Suns at Lakers Live Blog

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Los Angeles Lakers 99, Phoenix Suns 83
PHOENIX — It’s hard not to put much stock in tonight’s game between the Phoenix Suns and the Los Angeles Lakers. But for the Suns, it’s simply another game — an opportunity to bridge an iffy start into a winning streak.
“I don’t think it means anything other than a [...]

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I traded emails with Brian Kamenetzky from ESPN Los Angeles’ Land O’ Lakers blog to set the table for tonight’s showdown between the Suns and Lakers. Below Brian provides the latest on the Lakers as well as his analysis on tonight’s game. I answered his questions on the Suns over at ESPN LA.
Michael Schwartz: Andrew [...]

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Thursday will go down as a day that shook the NBA world.
The lockout officially ended with the players and owners ratifying the new 10-year labor deal and a decent point guard with two first names made his way over to Los Angeles and then didn’t in a trade possibility that threatens to blow up Twitter.
Closer to [...]

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Last week we looked at Denver, Portland, New Orleans, and Memphis in terms of their team identity. You can read that column here. Today we’ll look at the rest of the Western Conference playoff teams and see what, if anything, they can contribute to the Phoenix Suns’ identity crisis.
Oklahoma City
The Thunder were last season’s team [...]

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There’s a reason they call this time of year March Madness.
The Suns and Lakers played a game as wild as anything we saw in the NCAA Tournament this weekend, with the Lakers finally prevailing 139-137 in triple overtime of a contest neither team deserved to lose.
In a game of twists and turns, this one turned [...]

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