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If the pages on the calendar had been flipped to a month ago in Houston, or even a couple of weeks ago in Denver, maybe there would be reason to worry. Those were the Lakers that did more mailing it in than the throngs at the post office on April ...

After playing two horrible games in Los Angeles, you probably couldn't have made Magic point guard Rafer Alston smile if you showed him a photo album full of kids playing with puppies. But late in the third quarter, ...

Missing for two games, Orlando found its Magic touch. Making easy shots and tough ones from everywhere, the Magic won their first game in two visits to the NBA finals as Dwight Howard and Rashard Lewis scored 21 points apiece in a 108-104 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers in Game ...

Kobe Bryant has changed his look. Gone is the teeth-baring, nose-flaring, eyes-on-the-prize scowl that the Los Angeles Lakers star showed again and again in Game 1 of the NBA finals. The intensity diminished after Game 2, his expression morphing into one of relief and sheer luck. A botched layup by Magic ...

Kobe Bryant drives around Orlando's Courtney Lee during Game 2. ...

Lucky to have a second chance, the Los Angeles Lakers grabbed it. Kobe Bryant and Co. held on and are in control of the NBA finals - just barely. Orlando rookie Courtney Lee missed a potential winning layup as regulation ended, giving Los Angeles another shot it didn't waste. Pau Gasol scored ...

Behind Kobe Bryant's stone-faced mask and the icy grimace he's wearing in these finals, his eyes are laser locked on one target: His fourth NBA title. His vision is so narrow, so sharp that he can't think about anything but a shiny championship trophy now close enough to touch. To him, these ...

Kobe Bryant owns more championship experience in his dislocated right ring finger than any of the Magic of record. Let's not even start with the rest of his body. Bryant grabbed hold of The Finals opener and squeezed the fight out of Orlando, seizing the early series lead for the Lakers with ...

Pau Gasol finishes strong at the basket with a dunk during Game 1. In his first action in the ...

Kobe Bryant has waited a year, a long year, for another chance at NBA title. He's not about to let this one slip away. The Olympic gold medal was nice. Not nearly enough. He covets another golden trophy. "I just want it so bad, that's all,'' Bryant said. "I just want it really ...