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Lakers 111, Nuggets 107

December 5th, 2007, 8:53 pm · 3 Comments · posted by KEVIN DING, OCREGISTER.COM

DENVER – Kobe Bryant took a deep breath, blew by J.R. Smith, eluded Marcus Camby and stuck the jump shot.

Bryant had scored the Lakers’ two baskets before that, too. And with Bryant pitching like the closer he loves being, the Lakers overcame Allen Iverson’s 51 points and seven assists Wednesday night.

Bryant’s final jumper gave the Lakers a 108-104 lead with 35.3 seconds left. He overcame fatigue from games on back-to-back nights despite a stomach ailment and a bruised left shoulder that forced him from the game late in the first quarter to have 25 points, eight rebounds and five assists.

Vladimir Radmanovic (21 points), Derek Fisher (20) and Lamar Odom (17) offered great support. Iverson had just two points in the fourth quarter.

QUOTABLE

Phil Jackson on the NBA’s new rule requiring coaches to wear microphones for nationally televised games: “It’s very Big Brother-ish. It’s very intimidating.”

THE STOPPER?

Trevor Ariza made an impact for the second consecutive night, getting assigned to guard the torrid Iverson to start the fourth quarter. The 6-foot Iverson didn’t score on the 6-foot-8 Ariza the whole time Ariza was in the game; he exited with five minutes to play.

“KO-BE”

With 1:39 to play, the Lakers’ fans in attendance summoned a chant of “Ko-be” before it was drowned out by boos by Denver fans. This is the Lakers’ only trip to Colorado this season.

NEXT

Golden State at Lakers, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, FSN, KLAC/570

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3 Responses to “Lakers 111, Nuggets 107”

  1. J Hazard Says:
    December 6th, 2007 at 1:29 pm

    After watchung last night’s game the NBA still has a lot of work to do cleaning up officiating in their league. Allen Iverson for some reason owns the NBA refs. He instigates more contact, fakes more fouls and gets away with traveling violations more than any player in the league. Why? that 4th foul call on Kobe was baloney. Sorry NBA you still have officials who call the game as they please and to hell with the rules.

  2. nwhatdheck Says:
    December 7th, 2007 at 5:12 am

    Ref’s call… that’s the way it is! The laker team must live with it. A great team should always adopt in any way they can and ignore situational badcalls. The teams must rember that whinning will always not be the best answer to a bad call, it is the focus to something they were doing or should be doing ang that is to play ball..

  3. LakerSince72 Says:
    December 7th, 2007 at 4:39 pm

    I hear you loud and clear J Hazzard. I’ve become increasingly frustrated with the lack of consistency with NBA ref calls. There was one play when a post player for Dever camped in the lane for no less than 5 seconds to receive an alley-oop (cant remember which Nugget). Their aversion to making calls for rookies and the end of quarters is very frustrating as well.
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