Lakers ready to launch season with Bryant
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The Los Angeles Lakers launch their NBA campaign by hosting the Houston Rockets on Tuesday with All Star guard Kobe Bryant expected to start despite struggling with a pre-season wrist injury.
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The Los Angeles Lakers have become an even more dangerous team with Pau Gasol. Just ask Kobe Bryant.
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Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers hope to put yet another controversy behind them as they begin a two-game road trip against the Seattle SuperSonics.
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After 14 months of sordid headlines and days of hearings that left unanswered questions, Kobe Bryant&#39;s sexual assault trial was to begin with hundreds of people scheduled to arrive for the first wave of jury selection.
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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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Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant will spend another Christmas together.
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Kobe Bryant got everything he wanted. Isn&#39;t that what everyone said last summer? Wasn&#39;t that the premise when the Los Angeles Lakers gave Bryant, their star guard, a $136 million contract and
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LeBron James and Shaquille O'Neal made sure their teams wouldn't be pushed around again by rivals. There was nothing Kobe Bryant could do to help the Lakers, however.
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Kobe Bryant has a severely sprained right ankle, but the Los Angeles Lakers said Friday that they would not know until Monday exactly how long he will be out.
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Wearing a black brace on his injured right hand, Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant sat out the Western Conference's light practice on Saturday but still expects to start in Sunday's NBA All-Star game.
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The Los Angeles Lakers had their first win this season as they defeated the winless Hawks 106-90 Sunday night. Kobe Bryant scored 24 points and Caron Butler added 22, China Radio International reported Monday.
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Description: Shaquille O&#39;Neal and Kobe Bryant will exchange baskets instead of presents on Christmas Day when their teams, the Miami Heat and Los Angeles Lakers, respectively, meet on the court.
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(Sports Network) - It&#39;s not easy being a one-man show, just ask Kobe Bryant. Despite him performing quite well, Bryant&#39;s Lakers are just 3-4 heading into tonight&#39;s contest against Tracy McGrady, Yao Ming and the Houston Rockets at the Toyota Center.
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Kobe Bryant, Jason Kidd and Chauncey Billups are expected to be linchpins of USA Basketballâs next team, which begins Olympic qualifying in Las Vegas on Aug. 22.
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That the Lakers are now bumping up against the N.B.A.âs top tier â with Kobe Bryant firmly at the controls â is a surprise to everyone except perhaps Bryant.
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Los Angeles Lakers&#39; Kobe Bryant, left, puts up a shot as Atlanta Hawks&#39; Kevin Willis guards during the first half, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2004, in Los Angeles.
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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.