Rebuilt Lakers open season against improved Nuggets
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The Lakers, such as they are, open defense of their Western Conference championship Tuesday night against the up-and-coming Denver Nuggets.
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The Memphis Grizzlies took their lumps against the Lakers in Los Angeles when Shaquille O&#39;Neal was around. Now it&#39;s just Kobe Bryant by himself, and the difference was dramatic.
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The Los Angeles Lakers step into the 2007-08 National Basketball Association season with trade talk swirling around superstar Kobe Bryant.
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The NBA enters unfamiliar territory in its first season after the breakup of the Los Angeles Lakers, unquestionably the league&#39;s marquee team for the past five years.
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Los Angeles Lakers Kobe Bryant, center, joined Shaquille O&#39;Neal and rest of his teammates on the bench during the start of the fourth quarter against the Dallas Mavericks in this Oct. 28, 2003 photo, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
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After a summer spent expanding its global brand with exhibition games from Shanghai to Rome, the NBA opens a new season on Tuesday looking to win back home fans following a gambling scandal which rocked the sport to its core.
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Kobe Bryant scored 46 points as the Los  Angeles Lakers laid out the welcome mat for new teammate Pau  Gasol with a 121-101 win over the Toronto Raptors on Friday.
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The Mystics return to the road on Friday against the Minnesota Lynx, where they have been a better team this season.
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SEATTLE - Rashard Lewis scored a season-high 37 points, and the Seattle SuperSonics improved to 18-4 with a 108-93 win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night.
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For the first time since 1982, the NBA is sending two teams back to the court for a do-over.
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Is Phil Jackson ready to make a return to the NBA? Jackson, who was pushed out as Los Angeles Lakers coach after last season, is being considered for the full-time coaching position of the Denver Nuggets, The Rocky Mountain News reported.
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In their first game as Kobe Bryant&#39;s team, the Los Angeles Lakers didn&#39;t need Bryant to dominate. Bryant had 25 points, seven assists and three blocked shots, and Chris Mihm added a career-high 23 points and
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Kobe Bryant came back and looked good. The Los Angeles Lakers haven't quite recovered. Bryant returned after missing 14 games with an ankle injury but couldn't reverse Los Angeles's slide as LeBron James scored 25 points -- 21 in the second half -- and Zydrunas Ilgauskas had 30 to lead the Cavaliers to a 103-89 victory yesterday in Cleveland.
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(Sports Network) - The Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets play the first of a home- and-home set tonight, as the squad meet at the Pepsi Center.
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SEATTLE Rashard Lewis scored a season-high 37 points and Ray Allen added 26 as Seattle whipped the Los Angeles Lakers 108-to-93. Lewis scored 17 points in the first quarter and had 22 by the break to help
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Oakland, Calif. - With Carmelo Anthony and Kenyon Martin looking on in street clothes Monday night, the Nuggets came close but couldn&#39;t overcome the loss of their injured stars.
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Kobe Bryant scores a season-high 53 points and adds 10 rebounds and eight assists, leading the Los Angeles Lakers back from down 21 points to a 112-101 double-overtime win over the Houston Rockets.