The Los Angeles Lakers won their 15th NBA championship on Sunday night, beating the Orlando Magic in game 5 of the NBA Finals 99-86.
“It’s so tough to win championships,” Kobe Bryant said. Read the rest of this entry »
Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers are just one win away from winning the NBA title after they beat the Orlando Magic 99-91 in overtime on Thursday night.
“This is the toughest [loss] because it puts us down two games and on the brink of elimination and the mood was obviously very somber,” said Magic coach Stan Van Gundy. Read the rest of this entry »
The Orlando Magic won their first NBA finals game in franchise history on Tuesday night winning game 3 over the Los Angeles Lakers, 108-104.
Orlando made 63 percent of their shots, that’s an NBA finals record.
“Well, it was going in the basket. That always works,” Magic coach Stan Van Gundy said. Read the rest of this entry »
The Los Angeles Lakers beat the Orlando Magic 101-96 in overtime Sunday night to take a 2-0 lead in the NBA finals.
“We blew a lot of assignments tonight — a lot of assignments — and we still managed to get a win,” Bryant said immediately following the victory. Read the rest of this entry »
Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers looked impressive on Thursday night when they easily won game 1 of the NBA finals over the Orlando Magic, 100-75.
June 18th, 2008 by Brian Ethridge
Tagged as: Basketball, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, NBA, NBA Finals
As Sports Crunch predicted, the Boston Celtics have won their 17th NBA championship after destroying the Los Angeles Lakers 131-92 in game 6 of the NBA finals.
“It means so much more because these are the guys, the Havliceks, the Bill Russells, the Cousys,” MVP Paul Pierce said. “These guys started what’s going on with those banners. They don’t hang up any other banners but championship ones, and now I’m a part of it.” Read the rest of this entry »
June 16th, 2008 by Brian Ethridge
Tagged as: Basketball, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, NBA, NBA Finals
The Los Angeles Lakers beat the Boston Celtics in game 5 of the NBA finals 103-98 on Sunday night.
“We were aggressive. We played hard,” Lakers coach Phil Jackson said. “Not smart all the time, but we played hard.”
The Lakers didn’t play very well but it really didn’t matter because the Celtics played like absolute shit. Game 6 will be back in Boston on Tuesday night — Sports Crunch predicts a Celtics victory.
June 13th, 2008 by Brian Ethridge
Tagged as: Basketball, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, NBA, NBA Finals
The Boston Celtics came back after a 24-point deficit to beat the Los Angeles Lakers 97-91 in game 4 of the NBA Finals.
“We sucked it up,” Pierce said. “We said we weren’t going to back down. At the end of the third quarter I looked up at the scoreboard and told the fellas, ‘We just have to go out there and compete and let the chips fall where they may.”
The Celtics now lead the Lakers 3-1 in the series and will have a chance to win the Championship for the first time since 1986 with a victory on Fathers Day.
June 11th, 2008 by Brian Ethridge
Tagged as: Basketball, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, NBA, NBA Finals
Los Angeles Lakers beat the Boston Celtics 87-81 to win game 3 of the NBA finals.
“It was not a beautiful ballgame,” Lakers coach Phil Jackson said. “That’s a transition game from East Coast to West Coast. But we’ll have a day to catch up tomorrow and hopefully both of us will play better basketball on Thursday night.” Read the rest of this entry »
