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                    [Title] => Going for a four-peat
                    [Summary] => Coach Phil Jackson must be relieved. The three-time defending champion Los Angeles Lakers are safely back in the National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs with only eight games left in their regular season schedule.


But will the Lakers go all the way to the Finals?


From indications, it looks like the Lakers will wind up No. 7 in the Western Conference, meaning they’ll face the No. 2 team, most likely the Sacramento Kings, in the first round unless the San Antonio Spurs kick up a late storm.


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                    [Title] => Are Lakers playing possum?
                    [Summary] => If the National Basketball Association (NBA) ended its regular season today, the three-time defending champion Los Angeles Lakers wouldn’t qualify for the playoffs.  They’d be in the running for the first overall pick as a lottery team but not for a fourth straight title.


The Lakers are struggling in the Pacific Division where bitter rival Sacramento is lording it over with a 22-8 record.  The Tinseltown squad is 10 1/2 games behind the Kings and ranks a lowly sixth in the seven-team division.  


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                    [Summary] => Fans are talking about the Los Angeles Lakers going four-ward in the National Basketball Association (NBA) next season but if coach Phil Jackson hopes to add another title to his growing collection, he's got to seriously consider shaking up his roster.


Not that Jackson's shopping around Shaquille O'Neal or Kobe Bryant. They're as untouchable in the Lakers organization as Jackson himself. Shaq, Kobe, and Jackson form the club’s balance of power — the perfect trinity.  They represent the triangle that is the Lakers' pillar of strength.


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                    [Title] => The Los Angeles Lakers, say that with pizzazz / COPA TV debate - HERE'S THE SCORE by Teodoro C. Benigno
                    [Summary] => As the Chicago Bulls did with Michael Jordan, the Los Angeles Lakers of the year 2001 bid fair  to grab center ring as one of the greatest in NBA history. How’s that again? This columnist, partly in sadness with the retirement of Jordan, partly because no team or player since then had ever caught my fancy, moved to the back pews. There was little I could write about the post-Jordan NBA. I had always sought the best. I wanted a Babe Ruth or a Mark McGwire, a Pele, a Pete Sampras, a Tiger Woods, a Muhammad Ali, a Martina Navratilova.


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                    [Title] => Lakers’ unsung hero
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Lakers overhaul imminent

By Joaquin M. Henson | May 22, 2003 - 12:00am

The Los Angeles Lakers bowed out of the National Basketball Association (NBA) season with a whimper last Thursday. It was so uncharacteristic of the Lakers to surrender their throne without much of a fight. And they...

Sports

Going for a four-peat

By Joaquin M. Henson | April 3, 2003 - 12:00am

Coach Phil Jackson must be relieved. The three-time defending champion Los Angeles Lakers are safely back in the National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs with only eight games left in their regular season schedule. But...

Sports

Are Lakers playing possum?

By Joaquin M. Henson | December 26, 2002 - 12:00am

If the National Basketball Association (NBA) ended its regular season today, the three-time defending champion Los Angeles Lakers wouldn’t qualify for the playoffs. They’d be in the running for the first...

Sports

Lakers to revamp?

By Joaquin M. Henson | June 18, 2002 - 12:00am

Fans are talking about the Los Angeles Lakers going four-ward in the National Basketball Association (NBA) next season but if coach Phil Jackson hopes to add another title to his growing collection, he's got to seriously...

Sports

The Los Angeles Lakers, say that with pizzazz / COPA TV debate - HERE'S THE SCORE by Teodoro C. Benigno

June 18, 2001 - 12:00am

As the Chicago Bulls did with Michael Jordan, the Los Angeles Lakers of the year 2001 bid fair to grab center ring as one of the greatest in NBA history. How’s that again? This columnist, partly in sadness...

Opinion

Lakers’ unsung hero

By Joaquin M. Henson | May 29, 2001 - 12:00am

Now that the Los Angeles Lakers are rolling to accomplish the inevitable in the National Basketball Association (NBA), skeptics like me are eating their words on a plate of humble pie.

Sports

Lakers’ unsung hero - SPORTING CHANCE by Joaquin M. Henson

May 29, 2001 - 12:00am

Now that the Los Angeles Lakers are rolling to accomplish the inevitable in the National Basketball Association (NBA), skeptics like me are eating their words on a plate of humble pie.

Sports