RealClearSports: Lakers on the Freeway to Success

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

Ray Allen's jumper must have been stopped at security. He traveled from L.A. to Boston, but his shot wasn't allowed to board. Or knowing the airlines, maybe it was shipped to the Bahamas by mistake, with those suitcases which were supposed to go to Baltimore.

Is there a Bureau of Missing Baskets?

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RealClearSports: Celtics: A History of Agony for Lakers

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

They came from Minneapolis 50 years ago -- you think a team in southern California ever would be named "Lakers?'' -- and nobody seemed to care.

The big games played in L.A. in those days were not under a roof. As the Rivieras sang, people were out there having fun in the warm California sun. Not indoors.

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