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Lakers take a brief detour from home-heavy schedule

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:40:02 +0000

Traveling to play Golden State is a rare experience with 17 of their first 21 games at Staples Center. > Traveling to play Golden State is a rare experience with 17 of their first 21 games at Staples Center.

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Knicks show up late for work

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:18:19 +0000

If facing Kobe Bryant isn't bad enough, the Knicks showed up 55 minutes before tip-off for tonight's game against the Lakers at Staples Center. “Traffic jam,” Mike D'Antoni told reporters as he hustled into the visitor's locker room at 6:40. The team bus, which traveled from Santa Monica to downtown L.A. was caught in traffic on the 10 Freeway. Think of the Deegan Expressway after a Yankees game on Memorial Day Weekend…but only worse. It's hard to imagine the Knicks being ready to challenge the World Champions. D'Antoni decided not to hold a morning shoot-around. But now it turns out the team didn't get much of a pre-game workout either.

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Enthusiastic Curry ready for Lakers

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:23:39 +0000

LOS ANGELES -- Eddy Curry is so enthusiastic these days, the Knicks center volunteered to defend a certain Lakers guard tonight at Staples Center. "I'm so happy to be back, doesn't matter to me," Curry said. "I'll guard Kobe [Bryant]." Curry h...

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Clippers broadcasters suspended for Iran remarks

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:49:25 +0000

Clippers longtime play-by-play announcer Ralph Lawler and color analyst Michael Smith were suspended one game by the Fox Sports Prime Ticket cable network for their comments about Memphis center Hamed Haddadi. Lawler and Smith made their off-the-cuff comments about the Iranian-born center during Wednesday night's telecast from Memphis. The on-air banter offended a viewer who e-mailed Fox to complain. The duo did not work Friday's night telecast against the Denver Nuggets at Staples Center.

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Phil Jackson knows all about the circus

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:01:00 +0000

Before the Bulls tangled with the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night at Staples Center, someone in the L.A. media asked Lakers coach Phil Jackson if the so-called circus trip was around when he was the coach of the Bulls. Oh, yeah, there was the ice-skating trip and the circus trip, Jackson said. Two weeks around Thanksgiving the circus comes in, and then the ice-skating show comes in the spring.

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