TWO REALLY FUN GAMES TO WATCH

One on our own home court at Staples
against the Denver Nuggets which we
won and back to back the next game
was in the mile high city of Denver
on their own home court which they won.
Both games were nearly a neck to neck existence.
All players put their hearts into it and both were
keeping us sitting there most intensely.
In the L.A. game, Andrew Bynum scored
29 points on 13 for 18 shooting and grabbed
13 rebounds in his first game back on the courts
since his imposing suspension was fulfilled.
Bryant added 17 points on 6 for 18 shooting,
plus 10 rebounds and 9 assists with Pau Gasol scoring
17 points on 7 for 10 shooting. Lakers guard Steve Blake
arrived seemingly from nowhere and contested a Denver
shot and Coach Mike Brown confessed that:
"Sometimes these things are huge so we have to
find a way to continue doing that".
In the game away from home, it was a very similar game
all throughout the plays. Our players looked smart and
appeared unbeatable as the two 7 footers, Pau Gasol and
Andrew Bynum worked their magic in the low post.
They were, however, out of sync & out of luck when they
settled for jump shots from Kobe Bryant. He had only
16 points on 6 for 28 shooting. Bynum, however,
blamed himself for some of the Lakers' offensive misfortunes
and so it was that suddenly they couldn't score and could not
keep the Nuggets from scoring.
There was a light in this tunnel all the same. Our Laker Kobe Bryant
reached a milestone when he scored his 28,000th point,
sinking a free throw with 10.43 left in the third quarter.
At 33 years, 131 days, he is the youngest to score that many points.
Bryant's scoring statistics are staggering. Only 5 players in league
history have scored more points than Bryant.
He trails Shaquille O'Neal at 28,596,
Wilt Chamberlain at 31,419, Michael Jordan with 32,292,
Karl Malone scored 36,928 and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 38,387
on this all-time list. Jordan and Bryant are the only guards
in the top six, however. Jordan though, was almost age 35
before he reached 28,000 points. In terms of games,
Bryant is the fifth-fastest to get to the milestone at 1,109.
He is now closer to the end of his career than he is to the start
and might become more of a passer later on rather than a shooter -
possibly even within this season. All players realize that they are
still feeling their way right now with a new coach.
At any rate, with numbers this close for the last two games,
for the spectators, our players gave us fun games to watch!

Babs Wells