Bryant Scores 38 Points as Lakers Top Suns
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Kobe Bryant asked to be traded last spring in part because he wanted to play for a team that could contend for a championship. He just might have gotten his wish by staying put.
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Steve Nash scored a regular season  career-high 42 points in leading the Phoenix Suns to a stunning  161-157 double-overtime win over the New Jersey Nets on  Thursday, the fourth-highest scoring game in NBA history.
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Amare Stoudemire collected 34 points  and Shawn Marion added 26 points and 11 rebounds to help the  red-hot Phoenix Suns crush the Miami Heat 122-107 in Tuesday's  clash of the NBA's conference leaders.
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The Los Angeles Lakers&#39; Kobe Bryant scored a season-high 42 points but it was not enough to defeat his adversary and former team-mate Shaquille O&#39;Neal, whose Miami Heat ran out 104-102 winners after overtime in one of the most eagerly anticipated regular
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Steve Nash scored 18 of his 23 points in the second half &#151; including two free throws with 5.4 seconds to play, and the Phoenix Suns held on to beat the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers 99-94 on Sunday.
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Kobe Bryant had 29 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists, his fellow starters all scored in double figures, and the Los Angeles Lakers pulled away in the final five minutes to beat the winless Chicago Bulls 102-93 Sunday night.
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Quentin Richardson makes eight three-pointers and scores 37 points to give the Suns a 121-99 victory over the Trail Blazers.
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LOS ANGELES - Kobe Bryant scored 48 points in 46 minutes after spraining his left shoulder in the opening period, and the Los Angeles Lakers enjoyed their highest-scoring game of the season with a 117-99 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday night.
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The Phoenix Suns came into the game averaging a league-leading 106 points. They nearly achieved that mark by the end of the third quarter Sunday night.
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Hours after saying former teammate Karl Malone made a pass at his wife at a game last month, Kobe Bryant scored 23 points in the Lakers' 105-98 victory over the Orlando Magic on Sunday night.
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TORONTO -- Kobe Bryant scored 46 points and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Toronto Raptors 121-101 on Friday night, hours after acquiring Pau Gasol in a trade with Memphis.
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Kobe Bryant shook off a slow start to score 27 points and lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 90-83 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Monday.
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Kobe Bryant scored a season-high 52 points, making all nine of his shots in the third quarter Thursday night in the Los Angeles Lakers' 132-102 victory over the Utah Jazz.
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Kobe Bryant scored the Lakers' first 14 points in the fourth quarter and finished with 42, carrying Los Angeles to a 99-91 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Sunday night.
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Kobe Bryant shook off a slow start to  score 27 points and lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 90-83 win  over the Atlanta Hawks on Monday.
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Playing another aggressive game, Bryant scored 25 points as the Los Angeles Lakers posted a 113-102 preseason victory over the Los Angeles Clippers.
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Brian Grant had 22 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Los Angeles Lakers over the Phoenix Suns 111-103 in an NBA pre-season game Sunday night.