RAY ALLEN SWUNG BACK TO THE CORNER as he caught the ball seeing as Kobe was late on his rotation. As he blew by the Black Mamba, he notices that Lamar Odom was ready to help in the paint.
Reading this, he immediately stops and pulls up from the short corner. As his fingers flicked and the ball went high, it swishes.
61 CELTICS 58 LAKERS
"It was a tough game. Like, these scoring numbers were something you'd see by half time in today's game." Derek Fisher said, seated on his white couch in the middle of the living room, "It just goes to show how intense we all were coming into this. Both teams were all thrown off by just how amazing we all were on defense."
"Kobe was off this game right?"
"Oh, yeah. He couldn't knock it down as usual and he was off. But being the fierce competitor he was, he tried affecting the game in other ways by getting boards instead as another way to create opportunities. I think he had like. . . was it 16 or 17?"
"15 rebounds."
"Well, there you go. It was impressive. This was a 6'6 dude who was soaring over guys like KG, Pau, and Lamar." Derek said with a genuinely astonished tone as he looked back at the fond memory, "Even though he was off, he was willing to help the team out in any way. It just goes to show how much he wanted this. We were lucky enough to still be able to keep it close while he was off."
"With Kobe off, who do you think was the X Factor of this game?"
"Raja."
Pau Gasol was backing down Big Baby Davis but was unable to figure out how he could get a shot up of his own as he noticed the clogged painted area.
But in the corner of his eye, he sees Raja cut to him. Pau immediately dishes it to theL/Nbefore the latter gets hit by Paul Pierce square in the chest with his shoulder and puts up the shot.
As the ball went up in the air, the whistle blows and the ball gets into the net, causing an uproar in the Staples Center.
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