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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:50 pm    Post subject: Lakers in the News 6/9/10: Derek Fisher takes over in fourth

Derek Fisher takes over in fourth quarter as Los Angeles Lakers take Game three in Boston, 91-84
BY Frank Isola
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER

Wednesday, June 9th 2010, 12:02 AM


BOSTON - Paul Pierce's prediction was as off target as Ray Allen's aim Tuesday night.

And now the Boston Celtics could be in real trouble.

The Los Angeles Lakers regained control of the NBA Finals by shutting down Allen, shutting Pierce and holding off a late Celtics rally to win Game 3 91-84.

Kobe Bryant led the Lakers with 29 points on 29 shots and wasn't much of a factor in the fourth quarter. Instead, his long-time teammate and good friend, Derek Fisher, scored 11 of his 16 points in the final period, a performance that brought him to tears afterward.


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:54 pm    Post subject:

Fisher Keeps His Cool; Lakers Take the Lead

By JONATHAN ABRAMS
Published: June 9, 2010

Fisher had just fouled Rajon Rondo, who was a blur racing down court, carrying Boston’s hopes for a comeback in Game 3 of the N.B.A. finals. Instead of pouting, Fisher pounded his hands together. After the foul, Fisher scored his second basket of the game, then another on a drive and two more jumpers.

Each basket nudged the Celtics further back. They twice closed to within one point, but never surpassed the Lakers. Fisher ensured the victory by scoring 11 of his 16 points in the fourth quarter as the Lakers held off the Celtics, 91-84, Tuesday night to take a two-games-to-one lead. Game 4 will be played here Thursday.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:54 pm    Post subject:

Never Underestimate The Heart Of A Champion. Way To Go D. Fish.
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Never Underestimate The Heart Of A Champion. Way To Go D. Fish.



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:59 pm    Post subject:

Lakers defeat Celtics, 91-84
Derek Fisher scores 11 points in the fourth quarter of Game 3 as Lakers take 2-1 series lead in NBA Finals.


June 8, 2010 | 8:59 p.m.

BOSTON--Home-court advantage? What's that?

For the second time in three games, the visitor walked into unfriendly confines and walked out with a win. Tuesday night it was the Lakers stealing back the advantage they lost on Sunday with a 91-84 win over the Boston Celtics in Game 3 of the NBA Finals.

The Lakers lead the best-of-seven series 2-1. Games 4 and 5 will be Thursday and Sunday in the TD (Boston) Garden.

It was clear from the start that Kobe Bryant was here to play. He had that certain kind of intensity that usually results in an elevated performance not only from himself but his teammates as well.

But he cooled in the fourth quarter shooting one for six, but the one basket gave the Lakers a four-point lead with 1:41 left to play. Instead the Lakers looked to veteran Derek Fisher, who scored 11 points in the final quarter, including a three-point play with 48 seconds left to give the Lakers a seven-point lead and eventually the win.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:03 pm    Post subject:

Lakers win Game 3 of the NBA Finals, 91-84

By Michael Lee
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

BOSTON -- Nearly two years have passed since the Los Angeles Lakers played an NBA Finals game at TD Garden, but the memory remained fresh. They suffered a severe 39-point drubbing to the Boston Celtics, and had to watch Ray Allen rain down three-pointers, Paul Pierce shower Coach Doc Rivers with Gatorade, Kevin Garnett shed tears of joy as he kissed the parquet floor to celebrate the franchise's record 17th championship. Adding to the Lakers' humiliation were giddy Celtics fans who mobbed the team bus on the way out, shaking it and shouting taunts, contributing to a long ride to the airport.

The return trip was much more amenable for the Lakers, as they regained home-court advantage in this best-of-seven series with a 91-84 victory at TD Garden on Tuesday night. Kobe Bryant scored a game-high 29 points, but veteran point guard Derek Fisher bailed out his team, as he scored 11 of his 16 points in the fourth quarter to give the Lakers a 2-1 lead. Since the NBA moved to the 2-3-2 format in 1985, the team that has won Game 3 with the series tied 1-1 has won all 10 championships.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:07 pm    Post subject:

Bryant, Fisher lead Lakers to victory in Game 3

Kobe Bryant scored 29 points and Derek Fisher added 16 to lead Los Angeles to a 91-84 victory over the Boston Celtics on Tuesday and give the Lakers a 2-1 lead in the NBA finals.

Bryant had 25 points after three quarters, but did not score for the first 10 minutes of the fourth. That's when Fisher took over, adding four key baskets after Boston narrowed a 17-point first-half lead to one point.

The Lakers regained home-court advantage they had lost when Boston took Game 2 in Los Angeles.

Game 4 is Thursday night in Boston.

Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum had 10 rebounds each for Los Angeles.

Kevin Garnett, who had just six points in Boston's victory Sunday, made 25 in Game 3. But Ray Allen, who had 32 points in Game 2, missed all 13 field goal attempts.

The Celtics had high hopes after splitting the opening two games in Los Angeles, but the "Beat L.A.!" chants at the TD Garden couldn't help them overcome poor shooting.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:10 pm    Post subject:

Final: Lakers 91, Celtics 84

Posted by Gary Dzen, Boston.com Staff June 8, 2010 11:51 PM
If at first you don't succeed, try try again. And again?

One game after setting an NBA Finals record with eight three-pointers, Celtics guard Ray Allen narrowly missed tying the Finals record for most shots taken without a made basket, going 0 for 13 as the Celtics fell to the Lakers 91-84 in Game 3 of the NBA Finals Tuesday night.

Allen tried and tried again, but his 13th and final miss was the most crucial. With 54 seconds left and the Celtics down 84-80, Celtics coach Doc Rivers drew up a play for Allen. Allen sprinted to the corner and had a good look at a three-pointer, but the ball clanged off the back of the rim.

"We liked the motion, we liked the movement," Rivers said of the play for Allen's final shot. "Listen, he was open. I don't mind that shot at all."

With Allen's night officially a shutout, the Lakers converted on their next possession and shut the door on Game 3.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:13 pm    Post subject:

Kevin Garnett’s problems add up

Aint nothing like the real thing
By Gerry Callahan
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - Updated 10h ago

Boston Herald General Sports Columnist

He’s old. He’s tired. He’s hurt. He’s got more miles on him than Al Gore’s Gulfstream. He’s Willis Reed. He’s Willie Mays, circa 1973. He’s David Ortiz [stats], circa six weeks ago. He’s playing in slow motion, with his brilliant NBA career flashing before his eyes and the Eagles’ “Desperado” playing softly in the background.

These days it is nearly as painful to watch Kevin Garnett as it is to be Kevin Garnett. Theories are flying from all directions, none of them good. He appears to have a problem with his right knee and perhaps an issue with his left shoulder, and he’ll probably come away with a mild concussion when he slams his head into the stanchion just before tipoff tonight.

“Time passes and we all suffer it one way or another,” said the Lakers’ Pau Gasol, sounding like a member of the Washington press corps talking about that nasty old hag Helen Thomas.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 6:31 am    Post subject:

Lakers Get On Fisher's Back and Climb over Celtics

Posted by Chris Matyszczyk

According to legal papers filed by a marketing company, supermodel Naomi Campbell refused to climb the stairs at a promotional event when she discovered the elevator was broken.


In Game 3 of the NBA Finals, it was obvious that both teams had no automatic way to get to the third floor. They had few buttons to push and those that they did mostly left them between floors.

But, in the end, more Lakers than Celtics chose to take the strenuous route.

More Lakers than Celtics took off their high heels and trudged their way up in bare feet.

More Lakers than Celtics took the extra step and stretched the extra hamstring in order to ensure that, at the very worst, the Lakers will return to L.A. with a game to play.


Their 91-84 win at the TD Garden was Too Dour, Too Direct, Too Desperate for many neutrals to have let their hearts touch their top teeth.


But, this night, it was the fates of two old bald men that showed most clearly the difference between the two teams.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 6:37 am    Post subject:

Derek Fisher saves Lakers again

Veteran makes the big shots during the fourth quarter and helps the Lakers take a 2-1 series lead with a 91-84 victory over the Celtics.

By Mike Bresnahan

June 8, 2010 | 11:22 p.m.

Reporting from Boston -- Paul Pierce was wrong. The Boston Celtics weren't going to win the NBA Finals amid a blizzard of green and white confetti … if at all.

The Lakers made sure of it Tuesday with a pointed defensive declaration in Game 3, beating back Boston in a 91-84 victory with unlikely star Derek Fisher, a stunning reversal by Game 2 protagonist Ray Allen and, near the end, a rare smile from Kobe Bryant, as telling a sign as any that the series had tilted in the Lakers' direction.

The noise level at TD Garden was nonexistent, if that's ever possible, after the Lakers took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series. Game 4 on Thursday and Game 5 on Sunday are also in Boston, but the Lakers regained home-court advantage despite Pierce's late proclamation in Game 2 that the Celtics "ain't coming back to L.A."
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 6:41 am    Post subject:

Fish & Kobe: co-workers and co-winners

By KEVIN DING
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kding _at_ ocregister.com

BOSTON – When you live as far from each other as they do – Derek Fisher up in Calabasas and Kobe Bryant an hour and a half away in Newport Coast – you’d better have creative ways of getting together to maintain the friendship.

Well, these guys work together, literally and figuratively..

The way it went down evoked memories of Game 4 of the 2009 NBA Finals. Same as in this victory to give the Lakers a 2-1 lead in the 2010 NBA Finals, Bryant on that night didn’t have his best game and Fisher stepped up – stepping into those two monumental 3-point shots when Orlando double-teamed Bryant in the post.

But there’s another Game 4 of the NBA Finals that Fisher remembers just as well.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 6:44 am    Post subject:

Ray Allen returns to earth, so do Celtics
By MARK WHICKER
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mwhicker -at- ocregister.comStory Highlights
Game story: Lakers win Game 3 in hostile arena

Article Videos BOSTON – This, Ray Allen said, is why you stay humble if you're a shooter. Not to say that all that many shooters do.

For all his adult life and most of his adolescence, Allen's wrist has been the surest thing on whatever court he occupied. The stroke, they call it.

Lamar shooting through a chant of "Ugly sister," Kobe hugging his dad and Ron's third-person postgame spin
In his regular season career he has made 2,444 3-point shots, at a percentage of 39.6.

When it's going in, Allen is almost into his backpedal before the ball swishes through. When it isn't, he's anxiously moving to where the rebound might be, or he's twisting like a golfer on the tee when he sees a drive headed toward the foliage.

In L.A. on Sunday night, Allen set the NBA Finals record for most consecutive 3-pointers and most 3-pointers made. In Boston on Tuesday night Allen went 0 for 13 from the floor. That's from the 2-point and the 3-point areas.

The Celtics won Sunday night. They lost here, 91-84, and now the Lakers lead the series, 2-1, and, at the very least, will bring the series back to Staples Center.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 6:53 pm    Post subject:

Impact of Lakers' little big man Fisher can't be measured on court

Fisher, a 6-3 non-traditional point guard for the Lakers in his 14th season, has four championship rings. The repeated clutch shots throughout his career, including in the fourth quarter of Tuesday's 91-84 win against the Boston Celtics, have defined him.


"It's his character, his personality, just desire to win and the experience that he has," Lakers power forward Pau Gasol said.

Fisher has flourished in coach Phil Jackson's triple-post offense, which plays to his strengths (shooting) rather than driving and creating for teammates the way the Celtics' Rajon Rondo does.

Fisher scored 16 points in Game 3, filling in the blanks when Kobe Bryant couldn't.

Fisher gave a speech in the huddle that rallied the Lakers, who had a 17-point lead cut to 67-61 going into the fourth quarter. He scored the team's first field goal in the fourth on a drive to keep the Lakers ahead 70-67. He then scored six of the next eight points — and was teary-eyed after the win.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 6:56 pm    Post subject:

Lakers realize Odom’s value to bottom line

By Marc J. Spears, Yahoo! Sports
Email Print BOSTON – Lamar Odom(notes) walked out of the Los Angeles Lakers’ locker room late Tuesday and into the arms of rapper Beanie Sigel. Sigel is regarded as one of hip-hop’s preeminent lyricists, even though he has yet to rival the fame of his former mentor Jay-Z. He also happens to be a Lakers fan and a fan of Odom in particular.

Odom’s “lexicon is broad, and it’s just like the boat I’m in,” Sigel said after he and his entourage greeted the Lakers forward following Game 3 of the NBA Finals. “I can’t sacrifice my integrity to make songs like, ‘Where dey do dat, whey dey do’ or just simple stuff because that’s not in me to do that type of record. And I think [Odom] is real underappreciated because people can’t differentiate his talent.”
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 6:58 pm    Post subject:

Lakers benefit from defense and D-Fish
A harassing style and Derek Fisher's clutch play have helped L.A. to a 2-1 lead over the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals.

Lakers guard Derek Fisher, left, gets off a shot after driving past Boston guard Paul Pierce during the Lakers' 91-84 victory in Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times / June 8, 2010)

June 9, 2010 | 5:47 p.m.

Reporting from Boston -- Twelve hours had passed since Derek Fisher reinvigorated a franchise with nine minutes he'll remember forever, but the Lakers were back at work Wednesday, treading somewhere between cautious and confident, knowing the Boston Celtics weren't done yet but definitely feeling the sting of a defense that continued to govern the NBA Finals.

The Lakers met for a brief practice on what happened to be the 25th anniversary of their first championship victory over the Celtics, a time that will eternally live in the eyes of the organization.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:17 pm    Post subject:

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Since the NBA moved to the 2-3-2 format in 1985, the team that has won Game 3 with the series tied 1-1 has won all 10 championships.



This is the one thing in all of that news that stuck in my head.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:28 pm    Post subject:

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