A WIN IS A WIN IS A WIN

Lamar Odom, former Laker player, was emotional at the game between
our Lakers and the Dallas Mavs. He was sent to go play with Dallas
and this game was his first playing against his old team mates at Staples.
The crowds applauded him and gave Lamar a standing ovation.
Mighty proud I am today of fans & our gallant fella's. Derek Fisher helped us tie
with Dallas and we won the game 73-70. The Lakers scored a grand total of
7 points in the third quarter, their lowest total for a period since they dropped
6 on the Chicago Bulls on Nov. 20, 1977. Andrew Bynum led the Lakers
with 17 points and 15 rebounds. Kobe Bryants' huge numbers of points made
with 40+ points ended. He had only 14 points on 7 for 22 shooting. Kobe, however,
has been placed on the Olympic roster. He was named on Monday morning
to the 20 man roster for the 2012 London Olympics, which was not a shocker given his gold medal performance for Team USA in the 2008 Beijing games.
He does really want to be in London and so, depending on his injury to the right wrist, that will be the determining factor. So in this case, being informed of how he is coming along, the powers that be will be keeping very well posted on his health. No one wishes to put him in any jeopardy. The final Olympic rosters must be trimmed to 12 in June or before the U.S. begins training camp sometime after July 4. The games themselves will be held July 27-August 12. Joining Bryant on the preliminary roster were: Chauncey Billups, Blake Griffin, Chris Paul, LaMarcus Aldridge, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh, Tyson Chandler, Kevin Durant, Rudy Gay, Eric Gordon, Dwight Howard, Andrew Iguodala, LeBron James, Kevin Love, Lamar Odom, Derrick Rose, Dwyane Wade, Russell Westbrook and Deron Williams. The NBA named Bryant the Western Conference player of the week for the second straight week after he averaged 43 points on 50.4 percent shooting while leading the Lakers toa 3-1 record last week. He also averaged 6.3 rebounds and 3.5 assists. And that, my reading friends, is a win in no matter which language one wishes to state it..a win all the way around.

Babs Wells