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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
Dwight Howard 's arrival to the Lakers doesn't just bring promise of collecting his first NBA championship. It also gives him an opportunity to join the organization's esteemed fraternity of centers. That includes one of the pioneers of pro...
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Contra Costa Times
| 9 months ago
Yep, even when Warriors management works coolly and wisely (as it has of late), the Warriors are mostly building credibility; the Lakers build dynasties. But let's not go overboard on the Lakers' recent mega-acquisitions of Dwight Howard and Steve...
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Daily Breeze
| 9 months ago
Questions/Answers Questions and answers on Daily News stories from readers like you. Former Philadelphia guard Meeks added; forward Ebanks re-signs Posted: 08/13/2012 10:19:47 PM PDT Updated: 08/13/2012 11:19:09 PM PDT Small forward Matt Barnes...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Articles The numbers alone present a well-rounded team that expects to compete for another NBA title...Age and chemistry will play deciding roles in the upcoming season for the Lakers. Four of the five L.A. starters are at least 32 or older. As...
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ESPN
| 9 months ago
Los Angeles Lakers executives Mitch Kupchak and Jim Buss are set to begin their respective vacations this week after a busy summer that saw the team pull off two blockbuster deals to acquire Steve Nash and Dwight Howard , but before the lights went...
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Newton Daily News
| 9 months ago
The United States has a new group of scrappy underdogs who overcame incredible odds to win an Olympic gold medal. This means everything, said LeBron James, a feisty young basketball player from Ohio...This gritty, plucky band of brothers staged a...
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Japan Times
| 9 months ago
Between them, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James have scored more than 48,000 points in their NBA careers. They both had steady, solid performances in Team USA's gold medal-winning 107-100 victory over Spain on Sunday at North Greenwich Arena, but Kevin...
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Sun Sentinel
| 9 months ago
And as a matter of concern. Appearing on the debut of the Sid Rosenberg Show on 640 Sports, Riley said Monday he felt dual emotions watching his star forward defeat Spain in Sunday's gold-medal game. "I think both Micky and I had a great sigh of...
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Las Vegas Review-Journal / Sun
| 9 months ago
This is what happens when some become incredibly rich and successful. They are often single-minded in scope, never considering the alternative to something they believe a business opportunity that will line their pockets even more. They can't see the...
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The Journal Gazette
| 9 months ago
They were pushed, because Spain boasts an outstanding basketball team and Americans long ago lost the ability to just roll the ball out to the middle of the floor, chuck up some shots and assume they'll win. They could do that 20 years ago, when the ...
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Orlando Sentinel Online
| 9 months ago
You get to play in the City of Angels with the greatest competitor on the planet since Michael Jordan . You get to high-five Jack Nicholson every home game at court-side. You get to leave our Podunk little village and literally become the biggest...
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GMA News
| 9 months ago
In the aftermath of their Olympic gold medal triumph over Spain on Sunday, the US Dream Team of NBA stars began looking to the future, one that will not include Kobe Bryant or coach Mike Krzyzewski. The US squad defeated Spain 107-100 to defend the...
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Epoch Times
| 9 months ago
AFP/GettyImages) Another year, another well-earned golden ending for men's basketball. The U.S. team, for the second straight Olympics, fought off a tough Spanish squad in the gold medal final for a 107100 win...In that 2008 game the U.S. fought...
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Sun Sentinel
| 9 months ago
South Florida Sun Sentinel LeBron James swung for the fences this year. The Miami Heat All-Star forward now has his grand slam. With the United States' 107-100 victory Sunday over Spain in the Olympic gold-medal game in London, James became just...
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NY Daily News
| 9 months ago
Whether they are on the level of the one and only Dream Team is debatable. One thing is for certain, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird never had competition quite like this at the Olympics. But 20 years after the NBA took the stage in...
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Bradenton Herald
| 9 months ago
Slowly but certainly, as the league gets used to the Los Angeles Lakers moving back toward the forefront, NBA players are voicing more opinions about the Dwight Howard trade. After a slew of "no comments" Friday, Team USA players were more open...
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The Fresno Bee
| 9 months ago
53 PM Text Size: tool goes here Enter the Warzone, shady even when it's 109. Brilliant move by the Los Angeles Lakers to acquire Dwight Howard without giving up their entire front line. Now the question becomes whether Howard joins the pantheon of...
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SF Gate
| 9 months ago
When it comes to NBC's coverage of the Olympics, the basketball tournament has been a two-week afterthought...I subscribe to both DirecTV and Comcast for job-related reasons, and I've been taping four channels a day since the Olympics began...I have...
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Chandler Republic
| 9 months ago
The Republic azcentral.com Most teams in the NBA undertake rebuilding projects knowing the hope of becoming a title contender lies years away. The Lakers, disappointed by two consecutive second-round playoff exits, became a championship favorite with...
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NY Daily News
| 9 months ago
Either Kobe Bryant or Pau Gasol is taking a gold medal back to Los Angeles, and yet regardless of the result in Sunday's final between the U.S. and Spain, the two friends and teammates will both feel like winners. Back surgery forced Dwight Howard to...
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Orlando Sentinel Online
| 9 months ago
August 11, 2012 Brian Schmitz , Magic Insider Now comes the hard part for Dwight Howard in his Orlando-to-L.A. reassignment, whether he realizes it or not. He has to adjust to being a warm-up act for Kobe Bryant , more sidekick than main man. He has...
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Orlando Sentinel Online
| 9 months ago
Two are second-round picks (one of them protected and conditional). Here is a breakdown of each of those picks, specifically explaining the conditions that apply to each one: The Nuggets have two first-round picks in 2014: their own pick and a pick...
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USA Today
| 9 months ago
On a stacked roster, a lack of depth in the frontcourt is the most obvious shortcoming of the U.S. men's basketball team. It wasn't expected to be a problem here until they faced 7-foot brothers Marc and Pau Gasol of Spain, their opponent in Sunday's...
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Sun Sentinel
| 9 months ago
Now we're talking Howard and Steve Nash . That makes adding a truer center than Bosh essential, since the gimmickry of fronting might not prove nearly as effective. But it also doesn't mean having to rush into a marriage with a Darko Milicic or...
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NY Daily News
| 9 months ago
Kobe Bryant stuck gold without even having to play for an Olympic medal. With the United States men's basketball team one win away from a second straight gold medal, Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers may have added the final piece to a championship...
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Las Vegas Review-Journal / Sun
| 9 months ago
The surreal scene of an Olympic media mixed zone after a basketball game between the United States and Argentina on Friday evening: At one end was Kevin Love, an NBA star who has talked openly about his frustrations with ownership of the Minnesota...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 9 months ago
United States' Kobe Bryant, right, Los Angeles Lakers teammates Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol will face off when the United States takes on Spain for the gold medal on Sunday. While both aspire to take home a gold for their respective countries, on...
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Chandler Republic
| 9 months ago
As players from Spain stretched on the court before the first semifinal, a breathless reporter broke the big news to Pau Gasol, that Dwight Howard was officially a member of the Lakers. "Craig Sager came to me before the game, chasing me," Gasol said.
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Daily Breeze
| 9 months ago
08/10/2012 11:24:14 PM PDT Dwight Howard smiled and laughed and did a fine impression of Kobe Bryant. He wouldn't talk about signing a contract extension with the Lakers, however. Howard talked about the recruiting job Lakers fans did on him for four...
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Daily Breeze
| 9 months ago
Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak walked into coach Mike Brown's office Thursday night with news of the blockbuster deal he'd just completed. Kupchak should've entered with a cartwheel, but he's too tall and his back would probably scream at him...
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Sacramento Bee
| 9 months ago
After Thursday's blockbuster deal, the Lakers' big four Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, Pau Gasol and Steve Nash are all Olympians, either current or past. Add Ron Artest to the starting five, and these Lakers would give this year's U.S. men's team a...
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International Herald Tribune
| 9 months ago
Liberty After asking the Orlando Magic to trade him to the Nets last fall, reversing himself to opt in with the Magic last spring, then again asking to be traded to the Nets even after the Magic fired Coach Stan Van Gundy and forced General Manager...
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KSBY
| 9 months ago
General Manager Mitch Kupchak introduced his center Dwight Howard...He averaged 20.6 points, 14.5 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game last year for the Orlando Magic. The press conference marked the last act of his long, drawn-out departure from...
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Baltimore Sun
| 9 months ago
Any time you're trading one of the best players in the league, that's a hard pill to swallow, especially when we live in a world of instancy and immediate gratification. But what we're trying to build here in a lot of ways is the antithesis of that.
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The Orange County Register
| 9 months ago
The latest superstar to join Lakers history was smiling broadly on his first day with the franchise, offering a spot-on imitation of Kobe Bryant from their phone conversation the previous night and leaving Lakers executive vice president Jim Buss'...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
The stunning trade that brought Dwight Howard to the Lakers this week did more than bolster the team's chances for a championship next season it arguably transformed Los Angeles into the epicenter of professional basketball. As the NBA 's preeminent...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
On the day Dwight Howard became the newest Laker, their legendary star anointed him as the next Kobe Bryant. Dwight Howard's Magic days "Look, I'm going to play two, maybe three more years then the team is his," Bryant said Friday night. "I'm excited...
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International Herald Tribune
| 9 months ago
The Orlando Magic seemingly had better options than the four-team trade that sent Dwight Howard to Los Angeles for a package of good-but-not-great players and three first-round picks of limited potential. The Magic gained some serenity but lost in...
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Star Phoenix
| 9 months ago
Not here, and not in the NBA, which hijacked the Olympics on Friday. The United States played Argentina in the Olympic semifinal, and Argentina was within five points early in the third quarter, and Argentina got its doors blown clean off. Kobe...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 9 months ago
The biggest trade of the NBA offseason didn't seem to distract the U.S. men's basketball team at all Friday as it thumped Argentina 109-83 to reach Sunday's gold-medal game. But the massive trade certainly gave everyone something to talk about after...
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Summit Daily News
| 9 months ago
United States' Andre Iguodala reacts after slaming a dunk during a preliminary men's basketball game against Argentina at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 6, 2012, in London...It took four teams, 11 other players, five draft picks and countless...
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GMA News
| 9 months ago
Spanish center Pau Gasol was excited about the prospects of playing alongside NBA superstar Dwight Howard after learning on Friday that he All-Star center was coming to the Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers completed a 12-player, four-team NBA deal...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 9 months ago
The Los Angeles Lakers have acquired six-times All-Star Dwight Howard from the Orlando Magic as part of a four-team, 12-player deal including the Denver Nuggets and Philadelphia 76ers, the NBA teams said on Friday. The deal thrusts the Lakers back...
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ESPN
| 9 months ago
Gasol admitted that he struggled to keep his focus fully on Spain's victory. "It was hard for me to block it out completely," Gasol said. While insisting that he was trying as hard as he could to concentrate on Spain's attempt to go one step farther...
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The Orange County Register
| 9 months ago
42 am · It's official Dwight Howard is a Laker...More importantly, perhaps, he stayed healthy all season, something he has strugged with during his first seven NBA seasons. We'd like to thank Andrew for all he's done for the team and the organization,...
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TMZ
| 9 months ago
NBA Approves Lakers Deal Breaking News Dwight Howard is officially suiting up for the Los Angeles Lakers -- the NBA approved the 4-team trade that finally gets him out of Orlando and into the purple and gold. General managers for the Lakers, Magic,...
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GMA News
| 9 months ago
The 33-year-old Bryant, currently part of the United States men's basketball team playing in the London Olympics, also said, "I know LA is excited about the deal and rightfully so. "The Lakers landed a piece that will hopefully carry the franchise...
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Orlando Sentinel Online
| 9 months ago
The Dwight Howard drama is over with Thursday's blockbuster trade (pending league approval.) Our National Dwightmare is over at least that's what everybody says outside of Orlando...Like Shaq 's exit, it will never ever leave a Magic fan's...
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Orlando Sentinel Online
| 9 months ago
Green, Orlando Sentinel ) Sixteen years after Shaquille O'Neal left the Orlando Magic via free agency for the Los Angeles Lakers , another superstar Magic center appears to be headed to Southern California. The Magic, Lakers, Denver Nuggets and...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
Names change, the locker room moves, but as they shouted to the world on a lazy day in the middle of summer, the Lakers are still the Lakers...They pick up the phone and quietly steal Steve Nash from everybody. And now this, Thursday's era-shaker, a...
