SEATTLE – It’s awfully fun to be a Laker these days. Sunday night started with Jordan Farmar, Sasha Vujacic and Ronny Turiaf linking arms and dancing in front of the bench upon seeing Lamar Odom make a nifty right-handed finish. It stayed all good from there – Kobe Bryant’s third-quarter ejection hardly mattered – with a rout of the SuperSonics that gave the Lakers sole possession of the Western Conference lead.
Bryant had 21 points and 10 assists in 26 minutes. Pau Gasol’s crazy accuracy in the triangle offense continued with a 10-for-18 field-goal effort; he had 22 points and seven rebounds.
Odom continued his hot play with 19 points and 11 rebounds. The Lakers even got a glimpse of the old Luke Walton, who had 11 points, seven rebounds and six assists in 40 minutes.
BRYANT’S CHIN
Bryant punched the ball to the floor and had it bounce back up and hit him in the chin when there was no foul call as Kevin Durant hit his arm on a Bryant drive. But veteran referee Mike Callahan eventually made the call from behind after Pat Fraher and Brian Forte, two of the NBA’s weaker referees, missed it.
EJECTED BRYANT
Bryant was ejected with 4:00 left in the third quarter after drawing two technical fouls from Forte for arguing. The Lakers led, 88-57, at the time.
RADMANOVIC SITS
Vladimir Radmanovic (calf) didn’t suit up for the game, and his return is unclear, with Phil Jackson saying: “We hope it’s day to day.”
NEXT
Portland at Lakers, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, FSN, KLAC/570

Posted in: 2007-08 • Game reports |

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.