Los Angeles Lakers Can’t Allow Boston Celtics Rivalry to Eclipse Suns

It's not like the Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns haven't been trying.

The Lakers have been saying all the right things, talking about how the memory of their early exit in the Western Conference at the hands of the Suns during 2006 and 2007 playoffs still stings.

Of course, it was those early playoff exits that ushered in the Era of Bad Feelings, a time before Pau Gasol established himself as the shaggy but dominant inside complement to Kobe Bryant; when Kobe was pouting about the failure of management to surround him with players better than Smush Parker, instead of pouting for a photo spread; when the biggest offseason concern was whether the Buss family was going to have to blow up t...

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