Orange County Register

LOS ANGELES - Do not adjust your TV.

The Lakers are actually playing team basketball without the scoring domination of Kobe Bryant.

Either Bryant has been content to defer to his teammates, or Boston has bottled him. Whatever the case, it’s working for the Lakers, who have 15 assists on 19 baskets.

Bryant is 0-for-4 with three points and six assists.

To invoke a 1970s term, the Celtics totally harshed the Lakers’ mellow with a 12-0 run. But Jordan Farmar hit a running 3-pointer at the buzzer.

Even Justin Timberlake got up to dance.

Boston is shooting 35.1 percent to the Lakers’ 50.0 percent.

This won’t hold up, will it?

–Curtis Zupke, The Orange County Register

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