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After a game like tonight’s 97-91 loss to the Boston Celtics, after witnessing a 24-point lead gradually deteriorate into a six-point deficit, after watching the Los Angeles Lakers fall in Game 4 of the NBA Finals — a game that they, barring a heretofore unseen playoff miracle, had to win — the natural inclination is […]

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My younger brother, Josh — or J9, as he’s embarrassingly fond of calling himself — has never beaten me at anything.
I’m not saying I haven’t lost to him. In the most technical sense, I have. But that’s only because I didn’t play my game. If we’re playing hoops (which we never would, since I can […]

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It’s been a pretty good Western Conference semifinals thus far, though — and I know Utah fans will disagree — it seems like the Lakers are really losing games more than the Jazz are winning them. Give Utah credit, they’ve tied things up, but I have yet to feel like the Jazz can actually win […]

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We’re nearly through the first round of the NBA postseason, and there’s been a few intriguing turns thus far. The Lakers manhandled Denver; Dallas and Phoenix are done shockingly early; Boston and Detroit look vulnerable; and New Orleans looks for real — at least, after one round.
So without further delay, on to the videotape:

Are the […]

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One of the first feature pieces I ever wrote for the Washington Post was about Kobe Bryant. It was November 2002, the Lakers were coming off their third straight NBA title, and No. 8 – as he was then – was starting to emerge from the shadow of Shaquille O’Neal.
As part of the story, I […]

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Thank you, Doc Brown, for the DeLorean trip back to the 80s.
Lakers, 130, Phoenix, 124. Two hundred and fifty four points. In regulation.
Which, along with everything else that’s transpired west of the Mississippi in the past two weeks, begs the question:
Does anyone care what happens in the Eastern Conference anymore?
I mean, seriously, K-who? I […]

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Ever since Kobe Bryant’s “Trade Me, Don’t Trade Me” radio tirade this past summer, media outlets from here to Beijing have posed every imaginable question about No. 24 and his team for the present, the Los Angeles Lakers.
Is Kobe to blame for shaking the organization to its Staples Center core, or is Lakers owner Dr. […]

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For a few years now, I’ve had a running debate about Kobe Bryant with a friend of mine from New York. Everett is a basketball fanatic whose love of hoops trails only behind family and work, and he’s more knowledgeable about the game than a lot of people who get paid to cover it.
Our conversation […]

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Besides my two and a half year-old daughter and me, the house was empty, and I was supposed to be putting her to bed. But as I handed her a cup of milk and sat down on the couch, I figured I’d check the score of the Stanford-USC game one more time, just for the […]

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I was at David Beckham’s inaugural appearance for the LA Galaxy a few weeks back, and during that game, just minutes from its conclusion, Becks collided with Chelsea’s Steve Sidwell and went tumbling head over heels, grabbing at an already injured ankle. Beckham got up and walked it off, but you couldn’t help wondering if […]

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