Lakers' Dwight Howard braces for unhappy return to Orlando

Los Angeles

The Los Angeles Lakers just sent out a tweet of their team breaking from the huddle after cheering "1, 2, 3 championship!" Laker fans are retweeting the hell out of it. Avid and casual basketball fans alike should be heartened "I guess our brand-new arena wasn't enough and I'm like, 'Forget you and the Lakers [...]

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Lakers' Dwight Howard braces for unhappy return to Orlando

Los Angeles

Behind a big second half surge exploiting some bad pick and roll defense, the Lakers wound up with a comfortable lead and victory as the Bulls struggled to score. LOS ANGELES _ The media dining room at Staples Center erupted in a collective roar early Friday night when those affiliated with the Lakers watched on [...]

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Lakers 8th in West; Heat Win 18th Straight

New York Tim

The Lakers are in the playoff picture thanks to a win over the Bulls, while the Heat smacked around the Pacers for their 18th win in a row. The Lakers controlled the game on both ends of the floor and defeated the Chicago Bulls. Los Angeles now slides into the eighth seed in the playoffs. [...]

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Lakers 8th in West; Heat Win 18th Straight

New York Tim

LOS ANGELES — Dwight Howard committed a cardinal sin against the unofficial professional sports code of conduct Sunday by unabashedly looking past his opponent in the Chicago Bulls. Howard was at his locker room before the Bulls game with his iPad EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — It was four days in a season that at times [...]

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Preview: Lakers vs. Chicago Bulls

Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES _ The media dining room at Staples Center erupted in a collective roar early Friday night when those affiliated with the Lakers watched on TV as Chicago's Marco Belinelli sank a clutch three-pointer that wound Reese Witherspoon claps her hands while watching the Los Angeles Lakers play basketball against the Toronto Raptors at [...]

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Preview: Lakers at Suns

Los Angeles

The Hornets made things interesting late in the fourth quarter, but the Lakers managed to finish the job at home for one key reason. Hint: it's not who or what you think. It wasn't the 1960s or the 1980s, when they or Philadelphia were the favorites almost every year, but both were good enough and [...]

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Preview: Lakers at Suns

Los Angeles

The Los Angeles Lakers beat the New Orleans Hornets last night, 111-to-106. It was a normally forgettable late January game. But every victory means something to a Lakers team suffering through a dreadful first half of the season. Last night's win was Fran Blinebury: The temptation is to say yes, because it's what we've expected [...]

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Lakers in the Playoffs? Don't Laugh

Wall Street

There are no great games on Tuesday night, but eyes from around the league will be watching as the Los Angeles Lakers try once again to turn things around, as they have a winnable game against the New Orleans Hornets. Back on December 5th, the Lakers came into New Orleans and handled the Hornets rather [...]

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Lakers' stars on the same page

Los Angeles

The Lakers started strong with an immediate triple from Metta World Peace, and they were hoping that momentum would carry them for the rest of the quarter. They looked decent defensively, but a lot of that was helped by the The Los Angeles Lakers have won two in a row, and a reasonable amount of [...]

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Hornets-Lakers Preview

Yahoo! Sport

Instead, the Lakers kept at the calculated approach they had in the previous three and a half quarters. There would be no desperation threes, there would be no forced Kobe jump shots, there would be no more easy layups for Update: The only trouble the Lakers had in New Orleans last month came in the [...]

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