LAKERS MISS MAILMAN ON SUNDAY NAMELESS UTAH SCARES MALONE-LESS L.A. LAKERS 94, UTAH 92.Byline: Howard Beck Staff Writer Two teams played without Karl Malone's services Sunday night Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was an NBC late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. - one forging a spunky spunk·y adj. spunk·i·er, spunk·i·est Informal Spirited; plucky. spunk  i·ly adv. new identity in his absence, the other happy to
ride his broad shoulders as much as possible and eager to see his
controversial elbows back on the court as soon as possible.
Malone left the Utah Jazz this summer, forcing a massive rebuilding project. He left the Lakers for one game to serve a league-mandated suspension for elbowing Dallas' Steve Nash Steven John Nash, OBC (born February 7, 1974),[1] is a Canadian professional basketball player who plays point guard for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nash was brought up in a family of sportsmen and he excelled in a variety of sports. in the mouth. Only one team really seemed to miss him. The Lakers built a 21-point lead, but rather than put the Jazz away - as they have done so many times this season - they were forced to scrap for a 94-92 victory in front of a concerned sellout crowd at Staples Center This article has multiple issues: * Its neutrality is disputed. * It may contain original research or unverifiable claims. * It does not cite any references or sources. . The Lakers get Malone back for Tuesday's game against the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Knicks, and they will be grateful for it. At a minimum, the Lakers missed his rebounding after allowing the Jazz a 26-15 advantage in the second half. Maybe, just maybe, they missed more than that, as a team of unidentifiable Adj. 1. unidentifiable - impossible to identify identifiable - capable of being identified players - many of them rookies - wiped out the huge deficit and took the lead in the final minute. ``We thought we were going to blow them out,'' said Bryon Russell Bryon Demetrise Russell (born December 31, 1970 in San Bernardino, California), is a former basketball player in the NBA. During a 12 season NBA career that spanned most of the 1990s and into 2005, he played for the Denver Nuggets, Washington Wizards and Los Angeles Lakers and was , and before he could opine on what difference Malone might have made, Jannero Pargo Jannero Pargo (born October 22, 1979 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American professional basketball player with the New Orleans Hornets.[1] He has also played for the Los Angeles Lakers, Toronto Raptors and the Chicago Bulls. interjected. ``Karl,'' Pargo commented, ``would have kicked some ass.'' Shaquille O'Neal scored 19 points, grabbed 15 rebounds and finished two assists shy of a triple-double. Kobe Bryant matched his point total, and the Lakers got 15 points apiece from Gary Payton and Slava Medvedenko, who started in Malone's place. Devean George hit what turned out to be the game-winning 3-pointer, with 24.9 seconds left, and finished with 16 points as the Lakers extended their winning streak to nine games. It all should have been enough for the rout, but things changed quickly in the fourth quarter thanks to a bunch of guys A Bunch of Guys (BOGs), or Group of Guys (GOGs) are terms used by counter-terrorism officials to refer to small, self-organizing terrorist cells.[1] BOGs typically have little to no contact with global terrorist groups like al Qaeda, so they independently plan and the Lakers would be hard- pressed to name. Mo Williams (rookie from Alabama), Aleksander Pavlovic (rookie from Serbia-Montenegro) and Ben Handlogten (30-year-old rookie from Western Michigan) keyed a 16-4 run that got the Jazz within five points early in the fourth. The Lakers led by nine when the no-name crew began chipping away again, launching a 13-2 run that gave Utah a 90-89 lead - its first of the game - with 55.3 seconds left. It came down to George at the end, a rare bit of glory for the oft-overlooked fifth wheel. ``He's been hitting shots,'' Payton said. ``I wasn't scared to throw it to him.'' Williams and Raja Bell each missed long jumpshots in the final frantic seconds. ``We kind of escaped with that one,'' said a displeased dis·please v. dis·pleased, dis·pleas·ing, dis·pleas·es v.tr. To cause annoyance or vexation to. v.intr. To cause annoyance or displeasure. coach Phil Jackson. By all rights, the Malone-less Lakers should have routed the Malone-less Jazz. That it turned into a fourth-quarter tossup was of little consolation to Utah coach Jerry Sloan. ``We had a bunch of guys that just came down to Christmas shop and view the scenes, I guess,'' Sloan said, ``because we didn't come to play.'' The Lakers' home-court winning streak is now 26 games, four shy of the franchise record set a half-century ago in Minneapolis. Not even the occasional loss of a Hall of Famer has slowed them. The Lakers won opening night without Bryant, won twice without O'Neal and now have survived Malone's brief stint in detention. Malone, presumably pre·sum·a·ble adj. That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster. , watched it all from his Newport Beach home and must have been touched by his teammates' tributes. O'Neal and Payton each modeled a No. 11 jersey during pregame warmups - O'Neal's stretched tight, Payton's worn like a gown. Howard Beck, (818)713-3613 howard.beck(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: Gary Payton drives to the basket during the second quarter of the Lakers' game against Utah on Sunday. Gus Ruelas/Staff Photographer Box: GAME RECAP |
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