TWICE WON!!!!

At AT&T Center, a game that resembled

our past Lakers' noticed the matching of

intensity and the games' ending. We 

won in overtime with score being: Lakers 112

and the San Antonio Spurs 110. It was a

most interesting game to see Friday night.  San

Antonio has one of the games' best coaches,

Gregg Popovich. The Texas Spurs team has

some mighty good players too, namely;

Tim Duncan, Ginobli and Parker. Their

coach was even expecting the game

to be very demanding yet was quoted

as giving remarks favorably about Kobe.

Being we were still on the road, we played

a game on Sunday in our very own

starting state of Minnesota. Lakers did not

come to California until 1960. The name

"LAKERS" derived from Minnesota as

being the land of over 10,000 lakes.

We kept the name even when coming to

L.A.  Minnesota happens to be the

home too of this writer, having moved

myself to sunny California in 1965.

We played still being on the road and then again, 

we won this game. Final score being: 100-94. 

In fact it was yet another milestone for our 

Kobe Bryant, having surpassed Michael Jordan 

in points. Yup, Kobe broke  Michael's record in points.

Kobe, a rookie at age 18, Coach  Byron Scott

well remembers him then and has been an

avid  observer all these years since.

It was a very passionate moment in

basketball history for him to now be Kobe's

coach. At games' end, they embraced and

smiles were noted just about everywhere.

Wesley Johnson, Davis, Price, Hill, Lin,

Nick Young, Sacre and Boozer each lent

their worth for the score to be as it was.

Their contributions were needed and gave

Kobe lee-way to make the points that he did.

What a 'special night it was too. Our pride

in him and the applauding fans made every

single thing great. Kobe has played since

he was age 18 and now at age 36, he has

managed to realize many of his achievements yet

one almost can hear him chant, "But I do still

want to play to  win yet another Championship".

It is possible. Suppose it might be in the offing?

We will just have to continue to cheer our

team on and hope for the best. We now will

continue seeing Kobe acting as roll model and

mentor. Nick Young, having just  ended his pre-

draft workout, feels he has one big responsibility

as he has become the teams' fun-loving player

with his constant smile and great attitude,

we shall be watching him too. See you at the

next game!

BABS WELLS