Steven Adams goes up for the alley-oop against the Los Angeles Lakers.
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Lakers’ Kobe Bryant rules out playing overseas after retirement: Through the endless grind accumulated from almost two decades of National Basketball Association excellence, Kobe Bryant remains determined to finish out the 20th and final year of his National Basketball Association career. Oklahoma City also out-rebounded the Lakers 56-32, and had 28 assists to the Lakers 14. In 2011, the Lakers beat Scott’s post-LeBron James Cavaliers by 55 points.
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“We just had to stay focus and keep doing what we do every night”, Kanter said. He said he would play Tuesday at Denver.
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With Bryant out, the Lakers started seldom-used rookie Anthony Brown in his place.
Mike Conley scored 20 points and Marc Gasol added 19 to lead the Memphis Grizzlies to a 96-84 victory over the Indiana Pacers at FedExForum.
Oklahoma led 35-15 after the opening period, and never let up on the accelerator. The Thunder had seven dunks in the first half, three of them alley-oops from Westbrook to Steven Adams.
Durant and Westbrook did play well in the victory to hand the Lakers a second consecutive defeat.
Though Oklahoma City outmatched the Lakers, the LA young players – D’Angelo Russell and Julius Randle – refused to collaborate their coach’s fear that they were scared of the Thunder.
“For me not to be voted in, I know it might sound hard to really process when I say I’m completely fine with that”, said Bryant, who has been voted into 17 All-Star games. “Come out ready and focus on what we need to focus on and do our job”.
Previously, the Lakers’ worst loss to this franchise came in 2000 against the Seattle SuperSonics, who began National Basketball Association play in 1967.
“The injuries that I’ve had, I’ve always been able to look at those from a positive light and learn from those things”, Bryant said.
The league is transitioning to more of a small ball type play and players are expected to be versatile and be well rounded on both ends of the floor.
NOTES: Los Angeles F Kobe Bryant sat out with a sore shoulder. “Dante is a fantastic young player”, Bryant said.
Bryant recorded his first dunk of the season on Thursday against the Houston Rockets, a right-handed slam over forward Clint Capela in the third quarter of a 107-87 loss.
“I think it was kind of logical to expect it to be sore at some point”, Bryant said.
“It was great”, Bryant said, declining to go into depth.
Arron Afflalo added 18 points for the Knicks, who got back to.
The Lakers have been so bad, so boring, in that even their most vocal supporter – & typically critic – has-been pushed in to silence.
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Bryant and Durant have developed a mutual admiration for each other ever since Durant entered the league in 2007.
