Lakers fall to Celtics in second season match up

The Lakers fell 110-91 to their guests the Boston Celtics at the Staples Center Sunday, Dec. 30, despite a valiant effort from none other than Lakers’ team star Kobe Bryant, who had 22 points and shot 6-of-25 on the floor, according to an Associated Press article published Monday, Dec. 31 at Topix.net.

The Lakers, which ended its four game winning streak with the loss to Boston, have now won 10 of the last 14 games played and have been steadily improving with communication skills, work on defense and have even worked Sasha Vujacic and Andrew Bynum into play a bit more often. Ironically, the Celtics prevented Coach Phil Jackson from moving ahead of Hall of Famer and former Boston coach Ray Auberbach for the most careerwins. Jackson is tied for seventh with Auberback with 938 wins and hopes to move to the sixth place position in the upcoming weeks, according to the Associated Press article.

“Well, that was a rather long, laborious night for us . . .” Coach Phil Jackson said in an article published Dec. 31 on the Los Angeles Lakers official Web site. “They have a good defensive team. Obviously, I haven’t seen Kobe have a shooting night like that. After playing two really stellar games and shooting well, this is not a game we could put down next to those.”

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