Houston We Have a Problem: Los Angeles Lakers Propel to Defy Logic

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It drew our awareness in Game 2 of the 2009 NBA playoffs when irritable mood swings flared into a physical skirmish between the Lakers and Rockets. It was like a wrestling match and things turned warlike with massive forearms thrown, hard fouls, trash talk and a short tempered Ron Artest getting in the face of Kobe Bryant. It drew our interest as it seemed this was actuality a series the Lakers in likelihood could lose. For awhile, Houston was more physical, more anxious, more driven and more perilous. It led to assertive talk on if the Lakers weren’t as good as the paper shows, which reinforced chatter about the R...

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