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Lakers-Jazz Game 5 Live Blog
Lakers-Jazz Game 5 Live Blog
The Lakers will need to do a whole lot more than stand around and watch tonight if they want to get Game 5. The Jazz were able to have their way offensively for two games in Utah, so the Lakers defense will need to step up tonight as the series returns to Los Angeles. Oh yeah, and about Kobe Bryant and his back? He's going to play (of course), but it remains to be seen how much the injury ...
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Holding serve…
With Malice - An LA Lakers blog, news and opinions — ... From my perspective, it seemed that LA & Utah were competing to see who could throw the game away more completely. Fortunately for us Laker-fans, Utah prevailed in that battle. Both teams missed easy layups, and both teams had too many turnovers. Despite my prediction during the game over at Fanhouse’s live-blogging of the game that Kobe Bryant would go ‘off’ somewhere inside 9 minutes in the last quarter, Kobe didn’t shoot the ball once (tho he did get a few from the charity stripe). Maybe Kobe felt ‘off’ was quite literally meant. ...

Quick Thoughts 5/15
My Inner Fan — - Pau Gasol did not push off on Okur. I actually thought he did push off, and exclaimed as much over at Fanhouse's live blog, and was relieved the foul wasn't called, but this ...

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