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ballerblogger.com - 6/10/2009
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J.A. Adande of ESPN.com: "This time, given a reprieve on the same play, given another chance on a night of several crunch-time mistakes, Bryant couldn’t even maintain possession. After the foul he stomped around, nearly stepping on Gasol, whom he never did offer a hand..."
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ballerblogger.com - 6/6/2009
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— ballerblogger.com — Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times: “If one side of the Lakers’ locker room is inhabited... by a grimace, the other side is occupied by grace. If Kobe Bryant is the Lakers’ heat, then Lamar Odom is their humanity, a simple guy fighting through life’s complexities with sad smiles and soft wisdom..." (more) The Fundamentals

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ballerblogger.com - 6/17/2009
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— ballerblogger.com — Ira Winderman of NBCSports.com: “The lesson of the finals was that with proper ball movement and proper... spacing, the type created by the Lakers’ triangle and the Magic’s 3-point threat offenses, the need for a traditional playmaker becomes marginalized..." (more) The Fundamentals

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ballerblogger.com - 6/9/2009
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— ballerblogger.com — Marc Stein of ESPN.com: "He’s flummoxed and angry that the ‘crazy things’ L.A.’s bigs can do, as... Dwight described them, are working so well in Howard’s first visit to the Finals, restricting Howard to a mere six baskets so far...” (more) The Fundamentals

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ballerblogger.com 7/18/2009 — J.A. Adande of ESPN.com: “Teams rarely win championships when their best players players are under 6-6. It hasn’t been done since Isiah Thomas’ ‘Bad Boy’ Pistons won back-to-back titles in 1989 and 1990. With Chris Paul under contract for the next three seasons and a player option for a fourth ..."
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ballerblogger.com 6/12/2009 — Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports: “They used to come to the brink of blows in empty gymnasiums as young Lakers, Derek Fisher and Kobe Bryant refusing to back down. When older teammates skipped road trip practices to rest tired legs, these two dragged themselves to the gym..."
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ballerblogger.com 6/25/2009 — Ken Berger of CBSSports.com: “The NBA Draft is Thursday night, and how strange it is that these two kids — neither with a college education, one born an ocean away and the other one having crossed that ocean for his apprenticeship — hold the keys to the whole thing...”
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