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Have you ever seen those beef jerky commercials where the campers mess with Sasquatch? That’s Phil Jackson and the Miami Heat. The Zen Master took out his stick yesterday and poked the bear a bit, suggesting more than talent goes into winning a title. LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh? ...

Paul Pierce is eager to help Shaquille O'Neal catch up to Kobe Bryant. Pierce enthusiastically endorsed the Boston Celtics' decision to sign O'Neal after Pierce's No. 34 jersey was retired at Inglewood High School on Tuesday. Boston owner Wyc Grousbeck said the Celtics decided to pursue O'Neal ...

Andrew Bynum popped champagne in the middle of the hallway outside the Lakers locker room. Ron Artest lost his voice, screaming at the top of his lungs while clutching what the Lakers had worked for all season. But the moment that may very well stand out was the image ...

Rajon Rondo was cut on the chin compliments of a Ron Artest elbow. Kendrick Perkins had to be helped off the court thanks to a Pau Gasol and Kobe Bryant sandwich. Paul Pierce wound up on his back time and time again in large part because of the Lakers' ...

This was everything you could have wanted from an NBA Finals game. It was physical. It was competitive. And it featured two teams playing different enough styles to engender after-the-fact discourse about who was playing the "right way". Tonight, the "right way" was the path taken by ...

If it wasn't already apparent, this is not the same series as the 2008 Finals. Mostly because of the Los Angeles Lakers. In their 91-84 Game 3 victory, the Lakers, both as individuals and collectively, fought through a litany of situations that would have left them reeling ...

This was the earlier Rajon Rondo of the NBA playoffs. This was the one who declared himself the best point guard in the league. Not the one who came up lame in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. This was the all-around Rondo, who had a series of huge ...

The talk coming into the game circled around how the Celtics' defense may rival that of the 2008 championship team. On Thursday, the Lakers showed their rendition of defense. They took charges. They caused deflections. They altered and rejected shots inside. In short, they frustrated Boston. That defense coupled ...

Phil Jackson wants a better sustained effort from the Lakers against the Oklahoma City Thunder. He got it for one quarter in the playoff opener, then watched the defending champions lose energy the rest of the way. The Lakers won 87-79 Sunday mostly on the strength of their ...

Kobe Bryant may have just inked his way to being a Laker for life. On Friday, the 31-year-old guard signed a three-year extension that will put him in a Lakers uniform through the 2013-14 season. "My position all along -- and I've mentioned many times -- is that Kobe ...