Lakers on Texas Tour; Hope for Clean Sweep Against Spurs, Mavericks, Rockets

The Los Angeles Lakers are back in Texas but just because it’s a big state doesn’t mean the team is ready to back down - intimidated, the Lakers are not.

Coming off a big win over the Denver Nuggets, the Lakers face off against the Spurs tonight, Wednesday Jan. 23, at San Antonio’s AT&T Center and are filled with momentum but not overly confident, especially with star player Andrew Bynum benched with a knee injury. While center Bynum, who was acting as star Kobe Bryant’s right hand man until he was hurt in mid-January, is expected to sit out the next two months, according to a report published on the official Lakers Web site.
“It’s tough to go on a march through Texas,” Lakers coach Phil Jackson said in an article published Tuesday, Jan. 22, by the Pasadena Star-News. “This is a different team,” Jackson said of the Spurs. “This is a defensive team. Scores are low. We’re going to have to eke out points and hope we can defend them much better than the last time we were in San Antonio.”

And that’s exactly what Bryant intends to do, the all-star point guard told reporters.

“It’s going to be challenging,” Bryant said. “We lost two of our better defensive players (Bynum and Trevor Ariza), so we’re going to have to figure out how we’re going to have to combat that as a unit and really play the game mentally and be as prepared as possible.”

As Bryant and the gang works those details out in practice, Los Angeles fans should be working on trying to score a pair of Lakers tickets to this Texas triangle match up series. Don’t miss out on your chance to watch these games court side - visit Stubhub.com right now!

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