It’s your first shot, but it won’t be your last.
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Flying in and out of the rotation lately, Nick Young received 29 minutes off the bench and finished off the game, adding 13 points on 5 of 9 shooting.
Overall health and minutes play a role.
This time there was no video tribute. He believes that the retiring Lakers player deserves a proper send-off which happens this coming February in Toronto. Barring injury, he and the Lakers will be back in February.
Coincidence or was it something spurred by what Scott saw when Bryant volunteered to sit out? There’s simply too much history here.
The Wolves hung in there, though, and capitalized during overtime to come away with the win, albeit barely. The matchup oftentimes presented a key test for one team on its way to a championship.
Naturally, the Spurs are considered heavy favourites in this match as they have a title-contending team and are playing considerably better than the Lakers in the current season. “We have had had some epic battles”.
“It will be a great personality gone”, Popovich said Friday before the played the Spurs.
After the 1999 playoffs, when the Spurs dumped the Lakers in the second round, it started to get serious.
In the first quarter, Garnett and Towns made jumpers before Bryant got a chance to shoot. “He was going to have to find me”. “We don’t try to “convince” people”, Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich said. Clarkson is having a solid sophomore season in the National Basketball Association but he is set to become a free agent after this season so there is some question as to whether the Lakers will keep him but Mike Bresnahan of the Los Angeles Times says it is all but guaranteed he is a Laker next season and beyond. “Words can’t describe the amount of respect I have for him”. “We’ve got to give guys credit for accepting responsibility of where we were and accepting responsibility and putting responsibility on themselves that they had to do something to change it”. Minnesota played minimal defense, and the team allowed 21 Lakers points off 15 turnovers.
Scott has caught criticism from all angles for the job he’s done coaching the 3-19 Lakers. In fact, they haven’t had one shorter than that.
The Lakers (3-19) had six players score in double figures, including youngsters Julius Randle (20) and Russell (23).
When does a 22-point loss feel like a win?
They played against LaMarcus Aldridge for the first time since he rebuffed them in the wild first few days of July. Russell looks vastly improved from his first month of the season. He was 5-of-10 from 3 on Friday. He hasn’t exactly had a great relationship with Russell and probably some of the younger players. But the reserves were especially ineffective. Bryant leads in three major statistical categories: points (16.2), assists (3.3) and steals (1.1). More than that, he is giving fans some vintage highlights.
“I don’t even understand the word “happy.’ ‘Happy” is a stupid word”.
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He also was asked what stands out about the Spurs in his mind. Patty Mills led that charge as he nailed back-to-back three’s.
