Bryant – Good or Bad For the Los Angeles Lakers?
By giving an injured, 35-year old Kobe Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers made an economic, financial driven decision, not one based on the desire to win NBA titles in the near future. However, it isn’t all negative, and his return to the courts after 8 months of an Achilles Tendon injury keeping him away, might not be the worst thing in the world.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Defense Isn’t a Rude Word
With the return of Kobe Bryant looming, the Los Angeles Lakers seem to be not only hitting the right kind of form to make him feel a lot more comfortable getting back, but finding out that playing some good defense, especially in the final moments of games they’re supposed to win, is something they can actually do.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Something Very Good is Going On
The skeptics (me among them) never expected the Los Angeles Lakers to do this well in the 2013-2014 NBA Season. One month and a week into it, they’re at a 9-8 record following their 106-102 win over the Detroit Pistons, as Mike D’Antoni seems to be getting the most of players like Wesley Johnson, Jordan Farmar, Nick Young and Shawne Williams, setting the ground as best as possible for the Kobe Bryant return.
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Lakers vs Nets – Jason Kidd is in So Much Trouble
It’s not enough that the Brooklyn Nets are missing their two best players while a rookie head coach, Jason Kidd doesn’t seem to know what he’s doing. During their loss to the Los Angeles Lakers, Kidd intentionally told one of his players to bump into him in order to cause a spill on the court and give him a few extra seconds to draw up a play. It didn’t help, and the Lakers still won 99-94, while Kidd probably landed himself into a heap of trouble.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Pau Gasol & Nick Young Have Changed For the Better
The biggest enemy the Los Angeles Lakers have this season is consistency, which usually separated the good from the bad. Right now, their on the higher side of their 2013-2014 roller-coaster, defined by Pau Gasol giving his best game so far and Nick Young continuing an excellent shooting stretch, leading their team to a 102-95 win over the Golden State Warriors.