Lakers Still 'Lucky' Against Setting Suns

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LOS ANGELES -- Look up in the Staples Center rafters, where 15 championship banners hang. It's got to be luck, right?



Well, maybe the last 10 of them.



In 1960, the Minneapolis Lakers moved after having won five titles in the 1950s. They could have gone somewhere like Schenectady, NY or Des Moines, Iowa.



But, no, they moved to Los Angeles. And all those star big men eventually came to sunny Southern California through free agency (Shaquille O'Neal) or trade requests (Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar).



Evidently, they're just perpetually lucky out here (it is called the City of Angels). After all, why else would Phoenix forward Amar'e Stoudemire say Lakers forward Lamar Odom was "lucky'' in grabbing 19 rebounds in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals?



In Wednesday's Game 2, the big statistic was guard Kobe Bryant handing out a career playoff-high 13 assists in the Lakers' 124-112 win, which gave them a 2-0 series lead. While no Phoenix player was heard to say Bryant was lucky, wasn't he? After all, look at all the guys who somehow made shots after Bryant passed the ball.

 

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