Heading into Saturday's game, the Lakers bench averaged an NBA-worst 21.3 points. Now Steve Blake, the team's leading scorer off the bench, is injured.For a team that's played only 14 games, the Lakers don't have much in reserve.
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January 14, 2012
Steve Blake has a costochaondral fracture (fracture of the cartilage that connects the rib to the sternum) and he'll miss three to four weeks. This is a tough blow to the Lakers bench and flow. Blake was shooting decently this season, about 51% eFG and the Lakers are already weak at the point. How will the Lakers rotation change without Blake?
Derek Fisher and rookie Andrew...
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December 28, 2011
The NBA lockout is old news now and the season is in full swing. Just a few weeks ago the shortened NBA free agency period put the league into a frenzy. In the middle of that frenzy were the Los Angeles Lakers. At the time it looked like the Lakers were going to land two all stars in Chris Paul and Dwight Howard. Supremacy would have remained with the Lakers for the greater part...
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January 16, 2012
“The reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.” – Kobe Bryant circa last week, er, Mark Twain
Ok Kobe – you’ve cleared it up for all of us (or at least the folks over at ESPN). You are not the 7th best player in the NBA. Now feel free to start passing the ball again to the most dominant twin towers in the NBA. If you decide not to, expect the following to happen:
Andrew...
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January 15, 2012
Saturday night’s NBA schedule featured the first of what looks to be an entertaining city series between the Lakers and their Los Angeles counterparts the Clippers. With the addition of Caron Butler, Chauncey Billups and of course point guard Chris Paul the much-improved Clippers were able to take round one of the 3-game season series [...]
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January 15, 2012
LOS ANGELES They're not exactly the new kids on the block, but the Los Angeles Clippers claimed a piece of downtown turf Saturday night.
They don't own LA. The town still belongs to the Lakers and Kobe Bryant, but the Clippers made it clear they're not pushovers anymore. Staples Center belongs to them, too, and they intend to protect it.
"We're doing what...
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January 15, 2012
Really Kobe? Really? I mean what does Kobe Bryant have to prove at this point in his career? I don’t know what point Kobe is trying to make but he has now scored over 40 points in three straight games this week. Sheesh! It’s not like we don’t already know that Kobe can score on anybody in the league when he feels like it but I guess he felt the need to remind us of his awesome...
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January 14, 2012
Kobe Bryant is, as they say, on fire.
For three straight games, Kobe Bryant has launched 31 shots towards the rim. For three straight games, enough of those 31 shots have fallen to give him at least 40 points. He has scored a total of 120 points, going 47-93 from the field, 5-13 from 3, and 31-34 from the line. The Lakers have won all three of those games.
The Lakers are riding...
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January 14, 2012
For the Los Angeles Lakers, when in doubt, give it to Kobe Bryant. For a team that struggled at the start of the season with many questions lingering over them, they surely have shut the critics up now after jolting towards a five-game win-streak already as they stand at 9-4.It was a tough start to the season, with people questioning if this Lakers team can even make the playoffs...
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January 15, 2012
After shooting three for 12 in a lackluster first half, he scores 21 points in the third quarter to finish with 42 in a 102-94 defeat.The Lakers appeared to be finished, and so did Kobe Bryant's streak of consecutive 40-point games.
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January 14, 2012
Photo by Harry How | Getty ImagesThe (9-4) Los Angeles Lakers are on the road, technically, (in their own building) to face the (5-3) Los Angeles Clippers. Thanks to David Stern, the Clippers have vastly improved although all of those naysayers that prematurely buried the Lakers have to re-evaluate those thoughts.Chris Paul was supposed to join Kobe Bryant and help the Lakers win...
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