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It's one thing to be confident as a team in your abilities, but if Sunday night showed the Denver Nuggets anything, it's that confidence needs to result in baskets, not empty smiles or gestures. Denver failed to make it three in a row over the Los Angeles Lakers in a physical, hard fought contest the Lakers won due to their dedicated effort on the defensive end, especially in the fourth quarter. The ...

Scientists know little about the phenomenon known as black holes, except they consume everything in their space, but a good point of reference may be found in the Bay area where Golden State's Monta Ellis resides. Ellis is a superior offensive talent without question, but his unwillingness to share the basketball is just another area of concern for a franchise whose season has been defined by them. Speculation says Ellis will be available at ...

This is the time of year where every game counts in the NBA, and this week's version of the NBA Stock Report reflects that as the number 3-8 positions are separated by a single game. Cleveland and Los Angeles, the top two teams on the list continued to create distance in their respective conferences, while the rest of the teams have either 20 or 21 losses. With a little over two months ...

The Denver Nuggets have established themselves as a legitimate threat to contend for a NBA championship this season, but as a columnist for the Los Angeles, I am a lot more wary of Chauncey Billups than the Nuggets themselves. Billups plays the point guard position, which has been a bane for the Lakers, and in my opinion, he plays it better than anyone else in the league, including names like Chris Paul, ...

The Los Angeles Lakers have the rare luxury of two talented 7-foot players in Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol starting in their lineup, but their true value may be better realized if Bynum was relegated to the bench. There are those who would argue the sheer size of Bynum and Gasol on the floor together makes it difficult for opponents to operate in the paint, and while that may be true, ...

The National media spends little time discussing the Golden State Warriors, and when it does, the focus of the conversation is usually centered around the brilliance of rookie Stephen Curry or the offensive skills of Monta Ellis. A player like Anthony Morrow isárarely mentioned when discussing the Warriors, but due to a TNT showcase, Morrow was given the opportunity to share the spotlight equally with Curry and Ellis. The Warriors lost the ...

The Dallas Mavericks made the deal which brought Caron Butler, Brendan Haywood, and Deshawn Stevenson into the fold in order to deal with the top teams in the Western Conference. Tonight Dallas gets to see how much of a difference those new players will make when they are matched up with the Los Angeles Lakers, the best team the Western Conference has to offer. As far as measuring sticks go, there is ...

I'm sure fans of the Los Angeles Lakers were thrilled by Kobe Bryant's successful return to the lineup on Tuesday night, and were elated by his late game heroics, but the performance of his supporting cast had to be a disappointment. Therein lies the paradox which surrounds Bryant and his Laker team. The win over the Memphis Grizzlies was great, but the failure of his teammates to display the aggressiveness shown ...

What a way to make an entrance. Kobe Bryant returned to the Los Angeles Laker roster with his clutch ability on full display as he sank a three-pointer with 4.3 seconds on the clock to sink the Memphis Grizzlies 99-98 Tuesday night. If there were any doubts as to which approach Bryant would take after a five game layoff they were quickly answered as Bryant sprinted to a nine point first ...

Before Ferdinand Magellan's crew completed their historic journey around theáglobe in 1522, there was a large contingent of society who believed the world was flat, andáif one sailed to the ends of the ocean, they would simply fall off the map into oblivion. Magellan's voyage coupled with other historical journeys ended talks of a flat world for the majority of people but there was still a group who refused to believe ...