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2006-05-08T20:26:00.000-07:00

The team is renowned for the fanbase of celebrities, such as musicians and movie stars who attend its games. Without question, many are present only during successful times for the team. During such times, near-court seats at an important Laker game are a desirable place for entertainment figures to "be seen". Each network broadcast, and many local broadcasts, of Laker home games invariably includes a few moments taken out to show on camera the various celebrities present at that particular game, and clearly many attendees are more interested in this aspect of their attendance than in the team or the game itself.

2006-04-16T16:41:00.000-07:00

lakersstrength4 new articles for Sunday, April 16, 2006Kobe Nets 43 and Lakers Clinch Playoffs (AP via Yahoo! News)
Helped by the absence of Steve Nash, Kobe Bryant put on his usual one-man offensive show and the Los Angeles Lakers easily clinched a playoff berth. Bryant made a late-season case for league MVP honors, scoring 43 points in a 109-89 rout of the Phoenix Suns on Sunday.

Bryant scores 43 as Lakers clinch postseason spot (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Kobe Bryant scored 27 of his 43 points in the first half as the Los Angeles Lakers clinched a playoff berth with a 109-89 victory over the short-handed Phoenix Suns.

Kobe Nets 43 and Lakers Clinch Playoffs (Washington Post)
Kobe Bryant makes a late-season case for league MVP honors, scoring 43 points and helping the Los Angeles Lakers clinch a playoff berth with a 109-89 rout of the Phoenix Suns on Sunday.

Kobe leads Lakers past Suns, into playoffs (Fox Sports)
No Steve Nash meant plenty of Kobe Bryant - under the basket, from long range and at the free throw line. Bryant made a late-season case for league MVP honors, scoring 43 points and helping the Los Angeles Lakers clinch a playoff berth with a 109-89 rout of the Phoenix Suns on Sunday. The Lakers are back in the postseason for the first time since losing the 2004 NBA Finals to Detroit.

Bryant leads Lakers to playoffs with win over Suns (The Sports Network)
Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - Kobe Bryant poured in 43 points, eight rebounds and five assists as the Lakers clinched a playoff spot by beating the Phoenix Suns, 109-89, at the Staples Center.

Kobe scores 43 as Lakers clinch playoff berth (MSNBC)
LOS ANGELES - Kobe Bryant scored 43 points and sat most of the fourth quarter as the Los Angeles Lakers routed the short-handed Phoenix Suns 109-89 on Sunday to clinch a playoff berth.

Lakers rout Suns (The Arizona Republic)
No Steve Nash meant plenty of Kobe Bryant - under the basket, from long range and at the free throw line. Bryant made a late-season case for league MVP honors, scoring 43 points and helping the Los Angeles Lakers clinch a playoff berth with a 109-89 rout of the Phoenix Suns.{b} Box

Kobe Nets 43 and Lakers Clinch Playoffs (The San Francisco Examiner)
LOS ANGELES - No Steve Nash meant plenty of Kobe Bryant - under the basket, from long range and at the free throw line. Bryant made a late-season case for league MVP honors, scoring 43 points and helping the Los Angeles Lakers clinch a playoff berth with a 109-89 rout of the Phoenix Suns on Sunday.

Kobe leads Lakers to playoffs; bettors to payday (Covers.com)
LOS ANGELES -- No Steve Nash meant plenty of Kobe Bryant - under the basket, from long range and at the free throw line. Bryant made a late-season case for league MVP honors, scoring 43 points and helping the Los Angeles Lakers ...

Lakers 109 Suns 89 (WOOD TV 8)
LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles Lakers have wrapped up a Western Conference playoff berth by blowing out the Phoenix Suns 109-to-89. Kobe Bryant scored 43 points for the Lakers,...

2006-04-10T22:17:00.000-07:00

lakersstrength4 new articles for Tuesday, April 11, 2006Battle of Los Angeles: Hot Lakers favored (Covers.com)
Oddsmakers are giving the Los Angeles Clippers the what-have-you-done-for-me-lately treatment in Sunday’s tilt with the Lakers. The Clips posted two convincing victories over their city rivals through three meetings this season, downing...

Bryant leads Lakers (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
LOS ANGELES - Kobe Bryant scored 17 of his 38 points in the fourth quarter, Lamar Odom had 23 points and 15 rebounds, and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the playoff-bound Los Angeles Clippers 100-83 on Sunday night.

Kobe, Lakers Beat Playoff-Bound Clippers (AP via Yahoo! News)
For the Los Angeles Lakers, it was a game of major importance. To the Los Angeles Clippers, it was anything but crucial. That's typical of late-season matchups between the crosstown rivals, but this was different than the norm since the Clippers are the ones with the playoff berth locked up and the Lakers are still battling to get there.

Kobe makes the Lakers a dangerous squad (The Sports Network)
(Sports Network) - The Los Angeles Lakers are a very dangerous team to have to play in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs. They are more than capable of sending one of the top seeds home early.

Lakers Quiet Playoff-Bound Clippers (NBA.com)
In the LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS, Ross Siler writes that "the Clippers can celebrate clinching their first playoff berth since 1997 all they want in the coming week. The Lakers weren't going to let them do it in front of their fans at Staples Center on Sunday night. It was time for order to be restored and the Lakers did just that in a 100-83 victory, with Kobe Bryant playing 47:21 minutes and Lamar

Lakers pull away from Clippers (Fox Sports)
Kobe Bryant scored 17 of his 38 points in the fourth quarter, Lamar Odom had 23 points and 15 rebounds, and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the playoff-bound Los Angeles Clippers 100-83 on Sunday night. Luke Walton added 13 points and seven rebounds for the Lakers (41-37), who outscored the Clippers 20-6 to finish the game in snapping a two-game losing streak and winning for the seventh time in 10

Bryant, Odom Carry Lakers Over Clippers (NBA.com)
Kobe Bryant scored 17 of his 38 points in the fourth quarter as the Los Angeles Lakers pulled away for a 100-83 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers.

Lakers beat Clippers, forge tie for 7th (The Arizona Republic)
For the Los Angeles Lakers, it was a game of major importance. To the Los Angeles Clippers, it was anything but crucial.

Lakers down Clippers in battle for LA (The Sports Network)
Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - Kobe Bryant poured in 38 points to lead the playoff-hopeful Lakers over the Clippers, 100-83, in the battle for Los Angeles at the Staples Center.

Bryant leads Lakers past Clippers (Honolulu Advertiser)
LOS ANGELES — For the Los Angeles Lakers, it was a game of major importance.

2006-04-02T21:10:00.000-07:00

lakersstrength4 new articles for Sunday, April 02, 2006Where Did It All Go Wrong?
However, something happened the next time I went to a Blazer game. Los Angeles came to town. I was already a fan of the Lakers, I'd written a biography of Kareem Abdul Jabbar in 4th grade. This was the Showtime Lakers. ...

A Hall of Fame (Sky) Hookup; Kareem Tutors Lakers' Bynum
As Los Angeles Lakers rookie Andrew Bynum strolled into the shower after a game in November, veteran guard Aaron McKie looked down at Bynum's feet and noticed that the 7-foot center was wearing calf-high tube socks. ...

Spurs End Lakers' Streak
I know the Los Angeles Lakers were fiendin' for that chemistry and balanced attack the Spurs displayed in their 96-85 triumph over the Lakers. "It is on us to stop penetration," Los Angeles star Kobe Bryant said. ...

NBA Double-Header: Pistons Defeat Bucks, Lakers Defeat Sonics ...
The 1987 Lakers championship acted as a strange redemption in my heart. Boston wasn't supposed to have a chance against Los Angeles, but after 6 tough games, the Lakers won the 1987 Finals. I went on to watch a lot more Lakers over the ...

Lakers 83, Clippers 101
Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson hangs his head on the bench during his team's 102-83 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers in an NBA basketball game Friday, Feb. 24, 2006, in Los Angeles. "We didn't match their energy and their effort ...

The Lakers made no trades
The Rockets have tried to complete a deal to move Anderson to the Heat, Cavaliers, Lakers, Nuggets or Magic. The Knicks also rebuffed efforts by the Los Angeles Lakers to obtain Channing Frye in a package built around Lamar Odom. ...

Lakers 105, New Orleans/Oklahoma City 94
[excerpt] Brown finished with 17 points, helping the Lakers beat the New Orleans Hornets 105-94 Sunday night for their fourth straight victory. The fifth-year center, who came to Los Angeles last August in a trade from Washington, ...

Bryant 43 points help Lakers win
Los Angeles Lakers have won five of their last six encounters and stayed 1 games in front of Sacramento for seventh in the Western Conference standings. Kobe claimed outloud: "When we have losses, we don't want them coming in bunches." ...

LA in Wooden's Words
In the almost 60 years I've been in Los Angeles, I've seen a lot of great baseball. Although I pull for all the local sports teams — the Lakers, Clippers, Angels — I've always been partial to the Dodgers. ...

Lakers 87, Sacramento 80
[excerpt] Kwame Brown has taken a lot of heat from the hometown fans and media in his first season with the Los Angeles Lakers. He heard only cheers Wednesday night. "Yeah, best all-around game, defense, rebounding and scoring," Brown ...

Lakers 92, Minnesota 89
[excerpt] Kobe Bryant pulled out another victory for the Los Angeles Lakers down the stretch. It wouldn't have been possible without Lamar Odom's contributions before that. Bryant scored 25 points, including a pair of layups in heavy ...

Lakers 105, Detroit 94
[excerpt] The Los Angeles Lakers played up to -- and beyond -- some formidable opposition. Kobe Bryant scored 40 points, Lamar Odom had 24 points and 10 assists, and the Lakers took a 105-94 victory Saturday night over the Detroit ...

Lakers 113, New Orleans/OKC 107
Kobe Bryant scored 18 of his 40 points in the fourth quarter as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the New Orleans Hornets 113-107 Wednesday night, disappointing the standing room crowd that put aside its Hurricane Katrina problems for a night ...

Kwame and Kobe Lead Lakers over Hornets
The Los Angeles Lakers' fans giving a standing ovation to Kwame Brown?! Definitely not the usual, more like Kobe Bryant and occasionally Lamar Odom. Brown's 17 points on flawless shooting sparked a 105-94 victory over the plummeting New ...

Wednesday Links
According to Gist, Sprewell made the mistake of waiting on the Los Angeles Lakers at a time when the Houston Rockets, Denver Nuggets, Detroit Pistons and Cleveland Cavaliers all were expressing interest in signing him. ...

Weekend News!
Lakers win fourth straight Kwame Brown's sore hamstring held up well enough to allow the Los Angeles Lakers to put some distance between themselves and one of their major threats to a playoff berth. Internet Sports Betting.

Lakers win their fourth straight

Kobe Bryant scored 30 points and Lamar Odom added 23 points to help the the Los Angeles Lakers top the New Orleans Hornets 105-94 for their fourth straight win.

The Lakers are eighth in the Western Conference playoff race, ...

Rumor Mill Churning - Who Will It Be?
I fail to see how a player that shoots like that would help one of the poorest outside shooting teams in the league, the Los Angeles Lakers. After Kobe, as a team, the Lakers shoot about 10% from downtown. But they keep hoisting them up ...

DOES KOBE BRYANT WANT TO BE JEWISH?
Plenty of interesting and shocking words have been spoken in the visitors' locker room at TD Banknorth Garden in Boston during the 2005/06 NBA season, but nothing compares to Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant telling a handful of ...

The Punch
The Punch is the story of two professional basketball players, Kermit Washington, then of the Los Angeles Lakers and Rudy Tomjonovich, from the Houston Rockets. On Dec 9, 1977, the two teams were playing each other, and there was a ...

Los Angeles Lakers

2006-02-22T15:28:00.000-08:00

The Lakers began in 1947 when Ben Berger and Morris Chalfen bought the Detroit Gems of the National Basketball League for $15,000 and relocated it to Minneapolis. As the Gems had by far the worst record in the NBL, the Lakers had the first pick in the 1947 Profesisonal Basketball League of America dispersal draft, which they used to select George Mikan, later to become the greatest center of his time. With Mikan, new coach John Kundla and an infusion of former University of Minnesota players, the Lakers won the NBL championship in their first season.