Febuary 12th: Memphis edges by the Lakers. Trade rumors abound.

 
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:04 am    Post subject: Febuary 12th: Memphis edges by the Lakers. Trade rumors abound.

Gasol's late heroics lift Memphis over Kobe, Lakers

ยท Complete Schedule: Memphis | Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Pau Gasol's low-post dominance and a determined starting backcourt of ex-Los Angeles Lakers were enough to help the Memphis Grizzlies escape Staples Center with a one-point win for the second time this season.

Gasol scored four of his 31 points in the final 53 seconds, Eddie Jones had 25 points against his former team, and the Grizzlies kept Kobe Bryant in check en route to a 100-99 victory over the Lakers on Saturday night.

"I'm ecstatic for the guys because they've had so many games like this in the last three weeks where they've been around but haven't finished the games off," coach Mike Fratello said. "Just when it looked like it was slipping away again tonight, they dug down."


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:09 am    Post subject:

Heads of teams play mind games

AROUND THE RIM

By Don Wade
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February 12, 2006

First, Phil Jackson said the refs were "nervous Nellies" in Mark Cuban's house as a way of blaming the officiating for a recent Lakers loss at Dallas.

Then Cuban, owner of the Mavericks, responded with a windy blog -- yes, a blog -- entitled "I own Phil Jackson."

Grown men have no business acting like this.

But it sure is fun when they do.

Cuban is obsessed with officiating, Jackson is obsessed with Cuban being obsessed, and Cuban is obsessed with the idea that Jackson is really obsessed with him.

Follow?

"I know there's a lot of pressure on the refs when they come back here because Mark" sends the tapes to the league office, Jackson said.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:16 am    Post subject:

NBA Notes: Trade rumors abound as the deadline nears

By Seattle Times news services

snippet: "But Martin is getting sick of hearing his name bandied about in trade talks if there's no truth to it, and he's telling associates that if the Nuggets want to move him, they should go ahead and do it already.

The Lakers are looking to tinker with their squad, but sources say Los Angeles basically pulled Lamar Odom off the table in any potential deal. The Grizzlies would love to send forward Lorenzen Wright packing, but there aren't many suitors so far."
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:18 am    Post subject:


Jackson trying to reach Brown

By Ross Siler, Staff Writer

There have been various ways that Lakers coach Phil Jackson has tried to get through to Kwame Brown this season, including giving Brown a copy of his own book "Sacred Hoops" on the Lakers' six-game trip in December.

While the Lakers were back on the road for a recently completed seven-game trip, Jackson met with Brown and talked to him about a game that Detroit's Ben Wallace played, one that proved you don't have to score a single point to be an All-Star.

Wallace finished with one of the strangest lines of the season in a Feb. 1 game against Minnesota - totaling 17 rebounds but failing to hit a shot - as the Pistons won. And Jackson asked Brown if he would feel successful with a game like that.

Brown answered that he would rather score some points. Jackson relayed the exchange to reporters before Saturday's game in talking about Brown needing to define his game with defense and rebounding rather than focusing on scoring.

"I think maybe the most difficult thing for players," Jackson said,"is the knowledge of who they really are and playing to their strengths and eliminating their weaknesses. In basketball, there's only a couple of players that have the latitude to be everything."
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:21 am    Post subject:

Write on week 6

Question: Find the silver lining in the Lakers' loss last week to the lowly Charlotte Bobcats.

BELIEVE IN THE GOLDEN TRADITION

MARK KAGEYAMA

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Plant nursery manager

"The game's in the refrigerator! The door's closed, the lights are out, the eggs are cooling, the butter's getting hard, and the Jell-ooooo's jiggling!"

I miss those words. Even more so, I miss the man who said those words. To this day, when I turn on a Laker broadcast, a part of me still longs to hear his voice once again. He was a great friend (though we never met), and he was a great friend to many of you, too.

The late, beloved Francis "Chick" Hearn gave us the above quote, which was his way of proclaiming an imminent Laker victory. His "words eye view" and "Chickisms" gave fans descriptive and captivat ing visions of Laker basketball. Chick taught us about NBA Basketball, about players, about life. Most importantly, though, Chick taught us how to be fans. Los Angeles Laker fans.

Chick called 3,338 consecutive games between November 21,1965 and December 16, 2001. Over 36 years! "A Slaaaaaammmm Dunk!" A paycheck alone isn't reason enough for this type of dedication. Love of what you're doing is.

How would Chick respond to the recent loss to the woeful Charlotte Bobcats? How about this:

"An embarrassing loss, no doubt. However, it's only 1 game in an 82 game schedule. A blip on the radar, a bump in the road. West, Baylor, Wilt, Goodrich, Magic, Kareem, Worthy, and all great players had games like this, but they kept at it, game after game. Year after year. And look where they ended up."
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:24 am    Post subject:

Grizzlies too much for Bryant, Lakers
Associated Press

Pau Gasol scored four of his 31 points in the final 53 seconds, Eddie Jones had 25 points, and the Memphis Grizzlies kept Kobe Bryant in check en route to a 100-99 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday night at Staples Center. Chucky Atkins had 18 points for the Grizzlies, who ended a season-worst five-game losing streak and a six-game road skid. Memphis has won three of its last four games against the Lakers in Los Angeles, after losing the first 18.



Bryant scored 12 of his 26 points in the fourth quarter and Smush Parker added 20 for the Lakers. Bryant, who came in averaging a league-leading 35.4 points, missed 12 of his first 17 shots and finished 10-for-28 from the field.

Bryant made a 3-pointer that triggered a run of eight consecutive points by the nine-time All-Star and gave the Lakers an 86-77 lead with 7:48 to play. But Jones' 3-pointer capped a 9-2 spurt and got Memphis within 90-89 with 3:53 remaining.

Bryant gave the Lakers some breathing room with a 14-footer, Kwame Brown converted an offensive rebound of Lamar Odom's long miss into a 3-point play and Bryant drained a 20-footer for a 99-95 lead with 1:07 left. But the Grizzlies wouldn't quit.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:26 am    Post subject:

'Misery' revisited for Lakers
Grizzlies win in similar fashion when they last visited L.A.
Ross Siler, Staff writer


Kobe Bryant is presented with his All-Star game warm up before their game against Memphis.
Photo Gallery: 2/11: Lakers vs. Grizzlies (Tom Mendoza/Staff photographer)
There were a few cosmetic changes, but not many. The calendar said February, Kobe Bryant kept his elbows to himself and Chucky Atkins stopped by the old locker room afterward, fast becoming a winner's circle for former Lakers.

Otherwise, the final minute of Saturday night's 100-99 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies at Staples Center played out with frightening similarity to the end of regulation of the Lakers' overtime loss to the Grizzlies at home back on Dec. 28.

The final score was identical - and so was the Lakers' collapse down the stretch. They blew a five-point lead in the last minute of regulation six weeks ago - a game Lakers coach Phil Jackson called "misery" - and led 99-95 entering the final minute Saturday.

"Same script, really," Bryant said. "They were able to make plays down the stretch and we weren't defensively."
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:28 am    Post subject:

NBA Game Summary - Memphis at LA Lakers
02.12.2006

Los Angeles, CA (Basketball News) - Chucky Atkins scored 18 points and burned his old team by making a free throw with three seconds left, to boost Memphis to a 100-99 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers at the Staples Center.

Pau Gasol had a huge game for the Grizzlies with 31 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists. Eddie Jones added 25 points and eight rebounds against his former club, as the Grizzlies snapped a season-high five-game skid and won three of the four meetings this season versus the Lakers.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:30 am    Post subject:

Lakers come up short as Grizzlies' Atkins hits decisive free throw
BY KEVIN DING
The Orange County Register

LOS ANGELES - Nowhere near being the NBA's best team, as their ongoing inconsistency makes clear, the Lakers do continue to build a case for being the most dramatic team.

On Saturday night, in yet another game that could have gone either way, the Lakers fell to the Memphis Grizzlies, 100-99, at Staples Center.

It was the Lakers' league-leading 24th game decided by six points or fewer - nearly half (they are 25-25) of the team's games - and the Lakers dropped to 12-12 in those games.

"That's the way this team is," Coach Phil Jackson said. "You have a Jekyll-and-Hyde situation sometimes with this ballclub."

This loss was among the biggest in those aforementioned 12 because the Lakers blew a chance to pull into a tie with Memphis, which had lost five consecutive games, for the No. 7 spot in the Western Conference.

Even more glaring, the Lakers led the entire fourth quarter until the final seconds, when defensive failures could not be overcome.

And at the very end, the game within the game came down to Smush Parker, this season's Kobe Bryant partner in the backcourt, against Chucky Atkins, last season's Bryant partner.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:32 am    Post subject:

Kobe's account of his trade to Lakers flawed
RICK BONNELL

Self-interest is standard practice among professional athletes. Self-delusion isn't quite as common.

So when Kobe Bryant tells a whopper, like the one he did recently in Oklahoma City, I have to call him on it.

A reporter there asked him why he never played for the Hornets after they drafted him in 1996. Bryant made it sound as if the Hornets pushed him to the curb.

"They told me I wasn't going to be there very long. They were looking to move me," Bryant said. "At the time, it was a little bit of a shock being told that the team doesn't have much use for you."

That, ladies and gentlemen, is revisionist history at its finest.

I covered the Hornets at the time, when they were in Charlotte. It's true the Hornets drafted him to trade him, but that's where the accuracy of Bryant's memory fades. His agent at the time, Arn Tellem, did a brilliant job of manipulating the system to get Bryant to the Lakers.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:36 am    Post subject:

Deadline Could Bring Desperate Acts
February 12, 2006
By MARK HEISLER, Los Angeles Times


snippet: "LAKERS: They could have had Artest for Odom - and what did they have to lose? Forget about that loss to the Bobcats. Take away Kobe Bryant and coach Phil Jackson and they are the Bobcats."
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:38 am    Post subject:

Home Is No Help to Lakers
# They falter down stretch and lose to Memphis, 100-99, in first game back at Staples after 2-5 trip. Bryant misses last shot, and 17 others.

By Mike Bresnahan, Times Staff Writer

Kobe Bryant was cold, and so were the Lakers, as if they were still mired in their eternally long, strange trip that took them to forgettable losses in Detroit, Indianapolis, Charlotte, Oklahoma City, Dallas and on and on.

But no, they were back home again, finally, perhaps even mercifully, only to accomplish what they had become so accustomed to doing on their 2-5 swing.


They lost. Again.

Chucky Atkins, ejected from the Lakers in the Kwame Brown trade, hit a free throw with three seconds to play to give the Memphis Grizzlies a 100-99 victory Saturday at Staples Center.

Bryant, who had 26 points on 10-for-28 shooting, had a chance at redemption as time expired, but with Eddie Jones up against him, he air-balled a fadeaway three-point attempt from the right side.

And with that, the Lakers officially took their road woes home with them, falling to 12-9 at home, where 20 of their final 32 games will be played.

The Lakers are still clinging to eighth place in the Western Conference, a game ahead of Utah, which will be here
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:41 am    Post subject:

Mark Heisler's Rankings

Snippet: "15. Lakers (25-25) Lamar Odom's post-Sacramento funk now almost a month old. He's averaging 10 points since. (15)"
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:47 am    Post subject:

Grizzlies capture win over Lakers


Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant gets the ball stripped from him by Memphis Grizzlies' Chucky Atkins, Saturday night, Los Angeles. (AP/Mark J. Terrill)

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Pau Gasol scored 31 points and Eddie Jones added 25 points as the Memphis Grizzlies kept Kobe Bryant in check en route to a 100-99 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday night.

Chucky Atkins had 18 points for the Grizzlies, who ended a season-worst five-game losing streak and a six-game road skid. Memphis has won three of its last four games against the Lakers in Los Angeles, after losing the first 18.

Bryant scored 12 of his 26 points in the fourth and Smush Parker added 20 for the Lakers. Bryant, who came in averaging a league-leading 35.4 points, missed 12 of his first 17 shots and finished 10-for-28 from the field.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 2:17 am    Post subject:

Knicks Pass On Odom, Prefer Frye
12th February, 2006 - 5:07 am
New York Post - While Isiah Thomas continues to shop Penny Hardaway's expiring contract up till the Feb. 23 trade deadline, the Knicks' president continues to protect rookie Channing Frye.

A league source who has spoken to Thomas told The Post the Knicks rejected the Lakers' overtures for Frye, even though they were willing to make 6-10 Queens product Lamar Odom available in a larger package.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:17 pm    Post subject:

Bryant, Magic, Leslie join Shooting Stars
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NEW YORK - NBA scoring leader Kobe Bryant will team with former Lakers great Magic Johnson and Los Angeles Sparks center Lisa Leslie in the Shooting Stars competition on Saturday night of All-Star weekend.

There are four teams in the event, with the object to make shots from six locations in the fastest time. Teams are made up of a current and former NBA player from its city, plus one WNBA player.

Johnson and Leslie, the WNBA's career scoring leader, won the event two years ago with Derek Fisher. This time they get Bryant, who leads the league with 35.2 points a game.
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