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LOS ANGELES -- On the plus side, the Los Angeles Lakers put the screws to the Utah Jazz down the stretch of the fourth quarter, transforming what appeared to be a deflating blowout home loss in the making into merely a deflating home loss. That's ...

The Utah Jazz began this season regarded by most as a team in flux: Enough talent (Al Jefferson, Paul Millsap, promising second-year player Gordon Hayward) not to be terrible, but not enough to hang with the Western Conference big boys. And a surpris...

Should the Lakers drop Tuesday's game against Utah, it will result in their first 0-3 start since Oct. 17, 1978. To put in perspective just how long ago that was, Jimmy Carter was president, Andy Gibb's "Shadow Dancing" was the year's chart topping-e...

When Jerry West talks about the Lakers, people tend to listen. Thus, his recent comments about the two-time defending champs being too told to D up certainly prompted the media for responses today in El Segundo. As expected, nobody in their right (pu...

If the Land O' Lakers readership is anything like me (or BK, since I witnessed the damage my brother did last night), they're still stomach deep in semi-digested turkey, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie. Thus, the notion of exercise, much less in a co...

After last week's relative ease, things could turn mite trickier for the Lakers. Nothing they can't necessarily handle, but definitely more complicated than a string against Milwaukee, Detroit, Minnesota and Golden State minus David Lee. The Lakers w...

Jayne Oncea/US Presswire Kobe Bryant's 19 third-quarter points Sunday were the best evidence yet his knee is improving. They say second place is the first loser, which leaves a capital "L" across the entire Laker roster's foreheads. (Even Drew Naym...

Here we are folks! One win away from the coveted Staples Center shootout trophy, followed by a champagne bath in the locker room! Or maybe not. I'm pretty sure there is no trophy awarded to the tourney's winner, and either way, I'm absolutely positiv...

With last night's 111-96 beatdown of the Utah Jazz, the Lakers put to bed any concerns about extreme vulnerability created by a tough first round against Oklahoma City. A sweep will do that for a team's image. But if brooming an opponent reinforces a...

With 3:11 remaining in the second quarter, Carlos Boozer is fed on a re-post by Deron Williams. Having just unsuccessfully tried to back down Pau Gasol, facing up for traction against El Spaniard yields results no better for the Jazz's All-star. Booz...

The Lakers, up 1-0 on the Utah Jazz, remain undefeated during these playoffs at Staples Center. For their part, the visitors remain a shorthanded team (no Andrei Kirilenko or Mehmet Okur) and short-sized against L.A. Can the Lakers make it 2-0 before...

A series-opening win over the Utah Jazz may have put the Lakers up 1-0 in a quest to reach the Western Conference finals, but life in the driver's seat wasn't a smooth Sunday drive through the country. The 104-99 victory left the defending champs sat...

I can easily imagine what y'all thought in reaction to the 102-87 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers -- but probably can't print it. But here are some reactions that are "safe for work," as the parlance goes. As I noted in my postgame analysis, the b...