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Before Mike D'Antoni made his Lakers bench debut Tuesday night, he said that whatever happened against the Brooklyn Nets, he would have to take it sitting down because he was still in pain following recent knee-replacement surgery.
By the third quarter of the Lakers' 95-90 victory at Staples Center, D'Antoni was...

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