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Kobe Bryant fought through all those Denver’s screens to set a tone for the Lakers’ defense.
Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol fought through all the questions about their focus and toughness.
Steve Blake fought through all those empty nights after being the main free-agent signing after the Lakers’ last NBA championship.
So now it remains possible for the Lakers to ascend to the top of the heap again after they survived Game 7 against the Denver Nuggets to advance to the Western Conference semifinals against the Oklahoma City Thunder, starting Monday night.
efore the playoffs, I predicted that the Lakers would beat the Nuggets in seven games. And so while I’m not entirely surprised that the younger, deeper Nuggets have a chance to tie the first-round series at three games... more »
In the NBA playoffs it's not necessarily about keeping players out of the paint or off the boards. It's about keeping them off the podium. When the postseason arrives and the numbers of media members increase, the key players... more »
A day after Bynum claimed that the Nuggets would probably "fold," it was Bynum's team that wound up bent at the waist and taking the hard breaths of humiliation. Believe it and weep. Despite having a chance to finish off the... more »
Undefendable. That's how George Karl described it, with a George Karl colloquial concoction, a perfect description of something that would normally take, like, 17 real words to describe. Undefendable. That's what Kobe... more »
The Lakers never dreamed it, but now they must live it, a worst-case scenario, a last-ditch situation, one game to save this misguided season against a Denver Nuggets team that should already be starting its summer. Shame... more »
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