Summary
LOS ANGELES - If the Shaquille O'Neal trade this summer was, as San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich insists, the basketball equivalent to the end of the Soviet Union, then Friday night's Lakers/Spurs game was the first chance at establishing a new world order.
After the Lakers' 105-96 loss at Staples Center, a better analogy for the rivalry between Western Conference standard bearers might be that of the United States and China, the existing superpower and the one racing to close the gap.See the full content of this document
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Spurs Hold Off Lakers
The Spurs dissected the Lakers in the second quarter, finding the open man at ease, and rolling to a 16-point lead amid a barrage of uncontested layups and dunks. Ti...
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