Play the Lakers, get an education

 
By Berry Tramel | Published: April 22, 2010    Comment on this article Leave a comment

Phil Jackson’s psyche jobs. Kobe Bryant’s fourth-quarter takeovers.

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The long arms of 7-footers Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum playing volleyball with every potential Thunder rebound. Ron Artest’s man-crush defense that smears hair dye all over Kevin Durant.

A crowd so celebrity-loaded that California First Lady Maria Shriver, of some note independent of Gov. Schwarzenegger, is relegated to the Staples Center’s second row. An alphabet soup media crush of ESPN, TNT, Yahoo, AOL and various Chinese derivatives.

Your Thunder comes home tonight, and here’s where the lads have been.

Playoff School.

There’s no NBA playoff baptism like games against the Lakers. No crash course in postseason intensity like game after game against the Ten Master. No preparation for the national glare like game after game against the El Segundo Aqueducts, the franchise of West and Wilt and Baylor and Jabbar and Magic and Shaq and Kobe.

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