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What Can Lakers Expect From World Peace?

Kelly Dwyer, Ball Don't Lie

Kobe's Task: Light Fires Under Big Men

Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports

Lakers Fail to Match Kobe's Drive

Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times

Aiming for greatness, the Nuggets need more firepower if they want to shoot for the NBA championship. Here's the target: Austin Rivers is a 19-year-old shooting guard from a bas...(full article)

The NBA is 100 percent wrong for giving Metta World Peace a chance to beat the Nuggets. A basketball player guilty of brutish behavior should not be given the opportunity to ste...(full article)

In April, Los Angeles Lakers forward Metta World Peace averaged 14.1 points on 47 percent shooting, tossing in over four rebounds a game despite playing just 32 minutes a contest...(full article)

The bus purred, waiting to whisk these Los Angeles Lakers away to a most uncertain, most uneasy Game 7, and everyone waited for Kobe Bryant to climb aboard. He walked slowly, sho...(full article)

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 s...(full article)

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