Lakers Playoff Schedule 2012: Series with Nuggets Destined to Go the Distance

The Los Angeles Lakers could have drawn the very team that swept them out of the postseason last year in the first round of this year's playoffs. But instead of the Dallas Mavericks, they drew the Denver Nuggets.

Hooray...?

Not exactly. The Nuggets are a dangerous team, and they played the Lakers tough in four games during the regular season. The Lakers won three of those four games, but they didn't win any of them by any more than six points. The Nuggets played them tough.

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