NBA Fact and Fiction: Are the Los Angeles Lakers Really This Good?

The Los Angeles Lakers have an early season look of a team on a mission, and their 124-105 demolition of the Memphis Grizzlies on Tuesday night provided another illustration of why they will be so tough to beat in June.

Popular theory says the best way to defeat the Lakers will be to turn every contest into a track meet, and the Grizzlies followed that blueprint and were promptly run out of the Staples Center.

Los Angeles led 73-46 at halftime and the 27-point margin at the intermission does little to justify how thoroughly dominant the Lakers were against a pretty good Memphis team.

The strength of the Lakers team is in their frontcourt, and even without the injured Andrew Bynum, t...

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