NBA Playoffs 2012: Can the Lakers Beat the Thunder?

Peace be with you.  And also with you.  All hail the return of Metta World Peace.  The Lakers finally closed out Denver in Game 7.  A task they should have done two games ago.  

But the series stretched to 7 because of the inexcusable lack of effort in Games 5 and 6.  Especially Game 6.  Kobe Bryant battled a terrible stomach bug all day game day and still showed up to play. Which is more than I can say for Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol.  Bryant was so severely dehydrated that he needed four IVs just to make it through his own flu game. But Bynum and Gasol were ...

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