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Lakers Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)
13 Mar 2010 at 2:55am
If Lamar Odom gets an NBA suspension at some point before this season ends, you can trace it back to early March. Odom said after the Lakers had to squeak out a home victory over Toronto on Tuesday night that he's tired of seeing opponents come so hard at the Lakers without the Lakers fighting back hard enough. "We've got to hit first and keep hittin'," Odom said. Odom expressed chagrin that the Lakers let Orlando's Matt Barnes come at them so aggressively in their loss Sunday at Amway Arena. Odom suggested he might have to do something against the official rules and maybe be suspended for it to make a point. But Odom was pleased to see the team play more physically in their victory Friday night in Phoenix. "Win by any means," Odom said. The...
Phoenix fumes as Lakers down Suns (AP)
12 Mar 2010 at 10:40pm
Phoenix coach Alvin Gentry was ejected and had to be restrained by his assistants as the Suns were beaten 102-96 by the Los Angeles Lakers in Friday's NBA action. Gentry was ejected by referee Mike Callahan after arguing that Pau Gasol should have been called for a flagrant foul on Lou Amundson's drive to the basket with 5:06 to play.
Lakers used balanced effort to beat Suns 102-96 (AP)
12 Mar 2010 at 10:10pm
There was no one-man show for the Los Angeles Lakers this time. Kobe Bryant got plenty of help in an intense 102-96 victory over the Phoenix Suns on Friday night. All five Lakers starters scored at least 15, led by Bryant's 20 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists -- along with seven turnovers. The Suns rallied from 15 down in the second half and led briefly early in the fourth quarter before...
Ten draft prospects who won't be dancing (Yahoo! Sports)
12 Mar 2010 at 2:43pm
Not every draft prospect makes the NCAA tourney. Here are 10 who could hear their names called by David Stern.
Lakers struggling to escape late-season funk (AP)
10 Mar 2010 at 2:48pm
The euphoria from Kobe Bryant's latest game-winning shot didn't last much longer than it took for the celebratory streamers to fall from the Staples Center roof onto the Toronto Raptors' heads. Despite their 47-18 record and their perch atop the Western Conference standings, Bryant and his teammates say the Los Angeles Lakers are in their worst funk of the season.
Bogut has 25 points, Bucks knock off another marquee team with 86-84 win over...
10 Mar 2010 at 12:08am
Glen Davis tried to use his considerable size advantage to intimidate Milwaukee rookie point guard Brandon Jennings.
Lakers snap 3-game skid on Bryant's late jumper (AP)
9 Mar 2010 at 11:38pm
Kobe Bryant never gets tired of being the Lakers' closer. And though he savored the chance to stop Los Angeles' longest losing streak in nearly three years with yet another flawless game-winning shot, Bryant is hoping he won't have to bail out the Lakers quite so frequently in the final weeks before they defend their title.
Lakers snap 3-game skid on Bryant's late jumper, beat Raptors 109-107 (The Ca...
9 Mar 2010 at 10:51pm
LOS ANGELES - Kobe Bryant hit a 17-foot fallaway jumper with 1.9 seconds left, and the Los Angeles Lakers rallied in the fourth quarter to snap their three-game losing streak with a 109-107 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday night.
Kobe Bryant: Lakers 'edgy and upset' (Yahoo! Sports)
9 Mar 2010 at 4:26am
The Los Angeles Lakers just lost three games in a row, the first such streak of the last two seasons, and Kobe...
Bobcats hiring James Worthy? (Yahoo! Sports)
9 Mar 2010 at 3:42am
James Worthy and Michael Jordan were teammates at the University of North Carolina and now it's looking like...

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