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First Cup: Monday
ESPN.com - TrueHoop — ... Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times: "Twenty-one times, Kobe Bryant scored. Twenty-one times, he jabbed a 10-foot sword into a puffed-out chest. And basketball folks still have the nerve to call it a free throw? Not here. Not Sunday. Not Kobe. The final score in the first game of the Western Conference semifinals was 109-98, but the bottom line was the foul line. Bryant got there because he was one of the few Lakers comfortable driving through the lane and into its resident giants Carlos Boozer and Mehmet Okur. 'It's nice ... it's a chance to bang,' ...

Ballin’: Celtics Advance, Lakers Kinda Cruise
The Big Lead — ... For a fleeting moment in the fourth quarter, the Jazz had the defcit down to four or five, but Boozer had fouled out, and inexplicably, Utah had Kyle Korver curl off a screen and take a 14-footer jumper that clanged. Not sure about that call; we’d rather go down with Deron Williams (5-for-18) chucking than Korver. Kobe had 38. An eternal Jazz optimist might say: We dominated the glass (58-41), we won’t shoot 4-for-19 from three next time, and the Lakers won’t get 46 free throw attempts again. Think Utah will need to win game two to take the ...