Game Four of the NBA championship series was a 99-91 victory for the L.A. Lakers over the Orlando Magic. It may have been one of Coach Phil Jackson’s finest moments in managing a game - and a series. Phil Jackson showed faith and trust in his players… and he was rewarded with [...]
Imagine that ever since you were a young teenager you were a better basketball player than your peers - and many kids older than yourself. You are a basketball prodigy in high school. People keep telling you how good you are. The professionals risk a draft pick to select you out of [...]
There are singular moments that give a glimpse beyond the public persona of a player. Game Three was high drama. If the Orlando Magic had lost the game, it would have continued a finals losing streak to seven games. It would have put them three games behind the L.A. Lakers, with almost [...]
Orlando Magic basketball fans are waiting for their team’s first NBA Finals win. It will be the first one… ever. The Orlando Magic have been the championship series previously. On that one occasion, it was a four game sweep by the Houston Rockets. So, it has been a long long [...]
It is a rare opportunity for any athlete to compete for a professional sports championship. The L.A. Lakers earned that opportunity for a second year in a row with a Game Six victory over the Denver Nuggets. Game Six in June of 2008 was Celtics 131 - Lakers 92. That was the [...]
The spectre of Shaquille O’Neal looms over the Los Angeles Lakers. It probably will for many years. It is still a recent memory for many current Lakers fans. For example, they can recall Shaquille O’Neal grabbing offensive rebounds, being battered by defenders and powering up for a slam dunks to clean up [...]
Usually, Kobe Bryant can score six field goals in a half. Sometimes, it is that many and more in a quarter. In Game Five, the Denver Nuggets contained Kobe Bryant for just six field goals and a total of twenty two points. Fortunately, for the L.A. Lakers, there was support and scoring [...]
The Denver Nuggets / Los Angeles Lakers playoff has become a best-of-three series. The first team to two wins advances to the NBA Championship. Game Five is in Los Angeles and, with a home loss and a Denver victory (in Denver) for Game Six, the season would be over for the Lakers. [...]
The L.A. Lakers really missed two opportunities in Denver. The first and most obvious squandered possibility was to take a decided advantage in the series with the Denver Nuggets. A Game Four victory would have meant returning to Los Angeles with a three games to one lead in the series and making it [...]
Even the staunchest Lakers fan must be befuddled. Who are these Lakers? They are certainly not the Lakers who won sixty five regular season games. These are the Lakers who had trouble eliminating a small but determined Houston squad. And now, in a playoff series with the Denver Nuggets, the Lakers [...]
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