I have seen that many people have followed this blog and I am sorry to say that I haven’t been updating this blog. I haven’t forgotten this blog, but I have been doing some stat work and will reveal this later on this blog. It’s not Laker related, but more like Playoff Odds related. The kind of stats ESPN shows us, “When a team is up 3-0, the other team is 0-94 in the series”…ect. The stats will include the winner of the series and all that. As the season gets closer, I will update this more regularly.
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Lakers Greatest Moments: Derek Fisher Hits two Clutch Threes to bring the Lakers One Win closer to a Championship. (June 11, 2009)
Down by three points, the Lakers needed a three pointer to tie the game and take the game into overtime. Who would step up for the Lakers? It wasn’t Kobe Bryant. It wasn’t Trevor Ariza, It wasn’t Lamar Odom. It was Derek Fisher, who hit a three pointer and took the game into overtime. Derek Fisher went on to hit another clutch three pointer with 36 seconds left, leaving a big grin on Fishers face. Lakers went on to win 99-91, bringing them one win closer to a 2009 championship.
At an undetermined time, the Lakers plan to raise Shaquille O’Neal’s No. 34 jersey to the Staples Center rafters, making him the eighth Lakers player to have his number retired.
“There is no timetable and there is no plan other than yes, we definitely plan at some point to retire his jersey,” Lakers spokesman John Black said.
The news, as first reported by ESPN Los Angeles’ Dave McMenamin, coincides with O’Neal’s announcement Wednesday that he will retire after a 19-year career that spanned four NBA championships, three Finals most-valuable-player awards, one regular-season MVP award and 15 All-Star appearances. He is in fifth place on the league’s all-time scoring list (28,596 points) and has cemented his legacy as one of the NBA’s dominant centers.
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Lakers Greatest Moments: Lakers make 14-0 run in 50 seconds (May 24, 2002)
Down 26, with 7:56 seconds to go in the game, the Lakers would make one of the most historic runs in NBA history. It was Game 3 of the 2002 Western conference finals and Kobe hit a 3, Brian Shaw stole the ball and layed it up for 2 points, Chris Weber threw the ball out of bounds, Kobe hit another 3 pointer, Kobe made a steal, Horry hit a 3, Mike Bibby couldn’t handle an inbound pass and turned the ball over and Kobe hit another three pointer. The Lakers were now down only 12 points. Unfortunately that’s all she wrote for the game. The Lakers ended up losing the game 103-90, but this will always be remembered by Laker fans.
game 3 in the ‘02 WCF
Lakers Greatest Moments: Kobe Bryant 81 Points (January 22, 2006)
fter two quarters of the January 22, 2006 game against the Raptors, the 18,997 fans in the stands of the Staples Center were getting ready for another Laker loss when suddenly they became witnesses of a piece of history: Kobe Bryant scored 55 points in the second half to total 81 points, the second-best scoring show of all times and the best in 44 years.
The only record standing in top of Kobe’s 81 points is the legendary 100-point performance of Wilt Chamberlain against the New York Knicks on March 2, 1962. Although they say that records are made to be broken, before this winter Sunday, Chamberlain’s record seemed unreal, impossible to repeat in this era because it was set in an NBA where the worst scoring team averaged 111 points, and Chamberlain averaged 50.4 points in that 1962 season.
In 44 years after that 100-point game, only Chamberlain, David Thompson and David Robinson scored more than 70, but no one more than 73. Suddenly 100 is a number that although still improbable, is not impossible to reach, at least for this Kobe Bryant that has taken his game to a higher level.
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Lakers Greatest Moments: Kobe Bryant Outscores the Mavericks through 3 Quarters (December 20, 2005)
In a dominating performance, Kobe Bryant scored 62 points in three quarters, before sitting out the fourth quarter. He had 15 points in the first period, 17 in the second, and a franchise-record 30 in the third, when the Lakers enjoyed a 95-61 lead. The 30-point explosion in the third quarter by Bryan allowed the Lakers to outscore the Mavs 42-17 to break the game open. The league record for points in a quarter is 33 by former San Antonio Spur George “Iceman” Gervin in 1978. David Thompson of Denver scored 32 in a quarter the same season. Wilt Chamberlain had 31 in a quarter for Philadelphia in 1962, when he established the single-game NBA record with 100 points.
In a nearly two-week span, former Lakers center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar went from questioning the Lakers’ loyalty to questioning Scottie Pippen’s claim that LeBron James“may be the greatest player to ever play.”
After arguing that the Lakers’ failure to honor him with a statue serves as an example of the team disrespecting him, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer is now arguing Pippen’s willingness to prop up James on the heels of the Heat-Mavericks NBA Finals matchup reflects his lack of appreciation for NBA greats such asWilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell and even Pippen’s former teammate, Michael Jordan himself.
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Lakers Greatest Moments: Kobe’s two buzzer beaters to capture the Pacific division (April 14, 2004)
After losing to the Kings on April 11, all the Kings had to do was win one game and they would have captured the Pacific division with that win. The Kings were 55-25, and the Lakers were 54-26. The Kings lost to the Nuggets, as the Lakers best the Warriors. The Pacific division would go down to the last game of the season for both the Kings and the Lakers. If the Kings won, they held the tiebreaker over the Lakers, so all they needed to do was beat the Warriors. The Lakers Vs. Portland game went into overtime off an incredible Kobe buzzer beater as the Warriors beat the Kings. The Lakers needed to win in overtime now to capture the title. In overtime both the Trailblazers and the Lakers clawed their way to the end of the game. The game came down to literally the last second as Kobe came up to the 3 point line and shot a moon shot off balanced which went straight through the net and hit the ground like a ton of bricks. Portland fans were silenced as the Lakers went on to win in dramatic fashion, all the Portland fans, and announcers were silenced by the beauty of Kobe Bryants heroics to deliver the Lakers Pacific division title of 2004.
