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If you believe the return of Steve Nash and Pau Gasol is going to make everything all right for the Lakers, here's some bad news:
It won't.
There's too much wrong for even Nash, as gifted as he is, to fix what ails the Lakers. And there's certainly too much out of kilter for them to rest their hopes on the return of Gasol, who has been memorable so far this season only for his struggles at both ends of the floor while battling tendinitis in his knees.
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