Quick Hits: Laker mojo is strong medicine

 
The Opening Pitch: It is very possible that the Spurs used up all of their road mojo t... [link]

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Lakers Down 20, Catch Spurs 89-85

Lakers show they can dance with the big boys....
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Postcards From LA, Vol. 11: One Lakers Fan Tracks His Team Through the NBA Playoffs

This is why we watch. When Tim Duncan made a 7-foot hook shot to put the defending champions up by 20 (65-45) with just under 6 minutes to go in the 3rd quarter, all looked lost: the game, the series, and the Lakers season. I felt sick to my stomach. There was no way, no way, that they could possibly squander such a commanding advantage, right? Cue Kobe Bean Bryant.
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Laker Fans Clean Up San Antonio Trash After Game

San Antonio Haterz! That better not be a Ginobili jersey Go ahead, hate Lakers’ fan all you want. But after finding these photos from last night’s game one celebration, you can’t accuse the fans of being lazy, welfare ...
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San Antonio vs. Los Angeles - Recap - May 21, 2008

Kobe scores 25 in second half as Lakers shock Spurs with rally LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers waited until the third quarter to get going. Once they did, the San Antonio Spurs couldn't stop them. And the defending NBA ...
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Bryant Single-Handedly Humiliates the Spurs

I know the Spurs were stuck in an airplane at some point, and just coming off a seven-game series. But dang, that was embarrassing. Up by 20 on the road, the Spurs plain shut off. And what's more, Kobe was just then starting to go to work. They knew ...
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He took it The Spurs apologists are quick to make excuses for their beloved defending champions blowing a 65-45 lead with less than six minutes to play in the third quarter. They say that Tony Parker disappeared during the second half, that Ime Udoka ...
SidelineShow.com-SportsTalk RadioA Hollywood Beginning - Lakers 1-0
Kobe Bryant may not have started the game the way his teammates would have liked it but by the end of the fourth it all came together. In Game 1 of the Western Finals the Lakers showed the Spurs just how we do it L.A. with a 89-85 victory. Bryant ...
With LeatherWRAP-UP FROM THE PAP UP
Note: I don't know what that headline means, but it's got a gynecological term in there, so let's lead with the Spurs. NBA -- Down by 20 halfway into the third quarter, the Lakers looked cooked against San Antonio.  Then LA was all, "Hey ...
Indy Cornrows: Front Page PostsDid Kobe Bryant Toy with the Spurs?
Maybe the MVP award emboldened Kobe Bryant to take his game to yet another level. I mean, what else can explain the casual manner in which he hung around for  two and a half quarters appearing to give in to the champion San Antonio Spurs ...
The Globe and Mail - From DeepA three-on-five series
I didn't get a prediction up before Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals, and you'll just have to trust me that I was going to pick Los Angeles. (I picked LA to make the finals in paper-and-ink before the playoffs started, if you doubt ...
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The San Antonio Spurs surely would've taken any scenario in which Kobe Bryant would score just two points in the first half and they would have a 20-point lead in the second half. Put those two together and you can generally scratch off one in the win ...