What Should Lakers Play for 2011 Playoffs

The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Los Angeles , and now be the traditional strong team in the Western League. For the second round playoffs are coming, you may want to know more about the Lakers. Especially the last 5 years past.
2006-2007, at the time that season began, the Lakers played well but until there are a lot of players got injuries. Odom and Walton are serious injured. So after that, Lakers played so bad that they almost can not enter the playoffs. But they were easily defended by Suns, stopped at the first round.
2007-2008, Lakers accidently signed a new player in the mid-season with the tiny price of Brown and Mark, he is Pau Gasol, an all-star player. Coupled with the growing maturity of the young center "little shark" - Andrew Bynum, and super star Kobe Bryant stable performance. And with intelligent player Odom, The Lakers have the impact to the championship hopes. After the regular season, regular season MVP Kobe Bryant was elected. In the first round of playoffs, they beat Nuggets easily with 4-0. 4:2 beat Jazz which is the team of Deron - Williams and Carlos Boozer. 4:1 victory over last champion Spurs, and go smooth to the Finals. This time they was defeated by the historical enemy by 2:4, with the "Big Three" in the Celtics, with many experts were optimistic about the situation.
In 2008- 2009 season, all the team members played well and make the performance of 65 wins and 17 lose. In the All-Star contest, "OK" is elected as the MVP. For another time, they defeated Jazz with 4-1, but tried to beat Rockets. In the Western Finals, they beat Nuggets and went ahead for final games. Eventually, they 4 to 1 win over the Magic, winning the team in the history of 15th championship trophy, Kobe Bryant's first career harvest Finals MVP trophy.
2009-2010, Ron Artest joined Lakers, this greatly strengthen the small forward. They get 57 wins in the regular season, be first in Western League, third in the entire league. Faced with the Oklahoma City Thunder led by Durant, they were defeated by Thunder in the 4th game. They then bang, with Gasol tipped in the last lore, they are cut by 4 to 2. 3 consecutive years face the Utah Jazz playoff opponents, they showed no mercy, swept his opponent 4 to 0. In the Western Conference finals, they met old foe Phoenix Suns in the first 5 games, with Ron Artest's tipped lore, they are 4 to 2 victory over the Suns completed a vengeance. Entered Finals to face the Boston Celtics, this is the 12 times for this two teams meet in the finals in the historical battle. The Lakers before the disadvantage of 2 wins and 9 losses; and just the Celtics beat them two years ago. In the 7 games, Kobe Bryant lead the Lakers defeated Celtics with 4-3. Winning the team in the history of 16th championship trophy, Kobe Bryant's career harvests 2 Finals MVP trophies.
For the coming new 2011 playoffs season, the Lakers may meet a new strong team Heat, lead by Lebron James, Wade and Bosh. We hope Lakers will be good luck.
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