LAKERS ARE FINISHED IN A SNAP BLAZERS LATEST TO END LOSING SKID VS. L.A. PORTLAND 99, LAKERS 93.Byline: Ross Siler Staff Writer PORTLAND, Ore. - If Kobe Bryant Kobe Bean Bryant (born July 23 1978) is an American All-Star shooting guard in the National Basketball Association (NBA) who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers. wasn't feeling well before Wednesday's game, when he let out what might have been the world's longest yawn in the locker room, he had to be downright ill by the end of the night at the Rose Garden. With Bryant suffering from a sinus infection, the Lakers were unable to pick each other up on offense and defense and gave away yet another game in a season full of them, falling 99-93 to the Portland Trail Blazers The Portland Trail Blazers are a professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. They play in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The franchise, based in Portland throughout its existence, entered the league in 1970 and has won the NBA Championship once, in 1977. . Coming off a 2-11 month, the Blazers snapped a six-game losing streak with Wednesday's victory, but the Lakers have become a broken record in that respect. In the past month, the Lakers have been the team that Indiana (six games), Charlotte (13 games), Memphis (five games) and the Clippers (five games) all have beaten to end long losing streaks. It was the latest example, Lakers coach Phil Jackson
Philip Douglas "Phil" Jackson (born September 17, 1945 in Deer Lodge, Montana) is the current coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, an American professional basketball team. said afterward, of allowing teams to ``make games out of things that should be ours.'' The Lakers (29-29) fell back to .500 with the loss but still lead Sacramento and Utah by 1 1/2 games for the Western Conference's eighth and final playoff spot. Bryant missed nine of 11 shots to start the game, spiking one would-be reverse dunk off the rim, but wound up having to carry the Lakers all the same. He scored 19 of the Lakers' 23 points in the third quarter - Lamar Odom Lamar Joseph Odom (born November 6 1979, in South Jamaica, Queens, New York) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays power forward (also plays both forward spots and is a "point-forward") for the National Basketball Association's Los Angeles Lakers. and Smush Parker William Henry "Smush" Parker (born June 1 1981, in New York, New York) is an American professional basketball player, currently with the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association.[1] Parker played shooting guard in college, but moved to point guard in the NBA. each had a basket - and finished with 35 for the game. Bryant's body was achy all night and his voice was raspy rasp·y adj. rasp·i·er, rasp·i·est Rough; grating. Adj. 1. raspy - unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice" grating, rasping, gravelly, scratchy, rough afterward. Even though the Lakers trailed by as many as 16 points in the second half, the game was decided in the final three minutes "Three Minutes" is the 46th episode of Lost. It is the twenty-second episode of the second season. The episode was directed by Stephen Williams, and written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. It first aired on May 17, 2006 on ABC. , to nobody's surprise. The Lakers and Blazers have played the most close games of any teams in the NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= . All the Lakers needed late was a stop, which they couldn't get. Bryant was called for a foul trying to slap the ball out of Steve Blake's hands on a drive with 1:24 left. Blake (19 points) made both free throws. After Odom scored at the other end, Portland again went to Blake. Brian Skinner set a pick at the top of the floor on Bryant, and Blake came around it. But Brian Cook, who was guarding Skinner, gave Blake all the space he needed to bury a 21-footer with 52.9 seconds remaining and keep Portland in front 96-91. ``Just slow reacting to it,'' Cook said. ``He made a big shot at a critical moment. You have to take your hat off to him.'' Ross Siler, (818) 713-3610 ross.siler(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): box Box: STORY LINES |
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